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Pablo Stefanoni.
The fracturing of Bolsonarismo is also linked to the return of former Workers’ Party president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to politics, following the Supreme Court’s annulment of corruption convictions against him.
What is behind the crisis in the military and, in your opinion, how deep is it?
It is important to remember that the armed forces are one of the pillars of the Bolsonaro government, together with the financial and agribusiness sectors. This is the social coalition that was behind the coup against former Workers Party president Dilma Rousseff.
The expectation was that Bolsonaro would carry out an ultra-neoliberal agenda and restore the armed forces’ image, which had been eroded since the dictatorship.
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A billboard with the image of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is seen vandalised with red paint and faeces as a protest of his management of the pandemic. Photograph: Getty POLITICS and the pandemic. Everywhere across the world the two are currently inextricably connected. But perhaps nowhere have they created the sort of “perfect storm” and potential catastrophe as the one bearing down on the giant Latin American country of Brazil right now. As I know from personal experience of travelling in the region, relocating the remains of people buried years ago is not uncommon in this part of the world.
Politics and the pandemic. Everywhere across the world the two are currently inextricably connected. But perhaps nowhere have they created the sort of “perfect storm” and potential catastrophe as the one bearing down on the giant Latin American country of Brazil. As I know from personal experience of travelling in the region, relocating the remains of people buried years ago is not uncommon in this part of the world. But that process has taken on a new urgency in Brazil where, in March alone, 66,570 people died of Covid-19, and daily fatalities in this vast country of 212 million people currently account for about one-quarter of the global total.
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