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Paraguayan Senator Is Impeached after Advocating Death of Brazilians
Paraguayo Cubas called farmers outlaws and assaulted police
Nov.29.2019 12:34PM
Fábio Zanini
SÃO PAULO
A Paraguayan senator suffered impeachment on Thursday (28) after the release of videos in which he defended the death of 100,000 Brazilians living in the country and attacked local police.
In a cell phone recording on Monday (25), Paraguayo Cubas, 57, addresses a group of people on a roadside in the town of Minga Porá, next to a truck loaded with timber.
He asks if the wood came from a "rapai" resort, an informal term used in Brazil to refer to Brazilians. With the affirmative answer, it begins to roar.
Paraguayo Cubas (FOTO: @senadopy no Twitter)
"Brazilian bandits, bandits! Invaders! Now deforesting the country," he shouts. "At least 100,000 Brazilians must be killed here," he continued, mentioning that 2 million Brazilians are living in the country. The Brazilian government estimates that there are 350 thousand.
More:
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/world/2019/11/paraguayan-senator-is-impeached-after-advocating-death-of-brazilians.shtml