President Jair Bolsonaro has cowardly attacked Brazilian Bar Association president Felipe Santa Cruz, saying he could "tell the truth" about how his father disappeared during the military dictatorship (1964-1985).
"One day, if the president of the OAB wants to know how his father disappeared during the military period, I tell him. He won't want to hear the truth," said the Brazilian president.
Felipe was only two years old when his father, Fernando Augusto de Santa Cruz Oliveira, a member of the Popular Action Group (AP), an organization opposed to the military regime in Brazil, was arrested by the government in 1974 and was never seen again. Fernando's body was never found.
The president's speech provoked a wave of protests from the most varied members of Brazilian civil society and the country's politics. São Paulo governor João Dória, who supported Bolsonaro during the presidential campaign in 2018, said the statement was "unacceptable".
Amnesty International's executive director, Jurema Werneck, repudiated this afternoon about the statement by President Jair Bolsonaro regarding the death of Fernando Augusto Santa Cruz de Oliveira, one of the missing politicians during the military dictatorship in Brazil. Fernando was the father of the current president of the Brazilian Bar Association, Felipe Santa Cruz.
The OAB itself issued a note of repudiation of Bolsonaro's statement about the entity's president's father.
The hashtag #AgoraFalaBolsonaro (Speak now Bolsonaro) is filled with messages stating that if the president knows what happened during the military dictatorship he has a statesman obligation to explain what happened to Fernando. Then, after the immense repercussion of the president's terrible speech, Bolsonaro ended by claiming that Fernando was killed by leftist militants.
However, an Air Force Report on the case of Fernando's death belies Bolsonaro. Thus, the president's phrase goes down in history as one of the most shameful moments of the Brazilian executive power.
There is even a death certificate for Fernando Augusto de Santa Cruz Oliveira. The document was issued by the Special Commission on Political Dead and Missing Persons, published to the Ministry of Women and Human Rights on a federal government website that Bolsonaro runs. Bolsonaro's speech, besides being abject, is also a liar.
There is even a death certificate for Fernando Augusto de Santa Cruz Oliveira. The document was issued by the Special Commission on Political Dead and Missing Persons, published to the Ministry of Women and Human Rights on a federal government website that Bolsonaro runs. Bolsonaro's speech, besides being abject, is also a liar.
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