Activist group calls for end of diplomatic relations with Brazil

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Radio New Zealand

about 1 hour ago

A group of activists who entered the Brazilian embassy as a protest against the country's new far-right president say their stance has prompted a vile hate campaign.

Organise Aotearoa, a socialist organisation formed late last year, sent about 10 activists into the Wellington embassy on Thursday.

It was the newly inaugurated President Jair Bolsonaro's first day in office.

The group say they stood in solidarity with the Brazilian people against Mr Bolsonaro, a divisive populist whose racist, homophobic and misogynistic comments have angered many.

Read more: https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/379499/activist-group-calls-for-end-of-diplomatic-relations-with-brazil

[ck4829]

1. K&R

[paleotn]

2. Excellent idea.

Hopefully more of the sane world follows suit as Bolsonaro shows he's 70's Brazilian Junta 2.0.

[EX500rider]

3. If we cut off all diplomatic relations with all countries who politics we don't like...

.....we'd have a lot less embassies. If he was properly elected then we have to live with it, we have embassies in far worst places.

[former9thward]

4. Do they want an end to diplomatic relations with China and Russia?

And a host of others? No, silence on that....

[oberliner]

5. This is New Zealand