Page 5 - Corrupt System News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

And, famously, your former boss, mr bolsonaro, dismissed it as nothing more than the sniffles. and to this very day, he refuses to get a vaccination. it suggests to many brazilians that, from start to finish, he has completely failed to prioritise protecting his own people. that's not true. there are many questions there. first, most of the... almost all the authority in practice for dealing with the pandemic was transferred from the federal government to the state governments by decisions of the supreme court in brazil, which today acts as a de facto head of state in brazil. everything goes t...

Want to see that, but if you go and study brazil, in reality, you'll see what i mean when i say that we are up against a very strong, corrupt system and foreign policy during my tenure was an instrument to fight against that system, and our alliance with the united states was one of the instruments for that. we had shared values with the trump administration. we still have shared values with the biden administration, and i dealt with them and i still, in my term, had very good conversations with tony blinken, with john kerry, for example. do you want to see the world dominated by a country who...

Almost all the authority in practice for dealing with the pandemic was transferred from the federal government to the state governments by decisions of the supreme court in brazil, which today acts as a de facto head of state in brazil. everything goes to the supreme court, and they decide everything. and what the federal government did was to put together a huge system or huge mechanisms of helping the states, transferring money to the states, in order for them to open up more places in hospitals and things like that. and also, we had probably one of the largest, if not the largest mechanisms...

Bit of time to reflect, and with that reflection, do you now acknowledge that covid—19 and the handling of the pandemic has been a disaster for the bolsonaro government? no, not at all. what happened has been the weaponisation of covid and everything that came with it by all the forces that are against president bolsonaro's regional project of basically ending the kleptocracy, the system that has run brazil for a long time. so, those people want to keep the system, want to keep stealing, want to keep their network of bribes and corruption, and they used covid all along in order to weaken pre...

The beginning of the pandemic, and it has to do with the change in foreign policy that president bolsonaro undertook after i left under the pressure of that corrupt system. it's a strange way of looking at what has happened in brazil as a result of the pandemic, to accuse the opponents of mr bolsonaro of weaponising the pandemic. i mean, the pandemic, for brazilians, is a real fact. it has killed more than 600,000 people. millions and millions have been infected — and, famously, yourformer boss, mr bolsonaro, dismissed it as nothing more than the sniffles. and to this very day, he refuses to...