Covid denialist and Bolsonaro ally Olavo de Carvalho died of virus, says daughter
Source: The Guardian
Covid denialist and Bolsonaro ally Olavo de Carvalho died of virus, says daughter
Rightwing radical was a towering figure in Brazil who was adored and abhorred in equal measure by millions of followers and foes
Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Tue 25 Jan 2022 16.25 GMT
Olavo de Carvalho, the coronavirus-denying mentor of Jair Bolsonaro and Brazil’s radical right, has died in the United States, with one of his children citing Covid-19 as the cause.
“The family … asks for prayers for the professor’s soul,” relatives said on Twitter after announcing the death of the 74-year-old polemicist – a towering figure in contemporary Brazilian politics who was adored and abhorred in equal measure by millions of followers and foes.
The statement did not say how Carvalho – a former astrologer who repeatedly trivialized Covid as the “moronavirus” – had died. However, his estranged daughter, Heloísa de Carvalho, said coronavirus was the cause.
“He has blood on his hands,” she told the magazine Veja, blaming her father’s “denialist ideas” and dissemination of fake news for the Brazilian government’s delay in purchasing Covid vaccines. “But I do not celebrate his death.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/25/covid-denialist-bolsonaro-ally-olavo-de-carvalho-dies-coronavirus
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