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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.
by Yanis Iqbal / April 4th, 2021
LulaBrazil’s political atmosphere is unstable. On 30 March, 2021, the commanders of the Brazilian army, navy and air force – Gen Edson Leal Pujol, Adm Ilques Barbosa and Lt-Brig Antônio Carlos Bermudez – resigned from their posts in a historic move not seen since 1977 during the country’s military dictatorship. According to an official notice by Brazil’s Ministry of Defense, “The decision was communicated in a meeting in the presence of the appointed Defense Minister, Braga Netto, former Defense Minister Fernando Azevedo, and the Commanders of the Armed Forces.”
Divisions in the Military
There are two reasons behind the resignations. First, the immediate trigger was the dismissal of defense minister General Fernando Azevedo e Silva. Azevedo wrote in his resignation letter that he had “preserved the armed forces as institutions of the state,” adding, “I leave in the certainty of a mission accomplished.” All this underlines h
Coronavirus Disease Weekly News 04April 2021
The news posted last week for the coronavirus 2019-nCoV (aka SARS-CoV-2), which produces COVID-19 disease, has been surveyed and some important articles are summarized here. The articles are more or less organized with general virus news and anecdotes first, then stories from around the US, followed by an increased number of items from other countries around the globe. Economic news related to COVID-19 is found here.
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There hasn t been much change in the trajectory of US Covid metrics: new cases continue to increase at a modest pace, while US Covid deaths continue to fall. New cases of Covid confirmed over the week ending April 3rd were 5.9% higher that those confirmed over the week ending March 27th, and 15.9% higher than those of the week ending March 20th, while US Covid deaths during the week ending April 3rd were 12.2% lower than
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.