Bolsonaro, who defeated Workers’ Party candidate Fernando Haddad in October, has praised Brazil’s former military dictatorship, which has been blamed for the disappearance and torture of hundreds of opponents, calling the regime “glorious” in 2015 and having said in 1993, “I am in favor of a dictatorship. We will never resolve serious national problems with this irresponsible democracy.” He also said Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who is considered responsible for at least 3,000 deaths, should have killed even more people.