Italy: At the foot of a village because of the price in Bolsonaro

THE President of Brazil, Zaich Bolsonaru, was honored by Municipality of Anguilla Veneta with the title of honorary citizen. The incident provoked reactions from his opponents who protested against the decision, while several residents were in favor.

The city of 4,000 inhabitants located near Venice, is the place of origin of his ancestors Bolsonarou. At the end of the 19th century, plagued by poverty, about a thousand inhabitants Anguilla Veneta, immigrated to Brazil. The ceremony took place in an elegant 17th-century villa, where the Brazilian politician dined with about 200 guests.

“I am just happy to be here. I think that seems so. My grandparents left here. “I am pleased to be surrounded by good people,” said the Brazilian president, according to the news agency. AGI. “It was God’s will for me to become President of Brazil. We are doing an excellent job that is definitely recognized by the people but not by the media “.

On Monday morning (1/11), about 200 people protested against the awarding of this honorary title to Brazilian President, the subject of much criticism in the international political scene both for its environmental policy and for the management of the Covid-19 pandemic that has killed more than 600,000 people in his country, in the second heaviest casualty in the world in absolute terms, after the USA.

People show placards in Italian reading “At the side of the Brazilian people. Bolsonaro out” in Anguillara Veneta, northern Italy, Monday, Nov. 1, 2021, as they await for the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to arrive in the town where his great-great-grandfather was born and where he was recently granted honorary citizenship . The decision by the mayor of Anguillara, Alessandra Buos, has sparked protests, in particular by Italian missionaries in Brazil. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

“Anguilla loves Brazil, but not Bolsonaro”

“It is right to visit the city where his family comes from, but not to be presented as a role model that one should follow by awarding him the title of honorary citizen,” he stressed in French Agency The Antonio Spanda, municipal councilor of the municipality controlled by its leadership Λέγκας, his anti-immigrant party Mateo Salvini which also controls the region Veneto.

Protesters had written “Bolsonaro out” on a large placard. Another stated: “Anguilla loves Brazil, but not Bolsonaro”. Supporters of the Brazilian president also traveled to the city. The number of them was smaller.

In the nearby Padua, police used water cannons to repel several hundred protesters Bolsonarou near the famous Basilica of Agios Antonios, which the Brazilian President was expected to visit late in the afternoon after closing the entrance to the public.

Ever since Bolsonarou took power in 2019, deforestation and devastating fires in Amazon have been launched as his government demands payment for the protection of its rainforest Amazon, 60% of which is located in Brazil and the preservation of which is vital to curb global warming.

THE Bolsonarou also decided to ignore the climate conference COP26 to go to Anguilla Veneta.

Accused by a committee of inquiry of the Brazilian Senate of “deliberately exposing” his compatriots to “mass infection” denying the severity of the health crisis, he is going to meet Mateo Salvini on Tuesday (2/11) at Tuscany.

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