Bolsonaro irks Chile after personal attack on U.N.’s Bachelet

By Stephanie Nebehay, Gabriel Stargardter and Aislinn Laing GENEVA/RIO DE JANEIRO/SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro sparked friction with regional ally Chile on Wednesday after he accused its former leader Michelle Bachelet of meddling in his country's affairs by criticizing rising police violence and erosions of democracy. Bolsonaro, a far-right former army captain, reacted furiously to comments by Bachelet, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, who was tortured under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and was the first female Chilean president

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