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Globo’s news portal G1 exclusively announces that records indicate the death toll is 173% higher than that announced by the government.
According to journalist Helio Gurovitz, a columnist at G1, in the municipalities most affected by Covid-19, the crucial indicator for epidemiologists, all-cause mortality, has skyrocketed from the start of the pandemic until the end of April.
According to the survey, the number of deaths increased by 30% in the 5 cities most affected by the coronavirus.
“The deaths in the five Brazilian cities most affected by Covid-19 totaled at least 26,445 from the start of the pandemic to April 25, an increase of 30% over the average of previous years, from 20,384 during the same weeks.” writes the writer, editorial director of Época magazine for 9 years.
Officially, Brazil has 7,343 deaths and 108,266 confirmed cases of new coronaviruses this Monday (4). The data is from the Ministry of Health.
By the Globo / G1 parallel count, due to under-registration, Brazil today has 20,000 deaths and 295,000 cases of the disease.
If the calculation is correct, the number of Covid-19 cases in Brazil will skyrocket and it will be second in the world ranking, only behind the United States.
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It was in the New York Times: Bolsonaro is nervous about the coronavirus pandemic
The New York Times, the world’s largest newspaper, said on Friday (1) that Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is fighting for political survival, using trained military personnel. According to the publication, he is a weak leader and gave Brazil’s generals an opportunity to insert themselves into power.
The newspaper portrays that Jair Bolsonaro came to the Brazilian Presidency promising to end corruption, stimulate the economy and end the notorious filth in the country’s politics.
“What a difference 16 months make”, the journalists sigh Ernesto Londoño, Letícia Casado and Manuela Andreoni, authors of the text for the NYT.
The report says the president was hit by a torrent of investigations into him and his family. “A free-falling economy and criticism of the chivalrous management of one of the fastest growing coronavirus epidemics in the world, Bolsonaro is fighting for political survival.”
“Now, with the impeachment lawsuit intensified, he is being accompanied by an ever-smaller group of leaders who are gaining enormous power as their problems multiply.”
For the NYT, Bolsonaro has become increasingly dependent on a cadre of military elders, entrusting them with the greatest power they have had since the military dictatorship ended in the 1980s.
“And despite his first promises to clean up politics, he became highly dependent on career politicians [a exemplo do Centrão], including several who have been hurt by corruption allegations, who are eager to extract favors from a struggling leader. This could give them control over billions of dollars in public spending, as the country enters a severe recession, “write the three journalists.
The impression of the American newspaper is that there is an atmosphere of the end of the fair in the Bolsonaro government, which hangs on the coronavirus pandemic.
“The pandemic left Bolsonaro especially vulnerable. Brazil is fast becoming a global hot spot and this week has exceeded the number of deaths reported by China. However, the president continues to resist calls for stricter quarantines and shows little empathy for the more than 6,300 Brazilians who have died, drawing widespread criticism that he has been reckless and callous. “
“So what? Sorry, but what do you want me to do? He said this week about the rising death toll, before making a joke about his middle name.” My name is Messiah, but I can’t do miracles. “
Her problems go far beyond the virus, recalls the NYT. Bolsonaro’s presidency had been fighting for weeks, and then triggered an unexpected political crisis last week.
He fired the chief of the federal police and the reaction was fierce. Justice Minister Sergio Moro, the most popular cabinet member, resigned in protest. In an extraordinary bid for farewell, Moro accused the president of trying to obstruct justice by placing a subordinate official in charge of an agency investigating several of his allies, including one of Bolsonaro’s sons.
This prompted the Supreme Court to open an investigation into Bolsonaro’s actions and block the appointment of a new chief of the Federal Police. Bolsonaro reacted defiantly, saying that he had not abandoned the “dream” of having a family friend in charge of the police force, increasing the possibility of an institutional shock.
The president’s resignation and impeachment demands are gaining momentum in Congress, where the opposition without leaders and disparities lacks a clear plan to overthrow him. Still, lawmakers and the Supreme Court are leaving Bolsonaro with little room to maneuver.
“It is illusory to think that it is not linked to the Constitution,” said Randolfe Rodrigues, a prominent opposition senator. “I hope you begin to discover that you are subject to the rule of law.”
The president’s office declined interviews this week. But as Bolsonaro became radioactive to much of the capital’s political establishment, Brasilia, diplomats and political scientists began to guess how much unrest the generals in chief positions would tolerate.
