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Jair Bolsonaro congratulates police on controversial operation leaving 28 dead in Rio favela

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The president of Brazil, ultra-conservative Jair Bolsonaro, on Sunday, May 9, congratulated the police for their questionable operation last Thursday in a favela in Rio de Janeiro that left 28 dead, amid serious allegations of abuses by the law enforcement agents.

In his social network posts, the president refused to treat as "victims" the 27 purported criminals who died in the operation, making it the most lethal in the history of Rio de Janeiro, according to human rights organizations.

Bolsonaro also took advantage of the brutal event, in which a police inspector was also killed . . .

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