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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOver 4,000 people died in Brazil from Covid for the first time
yesterday.
Bolsonaro refuses to enforce lock downs and is bent on cancelling local regulations to reduce the spread of the virus.
Never put snake oil salesmen in charge of governement
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Over 4,000 people died in Brazil from Covid for the first time (Original Post)
malaise
Apr 2021
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progree
(10,889 posts)1. Reuters story: "'A biological Fukushima': Brazil COVID-19 deaths on track to pass worst of U.S. wave
'A biological Fukushima': Brazil COVID-19 deaths on track to pass worst of U.S. wave", Reuters, 4/6/21
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biological-fukushima-brazil-covid-19-225729667.html
malaise
(268,664 posts)2. Thanks for this
Madness
malaise
(268,664 posts)6. He should be locked up
More than a few world leaders should be in prison for this crime against humanity
dalton99a
(81,386 posts)4. One could call it a Japan virus
raccoon
(31,105 posts)3. I wish someone would overthrow Bolsonaro. Nt
malaise
(268,664 posts)7. Won't be long
Thought it would happen last week but I forgot Easter in those parts
dalton99a
(81,386 posts)8. Rather difficult without a popular uprising in Brasilia
Bolsonaros three sons from his first marriage, who are in their mid-thirties, are a central part of his political team. He calls them Zero One, Zero Two, and Zero Three. Flávio, the eldest, won a seat in the Senate last year. Carlos, who helped run his fathers campaign, is an alderman in the Rio city council. Eduardo, the youngest, is possibly the most extreme of the brothers. In the impeachment proceedings against Rousseff, he stood behind his father, mouthing along with his words as he cast his vote in the name of her torturer. A former federal policeman, Eduardo recently joined Steve Bannons far-right organization, the Movement, as its Latin America representative. (Bolsonaro also has a fourth son, Renan, a law student, from his second marriage, and a young daughter, Laura, with his current wife.)
Bolsonaros administration is heavily stocked with military leaders; eight of the twenty-two cabinet positions are filled by ex-generals. His ideas are informed by Olavo de Carvalho, a philosopher and a former astrologer who has attracted a following with eccentric interpretations of works by Machiavelli, Descartes, and others. Carvalho, seventy-one, lives in Richmond, Virginia, where he identifies with American redneck culture by hunting bears, smoking cigarettes, and drinking. Two current cabinet ministers were appointed on his recommendation: the education minister, Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez, a conservative theologian; and the foreign minister, Ernesto Araújo. Both subscribe to Carvalhos notions that cultural Marxism has contaminated Western society and that climate change is a Marxist plot. Carvalho lends a patina of intellectualism to Bolsonaros proposals; recently Carvalho told an interviewer that Brazils problem with violent crime might have been averted if the military regime had killed the right twenty thousand people.
Much of Bolsonaros political support comes from agribusiness, the arms industry, and the religious right, a nexus of power referred to as the Three Bsbeef, bullets, and Bibles. In Brasília, I met with Alberto Fraga, one of his oldest friends and a close political ally, who headed the bullet bloc in congress for two decades, until a recent conviction on bribery charges. (Fraga is appealing the decision.) In office, Bolsonaro had moved quickly to loosen gun laws, and Fraga, who was a police officer for twenty-eight years, was pleased that more people would be able to own weapons. (It was also good for business; the stock value of Taurus, Brazils largest gun manufacturer, has doubled since Bolsonaro secured his partys nomination.) Guns dont increase crime, Fraga said. Public policies do. He had forty-eight guns himself, he told me, shrugging: I like them.
Bolsonaro posits authoritarian violence as the way to solve Brazils crime problem. In one television interview, he said that officers who kill dozens of troublemakers need to be decorated, not prosecuted. His allies, like Trumps, at least feign exasperation at their leaders rhetorical excesses. Fraga told me, I think thats just him talking. We need to get him to control that. But these sorts of views are common among his loyalists. The newly elected governor of Rio de Janeiro state recently initiated a shoot to kill policy against armed criminals and recommended that police helicopters patrolling the favelas carry snipers to slaughter anyone openly carrying a weapon. In February, police officers in the Fallet-Fogueteiro favela killed thirteen young men, most of whom were reportedly executed after they had surrendered.
Bolsonaros administration is heavily stocked with military leaders; eight of the twenty-two cabinet positions are filled by ex-generals. His ideas are informed by Olavo de Carvalho, a philosopher and a former astrologer who has attracted a following with eccentric interpretations of works by Machiavelli, Descartes, and others. Carvalho, seventy-one, lives in Richmond, Virginia, where he identifies with American redneck culture by hunting bears, smoking cigarettes, and drinking. Two current cabinet ministers were appointed on his recommendation: the education minister, Ricardo Vélez Rodríguez, a conservative theologian; and the foreign minister, Ernesto Araújo. Both subscribe to Carvalhos notions that cultural Marxism has contaminated Western society and that climate change is a Marxist plot. Carvalho lends a patina of intellectualism to Bolsonaros proposals; recently Carvalho told an interviewer that Brazils problem with violent crime might have been averted if the military regime had killed the right twenty thousand people.
Much of Bolsonaros political support comes from agribusiness, the arms industry, and the religious right, a nexus of power referred to as the Three Bsbeef, bullets, and Bibles. In Brasília, I met with Alberto Fraga, one of his oldest friends and a close political ally, who headed the bullet bloc in congress for two decades, until a recent conviction on bribery charges. (Fraga is appealing the decision.) In office, Bolsonaro had moved quickly to loosen gun laws, and Fraga, who was a police officer for twenty-eight years, was pleased that more people would be able to own weapons. (It was also good for business; the stock value of Taurus, Brazils largest gun manufacturer, has doubled since Bolsonaro secured his partys nomination.) Guns dont increase crime, Fraga said. Public policies do. He had forty-eight guns himself, he told me, shrugging: I like them.
Bolsonaro posits authoritarian violence as the way to solve Brazils crime problem. In one television interview, he said that officers who kill dozens of troublemakers need to be decorated, not prosecuted. His allies, like Trumps, at least feign exasperation at their leaders rhetorical excesses. Fraga told me, I think thats just him talking. We need to get him to control that. But these sorts of views are common among his loyalists. The newly elected governor of Rio de Janeiro state recently initiated a shoot to kill policy against armed criminals and recommended that police helicopters patrolling the favelas carry snipers to slaughter anyone openly carrying a weapon. In February, police officers in the Fallet-Fogueteiro favela killed thirteen young men, most of whom were reportedly executed after they had surrendered.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/01/jair-bolsonaros-southern-strategy
malaise
(268,664 posts)10. So Trumpie!
Xoan
(25,311 posts)9. How many died from Covid for the second time?
ffr
(22,665 posts)11. AKA, where the USA would be had we not elected Biden/Harris and two GA senators
We'd be wallowing in out of control deaths with ANTI-DEMOCRACY conservatives putting hurdles in front of every bill to help save lives.
THANK YOU DEMOCRATS!
malaise
(268,664 posts)12. or why the US has so many deaths
because of Trumosonaro