Bolsonaro tells students to read book by dictatorship-era torturer

Brazil’s president accused of ‘drinking from the sewers of history’ by recommending The Suffocated Truth

Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has prompted outrage after urging teenage students to read a book by a notorious dictatorship-era torturer accused of directing interrogations sessions where victims were were whipped, electrocuted and pounded with vine wood canes.

Bolsonaro, an outspoken fan of the 1964-1985 military regime during which hundreds of political opponents were murdered and thousands more tortured, met with students at the gates of the presidential palace in the capital Brasília on Monday.

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