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L. Coyote

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Fri Nov 17, 2017, 02:12 PM Nov 2017

Brazil's Donald Trump: Pinochet "should have killed more people.

https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Brazil-Far-Right-Presidential-Hopeful-Outlines-Platform-20171114-0022.html

Brazil: Far-Right Presidential Hopeful Outlines Platform
14 November 2017

Brazil's 2018 presidential hopeful, Jair Bolsonaro, a congressman representing the state of Rio de Janeiro, has spoken with the Financial Times about measures he would take for the "betterment" of Brazilian society.

If elected president, he said he would remove writer and philosopher Paulo Freire from public school curriculums, whom he described as "that horrible guy from the left."

During the audio-taped interview, he also took time to say that people enjoyed “total freedom" during the country's military dictatorship, which lasted from 1964-1984. He said Brazilians during this time "went to Disneyland and returned home.”

Alluding to ignoring cooperation with neighboring countries, Bolsonaro minced no words when affirming that he'd seek to build more partnerships, “namely, with the United States.”

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Brazil's Donald Trump: Pinochet "should have killed more people. (Original Post) L. Coyote Nov 2017 OP
He Seems Nice ProfessorGAC Nov 2017 #1
He certainly has Greenwald's vote! Blue_Tires Nov 2017 #2
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