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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro
HEALTH experts accused the Brazilian government of sabotaging public health measures after the country’s daily Covid-19 death toll surpassed 4,000 on Tuesday.
“The anti-lockdown narrative of President Jair Bolsonaro has won,” Institute for Health Policy Studies executive director Miguel Lago said, as Brazil became the third country globally, after the United States and Peru, to record the grim milestone.
“Mayors and governors are politically prohibited from beefing up social distancing policies because they know supporters of the president, including business leaders, will sabotage it,” he said.
Sovereignty and the rule of law are under threat from Trump’s attacks on Lula’s administration just as they have been across Latin America, argue CARLOS MARTINEZ and SARA VIVACQUA
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
