Trump Hotel Goes Up in Rio, but His Views Barely Raise Eyebrows in Brazil

New York Times ^ | 20 Aug 2015 | SIMON ROMERO

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RIO DE JANEIRO — The Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa calls Donald J. Trump a “racist imbecile.” In Mexico, people are gleefully bashing Trump piñatas after his caustic remarks about Latino immigrants in the United States. In Guatemala, a liquor company is putting up posters of Mr. Trump using a term that, when translated charitably, describes him as a jackass.

Then there is Brazil, where Mr. Trump’s new 171-room stamp on the Rio de Janeiro skyline has generated so little uproar that his business partner feels perfectly comfortable trumpeting his contentious stance on immigration.

“I’m a Latin and I have to say, I didn’t get offended at all with his comments,” said Paulo Figueiredo Filho, 33, a Brazilian real estate mogul and self-described conservative libertarian who is building the lavish new Trump Hotel here. Continue reading the main story Related Coverage

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“I spend a lot of time in the U.S.,” Mr. Figueiredo added, “and I have seen a lot of illegal immigrants that are causing problems, causing trouble in the country, and I actually agree with him.”

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“It’s a privilege to have a Trump property in our city,” said Alfredo Lopes, the president of the city’s hotel association and the Rio Convention and Visitors Bureau, emphasizing that he had not paid much attention to the controversies surrounding Mr. Trump in the United States. “This project is a gift to Rio that will serve a very exclusive segment of the market.”................Good fro Rio

[Lexington Green]

Trump trumps your race card, senor.

[the OlLine Rebel]

More likely to get our conservative dollars. Those other pseudo-Latin places can GTH.

[Mr Apple]

“He is talking about a population they see as ‘the other.’ ”`

Tellin' it like is - that's Trump.
Go Trump Go

[demshateGod]

Trump would make a great president of Brazil.

[kingu]

Won’t someone at the NY Times be fired for quoting a Latin man supporting Trump and using the phrase illegal aliens?

[SpaceBar]

Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa...

Yeah, a regular Julian Schwinger or Richard Feynman./s

[hosepipe]

Mario Vargas Llosa calls Donald J. Trump a “racist imbecile.”

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Silly guy a liberal {maybe}ex-democrat a racist?...

A crony capitalist currently bewitching “conservatives” in United States a racist?...

A LIBERAL.... copying Ted Cruz’s ideas and spouting them as his OWN... a racist?...

TRUMP is just a COPY-CAT... with a HIDDEN AGENDA..
Setting himself up to become Americas first MUSSOLINI...

With STOLEN IDEAS from Ted Cruz that he NEVER intends to enact.. a Poseur... a PICK-POCKET..