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Bolsonaro Targets Commission on Political Disappearances

Associated Press

   RIO DE JANEIRO - President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday removed several
   members of a commission investigating disappearances and murders during
   Brazil's dictatorship, acting days after they confronted him on the
   role played by the state in the killing of a leftist activist.

   A decree co-signed by Bolsonaro's human rights minister and published
   in official records announced the replacement of four of the
   commission's seven members, including its president, Eugenia Augusta
   Gonzaga.

   Bolsonaro has faced intense criticism, including from allies, this week
   after he questioned the circumstances in which Fernando Santa Cruz, a
   leftist activist during the 1964-1985 military regime and father of the
   current president of the Brazilian Bar Association, was slain.

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