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WORLD NEWS Thursday 20 February 2020

In this Feb. 12, 2020 photo, an archaeologist handles ancient
bones and vessels from a previous Inca culture that were dis-
covered by workers building a new natural gas line through the
Puente Piedra neighborhood of Lima, Peru.
Associated Press
Peru gas workers

unearth centuries of In this May 7, 2019 file photo, the press surrounds Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro after he signed a
second decree that eases gun restrictions at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil.
Associated Press
history in Lima's soil Bolsonaro repeats debunked

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO a metropolis whose rapid sexual comments about journalist
Associated Press growth over the past cen-
LIMA, Peru (AP) — For near- tury led to the destruction
ly two decades, workers for of many important sites. By DAVID BILLER and MAU- exchange for help with a same spot. "Is there any-
a company building gas Gas line worker Segundo RICIO SAVARESE story that triggered an in- one from Folha there? So I
lines across Peru's capital Chávez last year found the Associated Press vestigation of Bolsonaro's sexually attacked your re-
have found themselves un- body of a child inside a RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Bra- campaign by Brazil's top porter? OK. I don't want to
earthing a treasure trove of base — a burial character- zil's President Jair Bolsonaro electoral court. Her news- talk to you," he said before
history. istic of the pre-Incan Chan- repeated a debunked sex- paper quickly debunked walking away.
On one recent afternoon, cay people who flourished ually charged allegation the assertion by releasing The Brazilian Press Asso-
a team came across four from about 1200 to 1470 about one of the country's transcripts, screenshots and ciation issued a statement
burials accompanied by b— and he recalled how more prominent journalists recordings of their conver- calling Bolsonaro's com-
ceramics from a pre-Incan his shouts of discovery at- on Tuesday, drawing fire sations. ment cowardly and em-
civilization. Two years ear- tracted nearby residents from press freedom advo- Still, Bolsonaro echoed the barrassing to Brazilians.
lier, they found the bodies from their houses. cates and even some re- insinuation as he spoke out- "This misogynous behavior
of farmers who had been "It was an ancient burial, 80 cent allies. side the presidential resi- is undeserving of the office
among the first wave of centimeters deep," Chavez Bolsonaro referred to Pa- dence in Brasilia. of the President and an af-
Chinese immigrants in the said as he looked at two tricia Campos Mello, a "He talked about the jour- front to the Constitution,"
19th century. other recent discoveries reporter for newspaper nalist's harassment, hit- the statement said.
"Lima literally sits atop a cul- — still unrecovered — in a Folha de S.Paulo who last ting on him. She wanted Folha, issued a statement
tural bank," with one layer ditch in a street in the Pu- year won the International a scoop, she wanted to calling Bolsonaro's com-
of history atop another, ente Piedra neighborhood: Press Freedom Award after give a scoop, at any price, ment an attack to all pro-
said Alexis Solis, one of 40 bones of an adult in a huge coverage of his presiden- against me," Bolsonaro said fessional journalists. "He also
archaeologists who work vase and the those of a tial campaign. She'd also with a smile, using a Por- tars the dignity, the honor
for the Calidda national baby found with a ceramic been honored for earlier tuguese word for "scoop" and the decorum as stated
gas company that is install- figure of a "Cuchimilco," a reporting from the Middle that can have sexual con- by the law for the exercise
ing lines across the city. sort of guide through the East, U.S. and Africa. notations. That drew laughs of the presidency," the dai-
The cooperation is a step world of the dead in the A witness in a congressional from his supporters. ly added. Campos Mello
forward for preservation in Chancay culture.q hearing testified she had in- Hours later Bolsonaro spoke declined to comment on
sinuated an offer of sex in to journalists again at the Bolsonaro's insult. q