Brazil's Bolsonaro cheered, jeered in Italian town for honor

ROME — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro arsenic some cheered and jeered arsenic helium arrived connected Monday successful a tiny bluish Italian municipality to person an honorary citizenship and to sojourn 1 of his ancestors’ homes.

Protesters successful Anguillara Veneta, a municipality of astir 4,200 adjacent Padua, chanted “No Bolsonaro” and held signs saying “Bolsonaro Out,” “Justice for the Amazon” and “No citizenship for dictators.” In contrast, jubilant supporters elsewhere wrapped themselves successful Brazilian flags and held yellowish and greenish balloons awaiting his arrival.

Anguillara Veneta’s right-wing mayor, Alessandra Buoso, defended the determination to assistance Bolsonaro citizenship and blasted vandals who spray-painted “Foro Bolsonaro” (“Bolsonaro Out”) connected the town’s metropolis hallway past week.

In a Facebook post, Buoso said the metropolis council’s determination to assistance Bolsonaro the grant was not a ballot connected his authorities but a designation of each the Italians who had emigrated to Brazil. But she said she was assuming the costs of the sojourn fixed the statement it had generated.

Bolsonaro was successful Italy to enactment successful the Group of 20 acme of the world’s biggest economies, which wrapped up Sunday successful Rome. He has been criticized for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and his Amazon policies.