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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, right, and his new Secretary of Government Army General Luiz Eduardo Ramos, attend Ramos' swearing-in ceremony at the Planalto Presidential Palace, in Brasilia, yesterday
BRAZIL’S armed forces have come under fire from Jewish groups after paying tribute to a nazi army officer for his achievements during the second world war.
Major Otto Maximilian von Westernhagen was described on Monday as a “friend of the nation” by the Army Command and Staff School of Brazil.
It said he was a “brilliant officer” who “was the commander of an armoured platoon on the eastern front on World War II.”
WILL PODMORE admires an account of the liberation of Berlin that overthrows the conventional US army-inspired account
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
