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It began with Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo submitting his resignation, Reuters reports. He resigned after receiving massive criticism for not buying vaccines and medical equipment. Ernesto Araújo has been one of the most controversial representatives of the right-wing populist government. He believes that climate change is a Marxist conspiracy meant to benefit China. And he has protested the “criminalization” of red meat, oil and straight men.
Later that day, Defense Minister Fernando Azevedo e Silva decided to resign. The message came very unexpectedly.
– The mission is complete, he said in a statement.
A few weeks ago, the Minister of Health, Eduardo Pazuello, as well as Bolsonaro himself with a past in the army, had to leave their job. Now he has been replaced by the doctor and the cardiologist. Marcelo Queiroga, fourth Minister of Health during the corona pandemic.
The resignations of ministers It comes at a time when the death toll from the corona pandemic is skyrocketing in Brazil and medical care is about to collapse in several major cities. President Bolsonaro has been criticized for failing to take sufficient measures to slow the spread of the infection and ensure that the country has access to vaccines. Bolsonaro has called the disease, which has killed more than 300,000 people in Brazil, as “a little flu.” A few weeks ago, he urged the population to “stop whining and move on.”
Another cloud in Bolsonaro’s sky is that the political opponent and former president Lula da Silva has returned since the Supreme Court overturned several corruption convictions against him. Lula da Silva has launched a strong attack on Bolsonaro’s way of dealing with the pandemic.
