Brazil governor target of pandemic corruption probe
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Jun 2, 2021 at 11:28 am EDT
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) Brazil’s Federal Police searched the house and offices of Amazonas Gov. Wilson Lima on Wednesday, part of an operation into possible irregularities in the installation of a COVID-19 field hospital during the pandemic, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
The state’s health secretary and five other people were also targeted by temporary arrest warrants, the federal police said. All are suspected of profiteering from the health crisis at a time when Manaus, the biggest city in the Amazon rainforest, was the epicenter of the country’s pandemic.
January 20, 2021 at 1:51 pm
Once again, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has made his country seem weak in front of Israel by seeking help from the occupation state to tackle a national crisis, on this occasion the coronavirus pandemic. Despite the plaudits that Israel is receiving about its vaccination programme (which ignores the Palestinians whose lives it controls through its occupation), the government of Benjamin Netanyahu has faced domestic criticism for its handling of the crisis.
Nevertheless, Brazil has a shortage of oxygen cylinders in Amazonas State, so Bolsonaro has asked the Israeli ambassador for assistance. Speaking to
Jovem Pan Radio on 15 January, the Brazilian president said, I asked Yossi Shelley for help. We need emergency resources to combat Covid-19, such as oxygen cylinders; we are having difficulties providing them.