Brazilian president says accuser’s comments are ‘lamentable’ and says responses towards her reveal ‘a degree of prejudice against women’Dilma Rousseff impeachment: what happens next in BrazilThe old-fashioned wounds and original divisions opened up by Brazil’s impeachment vote were evident on Tuesday when Dilma Rousseff said it was “lamentable” that one of her accusers had glorified the torture used against her and others during the dictatorship era.
The president was referring to Jair Bolsonaro,a rightwing lower house deputy, who dedicated his vote in favour of impeachment to Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ultra, or the colonel who headed the feared Doi-Codi torture unit in the 1970s.
Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com