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Inspired by Trump, Bolsonaro is far worse

U.S. anthropologist Maxine L. Margolis looks at the similarities between the far right leaders Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, and how the Brazilian has gone beyond the chaos wrought by his North American idol. By Maxine L. Margolis “Disdain for women’s bodies and disdain for the earth are deeply connected. Both remind idiotic baby men […]

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CNN, Banking and Business Leaders Applaud Bolsonaro At Lavish Dinner

On 7th March 2021, hours after Brazil broke 4000 deaths per day from Covid-19, far-right president Jair Bolsonaro held a lavish dinner in São Paulo for business, banking and media leaders at which he sought to regain support of the corporate core which backed him at the 2018 election. Folha de S.Paulo reports that one […]

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AUTHORITARIANISM Coronavirus EDITORIAL

Genocide.

It will be assumed by many outside that to describe Brazil’s pandemic as genocide is an exaggeration. Unfortunately it isn’t. From suppressing vaccines to refusing Brazilian states and municipalities the right to implement lockdown measures, it is wrong for international media to report Bolsonaro’s Covid-19 catastrophe as mismanagement, incompetence, or “failure to act”, when it […]

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Coronavirus FOREIGN POLICY UNITED STATES

Lula to Biden: Convene Emergency Covid-19 Summit Now

In a March 17 interview with US news network CNN, Brazil’s former president Lula called on US President Joe Biden to convene a special emergency Covid-19 summit of G20 leaders with one purpose: to facilitate the vaccination of the whole world, not just wealthy nations. On March 14, Brasil Wire revealed that the previous US […]

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Coronavirus FOREIGN POLICY UNITED STATES

Fallout: US suppression of Russian vaccine in Brazil becomes diplomatic incident

On Sunday March 14 2021, Brasil Wire published an exclusive story on how the United States pressured its ally, Brazil’s Bolsonaro regime, into rejecting Sputnik V, the world’s first approved Covid-19 vaccine, developed by Russia’s Gamaleya institute. The story, by investigative journalist John McEvoy, was based on discovery of a report from the US Department […]

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Coronavirus FOREIGN POLICY UNITED STATES

Exclusive: Washington pressured Brazil not to buy ‘malign’ Russian vaccine

By John McEvoy As Brazil’s death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic nears 275,000, documents reveal that Washington pressured the Brazilian government not to buy Russia’s “malign” Sputnik V vaccine – a decision which may have costed many thousands of lives. Malign influences The US Department of Health and Human Services recently published its Annual Report […]

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“What if…”: Brazil’s Pandemic Without Bolsonaro

How would Brazilian handling of the Covid-19 pandemic have been different if Bolsonaro had never come to power? April 2018: Facing international outcry, denunciation at the UN, and the threat of economic retaliation from its principal trading partner, China, Brazil’s Armed Forces have abandoned their efforts to exclude former president Lula da Silva from the […]

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AUTHORITARIANISM Coronavirus

Quarter of a million dead: Calls for Bolsonaro to go chime louder

By Claudia Webbe MP At the end of last week, Brazil passed two devastating landmarks with regards to the Coronavirus pandemic. On the same day as the official death figures from Covid-19 passed 251,000 (this is the second highest in the world despite many people suggesting this total under-estimates the real figure) the largest country […]

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Missionaries spread disinfo and fear about vaccine to indigenous communities

By Nathalia Urban Indigenous communities are considered a priority group in vaccination against COVID-19 in Brazil, but due to the influence of missionaries some public health agents are facing hostility and even threats from some communities. In the race to guarantee the immunization of indigenous peoples, a logistics that implies difficulties such as facing long […]

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Bolsonaro Government “Refused Rival Covid Vaccines”

By Nathalia Urban The Bolsonaro government refused to buy various available vaccines against COVID-19, according an article published by Revista Piauí.  The federal government received three offers from the instituto Butantan, the main biological research center and vaccine producer in Brazil, located in São Paulo.  Butantan never received a response to the offer to supply […]