Brazil's far-right presidential contender gets soft drink named after him
Drinks company names new energy drink Bolsomito after Jair Bolsonaro
Trump is doing an excellent job. That is the job we want in Brazil
Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
@domphillips
Sun 14 Jan 2018 05.00 EST
Brazils extreme rightwing presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro might not seem an obvious mascot for a fizzy drink: he has praised the countrys military dictatorship, said his children could never have been gay because they were too well-educated, and told a leftist lawmaker congresswoman that she was too ugly to be raped.
But a Brazilian company has named a new energy drink the Bolsomyth Bolsomito in Portuguese after the controversial Rio de Janeiro lawmaker.
Bolsonaro, a former army officer, is polling second after former president Luiz Inácio da Silva before Octobers election.
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The military dictatorship he defends imprisoned and tortured thousands of its opponents, including Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist guerrilla and Lulas successor as Workers party president. Hundreds more were executed or disappeared.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/14/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-energy-drink-bolsomito