The Bolsonaro era gave Brazil’s generals an opportunity to reenter the front lines of politics, a role they played during the country’s 21-year military dictatorship, which ended in 1985.
Currently, active and former military officers occupy nine of the 22 cabinet posts, including three that operate outside the presidential palace. These positions gave Brazil broad military authority on issues such as fiscal policy, development in the Amazon, and response to the pandemic.
“I think this is the best government team we have had in the last 30 years, by far,” said General Paulo Chagas, who applied for a position but is not in government, he said in an interview. “However, the government’s vulnerability is its own leader, who always gives ammunition to his opponents.”
As the chaos overtakes Bolsonaro’s presidency, speculations that his vice president, General Hamilton Mourão, is preparing to take office, are full of memes and behind-the-scenes conversations. Mourão sometimes seems to like pandemonium.
Shortly after Bolsonaro fired his health minister on April 17, after complaining about strong support for the minister’s social distance measures, the vice president smiled when he told reporters: “Everything is under control: we just don’t know who “
Amy Erica Smith, a political scientist at Iowa State University, specialized in Brazil, said that the generals who linked her plot with Bolsonaro should now be concerned about their personal reputation and the image of the military as guarantors of order.
“The crisis we are facing increases the threat that the military will decide that civilian leadership is not effective and decide to take control,” he said. “It seems clear that the military continues to have this idea of themselves as a guardian force in politics.”
Political analysts say a conventional military takeover is unthinkable in Brazil today, given the strength of Congress, the courts, civil society, and the press. Smith said, however, that the generals could make Bolsonaro a leading figure or tacitly support efforts to impeach him, leaving Mourão in control.
The sudden possibility of a new presidential deposition four years after President Dilma Rousseff’s tumultuous indictment stirred policy in Brasilia, where lawmakers filed at least 29 impeachment petitions against Bolsonaro.
Bolsonaro is the rare president without a political party, breaking ranks with what brought him to power last November. Despite spending nearly three decades in Congress, he made no effort to build a government coalition in Brazil’s multi-party legislature.
This led a group of center and center-right parties, informally known as the center, to demand lucrative and influential government positions in exchange for protecting them from impeachment.
Roberto Jefferson, a former congressman in Congress who admitted to having played a leading role in a bribery scheme in 2005, said Bolsonaro’s political survival now depends on deals with energy agents at the center, many of which have also been tainted . for allegations of corruption.
“Each party has its sinners,” Jefferson said in an interview. “Who is a saint in that kingdom?”
The jobs the center’s leaders are seeking would give their parties discretion in the billions of dollars.
The centão’s emerging alliance with Bolsonaro would also give its members significant influence over a massive spending plan on public infrastructure announced by a military member of the government in an effort to create jobs. The economy is expected to contract between 5% and 9% this year.
Political analysts see these plans as anathema to Bolsonaro’s austerity goals and his commitment to break with the type of horse trade that has caused surprising levels of corruption in the past.
Moro, a former federal judge who became the most visible figure in a national crackdown on corruption that began in 2014, says he no longer believes the government is committed to eradicating corruption.
“I agreed to join the Bolsonaro government to strengthen the fight against corruption,” he said in a text message to the New York Times. “I gave up when I concluded that I couldn’t move forward in this area.”
The way the president dealt with the coronavirus crisis and Moro’s departure disappointed some of his richest and best-educated supporters. But a recent public opinion poll by Datafolha, a leading Brazilian research firm, showed that 33% of respondents continued to support it, suggesting that its overall approval rate has remained relatively stable.
Throughout his campaign and presidency, Bolsonaro has benefited from well-organized and nimble advertising campaigns and misinformation that have overtaken the press, relying on social media platforms and text messaging apps.
“Political law in Brazil has the most sophisticated system for recruiting supporters to spread disinformation to the public,” said Marco Ruediger, a researcher at Fundação Fundação Getulio Vargas who studies political disinformation online.
But that strategic advantage has become a liability, as the federal police and a congressional committee investigate the structure and functioning of the bleak online communities that support the president. Among those investigated are two of the president’s sons, Eduardo and Carlos Bolsonaro.
The president’s erratic treatment of the coronavirus, which he called a “miserable cold,” tested the resistance of his online followers, Ruediger said.
But one base that appears to be firm is evangelical Christians, who supported Bolsonaro firmly during the campaign.
