<p>A judge in Brazil has barred the campaign of leftist presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from running an ad linking incumbent Jair Bolsonaro to cannibalism.</p>.<p>That ruling in the bizarre case comes as tensions mount, with a high-stakes second-round vote to pick Brazil's next president just three weeks away.</p>.<p>The Lula campaign spot was "out of context," Judge Paulo de Tarso Sanseverino of the Superior Electoral Tribunal said in a ruling Saturday.</p>.<p>The ad uses a video from 2016 when the far-right president, then a deputy, described for a New York Times interviewer what he said was a cannibalistic ritual practiced by the indigenous Yanomami community in northern Roraima state.</p>.<p>"They cook it for two or three days and they eat it with bananas," he said in an extract that went viral on Brazilian social networks.</p>.<p>"I wanted to see the Indian get cooked. And then they tell me: 'If you see it, you have to eat it.' I eat it!"</p>.<p>An off-camera narrator in the campaign ad then says: "After all the absurdities Brazil has heard from Bolsonaro, here's another, even more horrifying: he reveals that he would eat human flesh. Brazil can no longer put up with Bolsonaro."</p>.<p>Judge Sanseverino said the interview had been edited to change its original meaning, "suggesting that the candidate could accept the possibility of consuming human flesh in any circumstance."</p>.<p>A Yanomami leader, Junior Hekurari, has categorically denied that his culture practices cannibalistic rituals.</p>.<p>Lula himself on Saturday defended the ad.</p>.<p>"It wasn't the Lula campaign that said this, it was he who said it, to an American journalist," said Lula, Brazil's president from 2003 to 2010. "We're just informing the people."</p>.<p>Tension between the two camps has been building as the second-round vote, on October 30, approaches.</p>.<p>Bolsonaro told reporters Friday that Lula was a "drunkard" who wanted to lead Brazil with his "gang of incompetents."</p>.<p>The latest Datafolha survey, published Friday, puts Lula in the lead, by 53 per cent to 47 per cent.</p>
<p>A judge in Brazil has barred the campaign of leftist presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from running an ad linking incumbent Jair Bolsonaro to cannibalism.</p>.<p>That ruling in the bizarre case comes as tensions mount, with a high-stakes second-round vote to pick Brazil's next president just three weeks away.</p>.<p>The Lula campaign spot was "out of context," Judge Paulo de Tarso Sanseverino of the Superior Electoral Tribunal said in a ruling Saturday.</p>.<p>The ad uses a video from 2016 when the far-right president, then a deputy, described for a New York Times interviewer what he said was a cannibalistic ritual practiced by the indigenous Yanomami community in northern Roraima state.</p>.<p>"They cook it for two or three days and they eat it with bananas," he said in an extract that went viral on Brazilian social networks.</p>.<p>"I wanted to see the Indian get cooked. And then they tell me: 'If you see it, you have to eat it.' I eat it!"</p>.<p>An off-camera narrator in the campaign ad then says: "After all the absurdities Brazil has heard from Bolsonaro, here's another, even more horrifying: he reveals that he would eat human flesh. Brazil can no longer put up with Bolsonaro."</p>.<p>Judge Sanseverino said the interview had been edited to change its original meaning, "suggesting that the candidate could accept the possibility of consuming human flesh in any circumstance."</p>.<p>A Yanomami leader, Junior Hekurari, has categorically denied that his culture practices cannibalistic rituals.</p>.<p>Lula himself on Saturday defended the ad.</p>.<p>"It wasn't the Lula campaign that said this, it was he who said it, to an American journalist," said Lula, Brazil's president from 2003 to 2010. "We're just informing the people."</p>.<p>Tension between the two camps has been building as the second-round vote, on October 30, approaches.</p>.<p>Bolsonaro told reporters Friday that Lula was a "drunkard" who wanted to lead Brazil with his "gang of incompetents."</p>.<p>The latest Datafolha survey, published Friday, puts Lula in the lead, by 53 per cent to 47 per cent.</p>