Brazil is a basket case. It always has been, but now it is dealing with the virus and a nutter in control.
News reports about the Government in Brazil are always difficult to interpret because there is so much corruption, bias, and inner dealings that one can't always be sure why something has happened.
Still, why ever it has happened, the Home Minister, Foreign Minister and the heads of the Army, Navy and Airforce have all either quit or been ousted one way or another. They're on their fifth Health Minister since they keep falling out with Bolsonaro
Bolsonaro is such a complete nightmare that I am only surprised Farage hasn't popped up there giving a speech in support of him.
Aside from maintaining that the entire COVID thing is made up, is no worse than a cold, and that Brazilians should stop whining about it and get on with their lives he is very much into praising the previous dictatorship.
A couple of years ago he organised a National Day of celebrations of the original coup in the mid sixties.
Even more worrying Gen Walter Braga Netto, the new Minister of Defense, said that the coup had pacified the country at a time of threat to peace and democracy and should be celebrated.
Bolsonaro's popularity has fallen a lot, even his Trump/Farage populist statements aren't getting the support they used to. I do worry about how far he is prepared to go. Will he try to use the military to extend his Presidency? He'd almost certainly fail, there's a lot of Brazilians and they're well-armed and very stroppy. But he might try.
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