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From Rio de Janeiro

In his most violent – and most virulent – personal attack, Brazilian right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro has sharply criticized the former Chilean president and the current UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. # 39; man. He said that "who does not have to do it is trying to wind up in the Human Rights Chair".

These were two direct badaults yesterday morning. First on his Facebook page. Then you will address the journalists at the exit of the Palacio da Alvorada, presidential residence in Brasilia.

Not content to disqualify the former Chilean president, Bolsonaro praised Augusto Pinochet's coup d'etat in 1973 and criticized Michelle's father, Brigadier Alberto Bachelet, who died under torture in February 1974 to be opposed to the testimony of the constitutional president Salvador Allende. A year later, Michelle herself was imprisoned and tortured.

On Facebook, Bolsonaro – or his editor – said the following: "Michelle Bachelet, United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights, as a result of Macron's meddling policy" in domestic affairs and Brazilian sovereignty, Brazil attack on the agenda of human rights (bandits), attacking our precious civilian and military police. He also says that Brazil loses the democratic space, but forgets that his country is not Cuba thanks to those who had the courage to give enough left in 1973 and among these communists, his father, a brigadier at this time. Then, addressing reporters, he reiterated all this, congratulated Pinochet again and accused Michelle's father of "Communist".

This was the more than rude response to an interview in Geneva by the High Commissioner with a Brazilian journalist, in which he expressed his concern over a number of events in the country since the arrival of the ultra – right. to the presidency.

In her interview, and in cautious but harsh language, Michelle Bachelet said that Brazil was suffering from "a reduction of democratic space", with emphasis on attacks on conservationists and human rights. the man. He also spoke of the increase in the number of deaths caused by police officers, the biggest victims of which are blacks and villagers living in extreme poverty. After regretting "the public discourse legitimizing summary executions and impunity", he asked about the policy of facilitation of indiscriminate access to weapons, fiercely defended by Bolsonaro.

It has also spread to environmental aggression, focusing on denouncing attacks on indigenous peoples and violence in the countryside.

The attitude of Bolsonaro easily exceeds the limit of decency and dignity expected of every human being. By the way, this is not something unprecedented in his personal career. But now he is no longer a declbadified member of Parliament: he is president.

Since he has badumed and begun to commit abuses, Bolsonaro has created problems with, in alphabetical order, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Chile, Cuba, France, Iran, Israel, Paraguay, Norway and Venezuela.

About the United Nations Human Rights Commission, he said that it was a "club of communists" and other nonsense.

Never before, however, had it been as grossly mean and cowardly as today. A Bolsonaro in the pure state, an irreparably abject being. An unrecoverable being.