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24 Mar, 6 tweets, 2 min read
During today's hearing in Brazil's Senate, Bolsonaro's advisor for int'l affairs Filipe Martins (left) made a hand gesture that has come to be linked to white supremacist views, similar to that made by the terrorist of Christchurch (right) who killed 51 people in a mosque in 2019
Filipe Martins also uses a poem by Dylan Thomas, known by its first line, "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night", as his twitter profile background -- the same poem cited by the terrorist of Christchurch in his online manifesto.
The usage of the phrase in Martin's twitter profile has led to strong criticism from Brazil's diplomatic community after the Christchurch shooting in March 2019. Below an article on the matter in Folha de São Paulo:

www1.folha.uol.com.br/mundo/2019/04/…
Pacheco manda investigar assessor de Bolsonaro que fez gestos obscenos em sessão do Senado
www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/monica…
The day Steve Bannon, Trump's former advisor, was taken into custody, Martins posted a phrase in Latin associated to Combat 18, a British neo-Nazi terrorist organization.

Martins has also used an expression strongly associated to the Francoist dictatorship in Spain (between 1936 and 1975)

www1.folha.uol.com.br/mundo/2019/12/…

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