Amnesty’s Brazil executive director, Jurema Werneck, noted that when Bolsonaro was elected, the organization warned of the risk that the far-right politician represented to human rights.Erika Guevara-Rosas, the Amnesty International Americas director, said Bolsonaro’s actions are a part of a worrying trend in the region.
“It is an extremely delicate time in the Americas,” she said, citing Central Americans in need of protection in the United States and leaders accused of promoting violence and persecuting opponents in Venezuela and Nicaragua. Bolsonaro’s ministry of women, family and human rights responded to Amnesty International, saying they wanted to promote dialogue with the NGO to show that the their statements weren’t true.
“There was no evidence that any of the accusations are based on data or concrete events,” the statement read. Also on Tuesday, governors from 13 of Brazil’s 26 states published a letter protesting the decree that Bolsonaro signed to loosen gun laws. The decree increases annual ammunition purchase limits and gives the right to carry a gun in public without permission for people ranging from the federal police to professions like truckers, elected politicians and journalists.
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