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Brazil’s Bolsonaro praises 1973 military coup in Chile

By DIANE JEANTET Bolsonaro has repeatedly
Associated Press praised Brazil’s 1964-1985
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Bra- military regime.
zilian President Jair Bolson- Brazil’s national truth com-
aro criticized on Wednes- mission concluded in 2014
day U.N. human rights chief that at least 434 people
Michelle Bachelet, who were killed or disappeared
is from Chile, by praising in the hands of the state
that country’s 1973 military during the dictatorship. It
coup. is estimated that between
Bachelet “forgets that her 30,000 and 50,000 people
country is not Cuba only were illegally arrested and
thanks to the courage of tortured.
those who stopped the left In 2016, when voting to
in 1973,” Bolsonaro wrote impeach President Dilma
on his Facebook page, Rousseff, a victim of torture
adding that among the by the Brazilian military re-
communists that were de- gime, Bolsonaro dedicat-
feated then was her father. ed his vote to a colonel in
Bachelet’s father Alberto, charge of the torture unit.
an air force officer who op- “In memory of Col. Carlos
posed Gen. Augusto Pino- Alberto Brilhante Ustra, the
chet during the coup, was terror of Dilma Rousseff, I
imprisoned and tortured. Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro holds up a miniature of a KC-390 plane during the Brazilian Air vote yes,” Bolsonaro said.
He died in captivity in 1974. Force delivery ceremony of the first military aircraft KC-390, at the air base in Anapolis, Brazil, In Chile, several politicians
The president’s comments Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. came out in support of
came as the U.N. offi- Associated Press Bachelet, who was elected
cial and former Chilean ing summary executions” resulted in state agents into “Brazilian sovereignty” president twice.
president raised concerns and the “absence of ac- feeling “above the law and to those recently made Sen. Isabel Allende, daugh-
about an increasing rate of countability”. effectively able to kill with- by French President Em- ter of former president Sal-
killings by police in Brazil as Without naming the Brazil- out being held account- manuel Macron, who criti- vador Allende, ousted by
well as alleged restrictions ian president, Bachelet crit- able”. cized Brazil for its handling the 1973 military coup, said
on civil liberties. icized his wish to celebrate Bolsonaro says Brazil is dem- of the Amazon fires and the that French President Ma-
Speaking in Geneva, Bach- Brazil’s 1964 military coup ocratic and Bachelet’s re- country’s wider approach cron was right when saying
elet condemned a rise in as well as the denial of past marks amount to meddling to climate change and the that “the people of Brazil
police executions “amidst state crimes. in Brazil’s affairs. environment. do not deserve the Presi-
a public discourse legitimiz- An attitude, she said, that He compared her intrusion A former army captain, dent who has”.q

Maduro alerts Venezuela military, citing Colombian threat

By SCOTT SMITH former chief negotiator for planes that Guaidó said
Associated Press the Revolutionary Armed they use to transport drugs.
CARACAS, Venezuela Forces of Colombia an- He offered no details, such
(AP) — President Nicolas nounced in a video that he as who would collect the
Maduro ordered Venezu- would take up arms, alleg- satellite imagery.
ela’s military to hold ex- ing the Colombian govern- “We’ve seen recordings of
ercises along the border ment has failed to uphold a these groups showing off
with Colombia, accusing 2016 peace accord. their weapons,” Guaidó
the neighboring nation’s Duque and Guaidó — firm said.
president of plotting an at- allies backed by the U.S. “We’re facing a serious,
tack as tensions mounted administration — both ac- serious problem of Venezu-
Tuesday between the two cused Maduro of harbor- elan sovereignty.”
South American countries. ing leftist guerrillas in Ven- He urged Venezuela’s mili-
It was the latest salvo be- ezuela. tary to “immediately eject”
tween Maduro and Colom- Addressing his soldiers Tues- the “terrorist groups” from
bian President Ivan Duque, day night, Maduro ordered Venezuelan territory.
who have accused each Venezuela’s armed forces Maduro, who remains in
other in recent days of har- Venezuela’s opposition leader and self-proclaimed interim to be on alert and called power with backing from
boring militants. President of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, speaks to the press at for more than two weeks of the military and interna-
“Columbia’s government the administrative headquarters of the National Assembly in maneuvers to start Sept. 10. tional allies including Cuba,
doesn’t want peace,” Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019. The announcement came Russia and China, consid-
Maduro told a class of of- Associated Press hours after Guaidó said ers Guaidó a puppet of the
ficers in a nationally tele- cialist president with back- Guaidó, the leader of Ven- he has approved the use Trump administration.
vised military ceremony. ing from the United States, ezuela’s opposition-led Na- of satellites to hunt down Over the weekend, Mad-
“It wants war. It wants vio- Colombia and more than tional Assembly, says he is guerrillas crossing into Ven- uro’s chief spokesman ac-
lence.” 50 other nations. seeking to end Maduro’s ezuela from neighboring cused Duque of allowing
Friction escalated in recent Venezuela is locked in a “dictatorship” and argues Colombia. three paramilitary training
days amid a protracted crisis marked by hunger his re-election in 2018 was Collaboration has begun camps to operate in its ter-
struggle between Maduro and mass migration, which a fraud. between Venezuela’s op- ritory with the aim of taking
and Venezuelan opposi- critics blame on more than Animosity between Co- position and Colombian of- down Maduro, offering sat-
tion leader Juan Guaidó, two decades of socialist lombia and Venezuela ficials to collect intelligence ellite images to support the
who seeks to oust the so- mismanagement. flared last week when the on guerrilla camps and allegations.q