The president insinuated, in past statements, that young migrants sold their bodies in a poor neighborhood of Brasilia.
The comments of the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, regarding some Venezuelan adolescents, which generated discomfort in social networks, forced the president to carry out a live broadcast early this Sunday, where he accused the Workers’ Party (PT) of misrepresenting his words.
Last Friday, in a “podcast”, the Brazilian leader spoke regarding the life of Venezuelans in Brazil and recalled a visit he made to Sao Sebastiao, a poor neighborhood in Brasilia, in 2021, and met several adolescents between 14 and 15 years.
Bolsonaro said that “a climate” was created to interact with the young women, an expression with which, according to the press, he insinuated that the girls were prostituting themselves.
“I was in Brasilia, in the community of Sao Sebastiao, if I’m not mistaken, on a Saturday, on a motorcycle (…) I stopped the motorcycle on a corner, took off my helmet and looked at some girls, three, four, pretty, 14 , 15 years, arranged, ”he commented.
He continued: “I saw that they looked a bit alike. A climate was generated, I came back. ‘Can I come into your house?’ Among. There were regarding 15, 20 girls, on a Saturday morning, getting ready, all Venezuelans.”
And he asked: “Pretty girls, 14, 15 years old, getting ready on a Saturday, what for? To make a living?”.
“Do you want that for your daughter who is not listening here now? And how did she get to that point? With wrong decisions”, she commented in reference to the possibility that Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva, leader of the PT, wins the elections.
Bolsonaro, outraged
Less than two weeks before the second round of the presidential elections, Bolsonaro’s words were repudiated on social networks – many accused him of pedophilia – and among his opponents, which caused the president to intervene.
“The PT crossed all limits,” said Bolsonaro, who denounced that the opposition formation “meddles” in his private life and “does barbarities.” The president explained that he visited the home of the young women accompanied by other people and that his team published that meeting.
“I have always fought pedophilia, I have always opposed the Venezuelan regime, I accompany with pain the suffering of the families that left Venezuela for Brazil,” said Bolsonaro, who was outraged.
In a petition before the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), his campaign team denounced that the speech was “seriously out of context.”
The president of the TSE, Alexander de Moraes, determined that both Lula and other members of the PT remove from their networks the fragments in which Bolsonaro appears talking regarding young women, as well as any other content related to this issue.
In the midst of the controversy, the first debate between Lula and Bolsonaro was held on Sunday night before the ballot on October 30.
When arriving at the debate, the petista limited himself to saying that the president “acted in bad faith” with the girls. For his part, Bolsonaro criticized that he has been accused of a “cowardly and sordid way of practicing pedophilia.”
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