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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

‘I’d eat an Indian’: rivals seize on unearthed Bolsonaro cannibalism boast

It was a shocking statement, even for a politician who has glorified torturers and called for rivals to be shot.

“I’d eat an Indian, no problem at all,” Jair Bolsonaro bragged to a foreign journalist in 2016, as he described a trip to an Indigenous community where he had purportedly been offered the chance to consume human flesh.

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