Bolsonaro in recent days has hinted at the problems that animate this electorate, reminding them of their opposition to abortion and falsely claiming that the World Health Organization promotes homosexuality and encourages children to masturbate.
“All the top leaders of the evangelical churches in Brazil all continue to support him in the same way,” said Silas Malafaia, leader of one of the country’s megachurches, in an interview. “Bolsonaro will only lose our support if he ends up personally involved in corruption.”
NYT, with additional information.
Bolsonaro tic-tac, tic-tac, says the American newspaper The Washington Post
The US newspaper The Washington Post says Friday, May 1 that Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is sitting on a coronavirus time bomb about to explode.
The United States publication recovers that this Thursday, the 30th, Bolsonaro continued his constant flow of false news about the coronavirus on Facebook, this time violating the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO), strangely suggesting that the health agency of The United States United Nations encourages masturbation and homosexuality among children.
The post, which has been removed, is in line with Bolsonaro’s puzzling coronavirus response: one marked by denial of the magnitude of the threat, anger at blockades imposed by state governors, deep fights with some of the officials from his cabinet, the accelerated ecological devastation of the Amazon and the constant spread of the virus in the largest and most populous nation in Latin America.
The newspaper reports that the president only managed to shrug with irritation on Tuesday, when reporters faced the more than 5,500 confirmed coronavirus deaths in the country. “And that?” he says. “I’m so sorry. What do you want me to do?
Brazil has around 108 thousand confirmed cases of coronavirus [atualizado em 04/05/2020]But experts say the actual number is much higher, potentially more than 1 million. Organs are piling up in major cities as local authorities anticipate a wave of cases, with the most likely peak of the outbreak even a few weeks away. Uncertainty is not helped by the fact that the Bolsonaro government does not test the population.
“Since last night, the bodies have left the hospital in Barra da Tijuca, in Rio, because the morgue was full. Hospital in the absence of doctors. The situation in Rio is getting worse, ”says a tweet from Dom Phillips, an international correspondent in Rio.
Brazil “evaluates 12 times fewer people than Iran and 32 times less than the United States,” US journalists reported, citing the story, a grim metric, as the United States has yet to step up its own testing efforts. “Hospitalized patients are not being evaluated. Some medical professionals are not being evaluated. People die in their homes without being tested. “
The rest of the world is taking notes. Brazil’s neighbors are increasingly cautious about the country’s negligent approach and fear that it will become a continental separator. “A lot of traffic comes from São Paulo, where the infection rate is extremely high and I don’t think the Brazilian government is taking it seriously enough,” said Argentine President Alberto Fernández last weekend. “This worries me a lot, for the Brazilian people and also because it can be transported to Argentina.”
The Associated Press reports that Argentine authorities in the Brazilian border provinces are working to establish safe corridors so that Brazilian truckers can enter the country and deliver their products without contacting Argentines. Similar plans are underway in Uruguay.
Paraguay closed its borders and in at least one case dug a trench between two border cities to avoid crossings. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Bolsonaro’s enemy in charge of a country devastated by the crisis, promised to guarantee “an epidemiological and military barrier” along his nation’s border with Brazil.
In the United States, Florida Governor Republican Ron DeSantis warned of the risks of Brazilian travelers going to their state, which is home to a large Brazilian diaspora. “Brazil has great scientific and economic capacity, but clearly its leadership has an unscientific position in the fight against the coronavirus,” said DeSantis.
This is an opinion shared by Bolsonaro’s former health minister, who resigned last month in cruel circumstances. Bolsonaro “began to have attitudes against health, inciting crowds, saluting a drug that had no scientific basis,” Luiz Henrique Mandetta told the Washington Post, referring to the president’s rejection of the need for blockades and his obsession with advertising properties. of hydroxychloroquine. “I don’t think he fired me,” added Mandetta. “He shot science.”
But, fortunately for Bolsonaro, Mandetta’s resignation is less important than the departure of Sérgio Moro, the justice minister who left office on April 24, but not before denouncing Bolsonaro for trying to appoint a chief police officer A more flexible federal government, which in theory could hinder ongoing investigations in the country, including the president’s children.
The charges against his family members are damning and, if proven, could lead to the possible indictment of the president, who has already lost considerable support from conservative and centrist allies to deal with the coronavirus outbreak. This week, the country’s Attorney General authorized an investigation into the president’s alleged corruption and obstruction of justice.
