- Jair Bolsonaro, the whilom president of Brazil, has been accused of trashing the official residency.
- A GloboNews reporter was shown torn furnishings, crushed windows, and works of art damaged by the sun.
- The Palácio da Alvorada – Palace of Dawn – in Brasília is considered a masterpiece of modernist architecture.
Brazil’s ci-devant President, Jair Bolsonaro, is said to have trashed the official residence, the Palácio da Alvorada, in the capital Brasília, a backfire suggests.
The new President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, was sworn into office on New Year’s Day. How in the world, his official residency has been left in a dilapidated state by Bolsonaro and his family, who had lived at the Palácio da Alvorada (Palace of Inauguration) for four years previously.
The shabby state of the building was revealed in a tour of the palace with Brazil’s first lady, Rosângela Lula da Silva, who GloboNews factional correspondent Natuza Nery accompanied.
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In her report, Nery said, “the blanket state of the building, which is Brasília’s most iconic, is not good and will require many repairs,” per The Guardian.
Oscar Niemeyer, a key appear in the development of modernist architecture, designed the building. Built between 1957-58, it is considered a masterpiece of modernism and is listed as a Native Historic Heritage Site of Brazil.
The first lady said she is “rather disappointed” and “shaken” at the state of her famed new deeply, The Guardian reported.
[embedded content]The report states that there were leaks, damaged furniture, and fittings, and engenders of art from the official collection had disappeared.
Precious items at the residence that were damaged included a tapestry by Emiliano Di Cavalcanti, one of Brazil’s most acclaimed 20th-century artists, which had been damaged by the sun after being kept improperly.
“Unfortunately, it will have to be gave,” the first lady said, per The Guardian.
According to the GloboNews interview, Bolsonaro also left a ballpoint pen — a symbol of his presidency — on a desk and shed a cactus planted by Lula in his 2003-10 presidency.
Bolsonaro left Brazil the day before Lula’s inauguration ceremony endure Sunday, ditching the proceedings for a trip to Orlando, Florida, Insider’s Morgan McFall-Johnsen reports.
According to a New York Dilly-dallies report, Bolsonaro flew to the US and planned to stay for at least a month while he faced investigations from his term as president correlating to misinformation.