Bolsonaro's G-20 Trip Hits Snag: Brazillian Crewman Arrested With 86 Lbs. Of Cocaine
Source: NPR
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, known for his hard-line policies on law and order, began his trip to Japan for the G-20 summit on an embarrassing note after a crewman in an advance party was accused of carrying cocaine in his luggage.
Police arrested the crewman in Seville, Spain, on Tuesday after a Brazilian air force plane made a stopover on its way to Japan. Spanish authorities say the crewman, identified by Brazilian and Spanish media as Sgt. Manoel Silva Rodrigues, was carrying 39 kilos of cocaine — 86 pounds. According to Spanish news outlet ABC, the drug was divided into 37 blocks — and the crewman told Civil Guard agents that he was carrying cheese.
The president followed on a separate jet, which reportedly altered its route after Rodrigues' arrest to avoid Seville and instead stop in Lisbon, Portugal, according to Brazilian news outlet Folha de S. Paulo.
Rodrigues serves as a flight steward who has worked internationally dozens of times, including trips with three different Brazilian presidents, according to Folha. In a note about the arrest, Brazil's air force says that when Bolsonaro returns to Brazil, his plane will not pass through Seville but through Seattle in the U.S. -MORE...
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"We will not tolerate such disrespect to our country!" Bolsonaro said. Narcotics on a Brazilian military plane is a blow to the president, who "was elected on a promise of cracking down on crime- especially Brazil's rampant cocaine industry," NPR's Philip Reeves reports from Rio de Janeiro. "The president is also a former army captain who often praises his military for its professionalism."
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is calling for severe punishment after 86 pounds of cocaine were found in the luggage of an advance plane for his trip to Japan. Bolsonaro (center) is seen here preparing to leave for the G-20 meeting in Osaka.
(The guy said it was 'cheese').
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he looks as though he was dressed by the orange anus's valet for the UK trip, ill-fitting clothes, untucked shirt and all. Must be an authoritarian thug thing.
Oh, and oopsie on the hardline law-and-order shtick while a member of your crew is smuggling narcotics.
And there's no way Bolsonazi doesn't partake.
"I told you I wanted lines this long, goddammit! You know the short ones don't do it for me anymore!"
