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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
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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