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Jair Bolsonaro: The President Who Promised to Kill 30,000 People

Behind the Bastards

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Revisionist History - Jay Bolsonaro

Jayar Bolsonaro was a mid-level officer in the Brazilian army. In 1986, he wrote a column complaining that soldier's salaries were too low. He presented himself as a defender of rancor soldiers who were suffering during hyperinflation after military dictatorship collapsed. Almost immediately he said publicly, quote, I am in favor of a dictatorship.

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