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turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
Wed Jan 2, 2019, 02:13 PM Jan 2019

Pompeo attends the inauguration of Brazil's anti-migrant, homophobic president

Source: Think Progress

It appears to be the first inauguration attended by the secretary of state.
D. PARVAZ
JAN 2, 2019, 12:48 PM

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday attended the inauguration of Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro. Pompeo joined other populist leaders, including Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, in optics that only further support the notion that the United States is running in the same circles as some of the world’s most hardline, anti-democratic circles.

Pompeo’s presence was no small thing to Boslonaro, who retweeted the secretary on Wednesday.

Pompeo and his Brazilian counterpart, Ernesto Araujo, held a press briefing on Wednesday, during which Reuters asked Pompeo about the concern among the Brazil’s civil society about “a possible loss of protection for human rights under this new government.”

Pompeo allowed Araujo to speak first — Araujo said there is “no reason at all” to fear an attack on human rights — and then added that the United States is committed to human rights.

Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/pompeo-attends-the-inauguration-of-brazils-anti-migrant-homophobic-president-b3be8fe38f0b/



Hey Araujo your as much as an ass has that doofus from the US, did he by some chance tell you what his fucking administration did at Standing Rock People...................FUCK YOU and FUCK HIM and FUCK the other assholes that attended this shit show...................human rights my ass, fucking propagandists ........................
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Pompeo attends the inauguration of Brazil's anti-migrant, homophobic president (Original Post) turbinetree Jan 2019 OP
Sad and disgusting. BlueJac Jan 2019 #1
He is on a mission to Iliyah Jan 2019 #2
Yepper, spot on................. turbinetree Jan 2019 #3

turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
3. Yepper, spot on.................
Wed Jan 2, 2019, 02:22 PM
Jan 2019

They are using the same play book that was used in Chile in the 1970's exactly the same one that James Buchanan wrote papers on and backed by the Koch's........................

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/19/despot-disguise-democracy-james-mcgill-buchanan-totalitarian-capitalism

This is a excellent read .................

Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America

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