As Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro prepares to meet Donald Trump, his family’s close ties to notorious paramilitary gangs draw scrutiny and outrage
Brazil’s
President Jair Bolsonaro is in Washington to meet U.S. President
Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday. While the trip officially
is focused on the joint efforts of the U.S. and Brazil to change the
government of Venezuela, it is being billed by the Bolsonaro
government as a “restart” of his presidency and image after
multiple, serious scandals crippled the first three months of his
presidency.
But when
it comes to recreating his image, the timing of this trip could
hardly be worse.
Key news
events of the last several weeks — including the arrests of two
former Rio de Janeiro police officers for the March 2018
assassination of Rio City Council Councilor Marielle Franco — have
highlighted the most damaging and, to many, most terrifying
revelations about Bolsonaro and his three politician sons: their
extensive, direct, multilayered, and deeply personal ties to the
paramilitary gangs and militias responsible for Brazil’s most
horrific violence.
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