BRAZIL
Family Values
Allegations swirling around the son of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro overshadowed his efforts to sound the death knell for the left in Latin America in his international debut in Davos for the World Economic Forum on Tuesday.
Already the target of corruption allegations, Flávio Bolsonaro now faces claims from O Globo, a leading Brazilian newspaper, that he previously employed both the mother and wife of the alleged leader of a Rio de Janeiro death squad called the Escritório do Crime (The Crime Bureau), the UK’s Guardian newspaper reported.
The Crime Bureau is suspected in the unsolved murder of Rio city councilor Marielle Franco in March last year.
While Flávio Bolsonaro rejected the report and earlier questions about his financial dealings as part of “a defamation campaign,” the media focus has tarnished the new president’s image as a crusader against graft and other crime.
In Davos, Jair Bolsonaro – who does enjoy a relatively clean reputation in Brazil — delivered an unusually short six-minute speech in which he promised “to govern by example.”
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