Meet the new boss same as the old boss

Brazil’s military dictatorship leaves a paper trail in the CIA archives

The leading candidate for the Brazilian presidency promotes the same state-sponsored repression that the Agency supported for years in Latin America

On October 28th, polls show Brazil will likely elect a candidate who openly praises the country’s military dictatorship - the period from 1964 to 1985 marked by censorship, extrajudicial killings, and torture of political opponents. Former army captain Jair Bolsonaro is not subtle in his pining for a time when Brazil was governed by force and ruled by fear, especially for leftists, Afro-Brazilians, and the poor.

In 2016 while a representative in the Brazilian Congress, Bolsonaro dedicated his vote to open impeachment proceedings against then-president Dilma Rousseff to Alberto Brilhante Ustra, the Brazilian intelligence officer responsible for the torture of hundreds of leftists, including Rousseff herself. Bolsonaro’s statements leave little doubt as to his stance on the subject:

“I’m pro-torture, and the people are too.”

“You won’t change anything thing in this country through voting - nothing, absolutely nothing. Unfortunately, you’ll only change things by having a civil war and doing the work the military regime didn’t do. Killing 30,000 starting with FHC [former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso]. Killing. If a few innocent people die, that’s alright.”

“The dictatorship’s mistake was just torturing and not killing.”

Bolsonaro’s promises to purge leftists and instruct the police to kill indiscriminately have gained him massive traction in a Brazil that saw 63,000 violent deaths last year and that is mired in economic crisis that many attribute to years of corruption in the center-left Worker’s Party. (The reality, as always, isn’t so simple). Bolsonaro has garnered endorsements from the Klu Klux Klan, international condemnation, and scores of ‘meet the Brazilian Trump’ reports in American media.

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2018/oct/24/cia-brazil-piece/

UK said Assange would not be extradited: Ecuador’s top attorney

QUITO (Reuters) - The United Kingdom told Ecuador in August that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would not be extradited if he left the country's London embassy, where he has lived under asylum since 2012, Ecuador's top government attorney said on Thursday.

In a written response to queries from Ecuador, the UK explained that it had not received any extradition request, and said Assange's jail time in the UK for violating bail terms by seeking refuge in the embassy would not exceed six months, Iñigo Salvador, who represents the Ecuadorean government in court proceedings, told reporters.

Salvador said Ecuador passed on the UK's response to Assange's lawyers, but noted that if Assange stayed in the embassy Ecuador would put new conditions on his stay.

http://www.foreigndesknews.com/news/politics/uk-said-assange-would/