Bolsonaro insists in being honored in the US: this time possibly in Texas

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Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro is considering travelling to the United States to be honoured at an event in Texas next week, his spokesman said on Monday, just days after he cancelled a heavily criticized visit to New York City. Read full article

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“The Honour” explicitly financed by the Brazilian Tax-Payers - OF COURSE - in return of additional taxes!
May 07th, 2019 - 11:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Terence Hill
Hmm who said this first, by golly gosh it was me.
May 4, 2019
”The American Association of Jurists (AAJ), ... has published a statement recognising former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as a political prisoner.
Lula’s sentence “was issued as a consequence of an accusation produced by violating the due process of law, that prejudiced (his) right to a defence, and without evidence,” the AJJ said Thursday and pointed out that Brazilian far-right politicians, “benefited in the elections while Lula da Silva was isolated (in prison) as a presidential candidate and had the broadest popularity in the electoral polls.”
“Such conditions demonstrate a detention that was made by violating fundamental guarantees, endorsing clearly political motivations, lacking connection with a properly and well defined offense, and having a duration and accessory penalties which are aimed at both moving Lula da Silva away from the national political process and laying foundations to discriminate against people endorsing different ideological tendencies through irregular procedures,” the AAJ explained.
According to the Council of Europe’s jurisprudence, this makes Lula a political prisoner. His current situation could also be described as a case of “Prisoner of Conscience”, affirms the AAJ.”
https://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rio-politics/national-politics/lula-is-political-prisoner-says-american-association-of-jurists/
May 07th, 2019 - 04:08 pm - Link - Report abuse -1
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Chicureo
He'll certainly be far more welcomed in Texas! There will be also plenty of enraged social social justice warriors to protest this...
Someone please explain why the left has not lost almost all their credibility?
May 07th, 2019 - 05:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Terence Hill
Chicureo the flamer
“Someone please explain ...” Apparently not so, by those who know best.
May 4, 2019
”The American Association of Jurists (AAJ), ... has published a statement recognising former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as a political prisoner.
Lula’s sentence “was issued as a consequence of an accusation produced by violating the due process of law, that prejudiced (his) right to a defence, and without evidence,” the AJJ said Thursday and pointed out that Brazilian far-right politicians, “benefited in the elections while Lula da Silva was isolated (in prison) as a presidential candidate and had the broadest popularity in the electoral polls.”
“Such conditions demonstrate a detention that was made by violating fundamental guarantees, endorsing clearly political motivations, lacking connection with a properly and well defined offense, and having a duration and accessory penalties which are aimed at both moving Lula da Silva away from the national political process and laying foundations to discriminate against people endorsing different ideological tendencies through irregular procedures,” the AAJ explained.
According to the Council of Europe’s jurisprudence, this makes Lula a political prisoner. His current situation could also be described as a case of “Prisoner of Conscience”, affirms the AAJ.”
https://riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/rio-politics/national-politics/lula-is-political-prisoner-says-american-association-of-jurists/
May 07th, 2019 - 07:16 pm - Link - Report abuse -1
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Chicureo
Because the right somehow manage to be even worse.
May 07th, 2019 - 09:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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REF: “honored at an event in Texas”:

Hopefully, there may be lesser rotten eggs/tomatoes available for a grand welcome!
May 08th, 2019 - 12:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Terence Hill
”Brazil’s president resurrects the zombie claim that Nazism was a leftist movement
By Elyse Samuels May 7, 2919
There is no doubt. Socialist party, how is it? Germany’s National Socialist Party.
— Jair Bolsonaro, president of Brazil, April 2, 2019
Yad Vashem’s website states that Nazism in fact grew out of radical right-wing groups. Once the Nazis gained power in Germany, they arrested and in many cases murdered socialists, communists and others who opposed the party.
Historians widely rebuff the notion that Nazism is a leftist movement. Deborah E. Lipstadt, a professor of modern Jewish history and Holocaust studies at Emory College, called it a “ludicrous idea that deserves to be discredited.”
“It’s a form of rewriting history for political purposes,” Lipstadt said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/07/brazils-president-resurrects-zombie-claim-that-nazism-was-leftist-movement/?utm_term=.ddb09b3e6b67
It's hard to tell who is the dumber Bolsonaro who makes Trump look like a genius by comparison. Or Moro the moron who frequently mispronounces elementary Portuguese.
May 08th, 2019 - 02:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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@Terence Hill

REF: “It's hard to tell..................elementary Portuguese”:

PLEASE calm-down - the RIGHT solution is just around the corner
https://i2.wp.com/www.humorpolitico.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/olavo_de_carvalho_deus.jpg?w=640&ssl=1
May 09th, 2019 - 10:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Terence Hill
Jack Bauer aka Proof-less and Truth-less“
”He does not expect Bolsonaro in Texas
The mayor of Dallas, in the United States, is pro-refugees, against guns” Looks like folks are assembling a warm greeting to commemorate his visit, according to this site.
https://www.conversaafiada.com.br/politica/ele-nao-espera-bolsonaro-no-texas
May 09th, 2019 - 12:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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@Terence Hill

REF: “folks are assembling a warm greeting to commemorate his visit”:

Is the throwing of old shoes is getting back into fashion? Bush MUST be missing THAT glorious day when he missed one & unfortunately couldn't catch it by his face!!
May 10th, 2019 - 04:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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