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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBolsonaro's 'genocidal' Covid response has led to Brazilian catastrophe, Dilma Rousseff says
(Guardian UK) Jair Bolsonaros perverse and genocidal response to one of the worlds deadliest Covid outbreaks has left Brazil adrift on an ocean of hunger and disease, the countrys former president Dilma Rousseff has claimed.
Speaking to the Guardian this week as Brazils coronavirus death toll hit devastating new heights, with more than 12,000 deaths in the last three days Rousseff said her country faced perhaps the gravest moment in its history.
We are living through an extremely dramatic situation in Brazil because we have no government, no stewardship of the crisis, said Rousseff, a former leftist guerrilla who was president for just over five years until her controversial 2016 impeachment.
We are seeing 4,200 deaths per day now and everything suggests that if nothing changes well reach 5,000 Yet there is an absolutely repulsive normalization of this reality under way. How can you normalize the 4,211 deaths registered [on Tuesday]? Rousseff asked as Brazils official death toll rose to over 345,000, second only to the US.
Brazils first female president, like a growing number of citizens, believes much of the blame lay with Bolsonaro, a far-right populist whose anti-scientific response to what he calls a little flu has made him an international bogeyman. Opinion polls and pot-banging protests suggest growing public anger at the Trump-admiring politician who was elected in 2018 after Rousseffs mentor, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was jailed and prevented from running by a judge who later joined Bolsonaros cabinet. ...........(more)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/10/brazil-bolsonaro-dilma-rousseff-coronavirus-crisis
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marmar
Apr 2021
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moondust
(20,006 posts)1. Depraved indifference.
No doubt Bolsonazi took some cues and amoral support from his depraved indifference pal "leading" the USA--with horrific consequences that will likely continue as long as he's there doing nothing.
bahboo
(16,355 posts)2. this asshole is a danger to all of humanity....
hope Brazil finds a way to get rid of him....