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Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Bolsonaro faces hard scrutiny over military’s purchase of penile implants

Jair Bolsonaro in Brasília on 12 April.
Jair Bolsonaro in Brasília on 12 April. Photograph: Adriano Machado/Reuters

Further questions have been raised about military spending on impotence treatments under Jair Bolsonaro after allegations Brazil’s defense ministry had approved the purchase of penile implants costing more than half a million pounds.

Those claims followed revelations on Monday that the armed forces had forked out for more than 35,000 Viagra pills in what one leading opposition politician called an erectile “outrage”.

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