The Brazilian president insists However the Crown’s Overblown. These governors are fighting back

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is in a class of its own. He is the only leader in the world has left the consensus of scientists and experts of Statistics of the severity of the outbreak crown rejected. The hot-headed on the right, who was elected for trade in conspiracy theories and half-truths in 2018, has COVID-19 dismissed as a ‘bit’ of influence “, stressing that” we die every day. ” And ‘los visits his ministry as head of the Health under the feet came to greet the fans and must leave the Brazilians urged the isolation and return to work, defying the advice of the World Health Organization. Now the leaders of Brazil was in isolation from an unprecedented alliance of key ministers of his life, congressional leaders and 24 of the 27 governors of the country, the considerable power similar to a decentralized structure “the United States can say governors never been so unanimous on Brazil as we are now, “João Doria, the governor of the center-right of St. Paul, who has emerged as a key opposition, told tIME. His was the Southeast, which has 46 million inhabitants and a third of Brazil’s GDP suffered relieve more than 80 percent of the country shelters Covid-19 and ran to the crisis. “The US president and attacks despises us. He put us in an impossible situation by creating a narrative that hinder the protection of people and life,” he added. “The governors – left, center and right -. They decided to follow the right path and keep the protocols, that” As of April 6 Brazil had reported 11,490 cases of the virus and 492 deaths. To try to slow down this rate of Doria and Wilson Witzel, its counterpart in the neighboring state of Rio de Janeiro, are in most of the governors, rigorous in their states they have imposed isolation rules, including schools to suspend the ban on buses intercity, close shops, bars and beaches and concerts canceled. All but three of the 27 states in Brazil have led to similar measures. Hamilton Mourão Vice President and Minister of Health, Luiz Henrique Mandetta also, at least until it reaches its likely peak in late April pandemic continued here urge caution. In Bolsonaro response that says insulation will cost jobs, the governors shared a video call “a group of rascals,” Mandetta threatened fire and revealed that he had already prepared a draft Regulation to order the country back to work. “No one should forget that I’m the president,” he said. The right leaders who glorify made his career 1964-1985 dictatorship Brazil was also asked if he could use the crisis resulting to mount a coup. He replied, “If I would not say that.” Brazil recorded its first case of COVID-19 in late January, but the numbers start to rise by the end of February. On March 7 Bolsonaro dined with President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. returns to Brazil, its surroundings 25 tested positive for the virus. Bolsonaro son Eduardo Fox News said that his father had also infected with the virus, then denied that was the case. Doria, who claims to be negative for the virus three times while working 16 hours a day talking on the phone TIME San Paolo tested. “It ‘a dramatic situation and done with great speed. We are running out of time to isolate, management and treatment of the people,” he says. The country’s 27 governors have video conferencing instead of making plans without the president. Sao Paulo has an emergency hospital opened with 200 beds in a stadium and the other with 1,800 beds is planned. “He is to bring to people’s lives in danger,” said Doria Bolsonaro the Walkabouts in Brasilia. “The president is doing nothing to combat the crisis and to preserve life.” Brazil is reportedly well-equipped to handle a major national epidemic. It has 21 seats intensive care beds per 100,000 people, about twice the percentage of those beds in Italy, France and Spain. But only half use in public hospitals that 76% of Brazilians, and in some states of the public system less than a tenth of the capacity of private hospitals. The resources are also unevenly distributed, with less public than a quarter of Brazilian municipalities with intensive care beds. In addition, there are fears of the virus spreading in the crowded favelas and indigenous communities. “Rio de Janeiro municipalities with a population density and most vulnerable people,” said Witzel, the governor of that state. “It is densely populated areas, and our concern is an infection very fast. With the curve check to give to these people in order to survive. The human tragedy in Ecuador, with bodies in the streets can happen if nothing is done. “Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city, has emerged as a regional hotspot for the crown, overwhelming the local authorities, funeral homes, and hospitals. Bolsonaro popular frustration grew. The clatter of pots and pans Brazilian angrily from the windows in the big cities was hammering a nightly ritual. A recent survey 76% of voters support the Bolsonaro insulation measures at the expense of the economy, even if the majority of voters Bolsonaro continue to support the president. Various calls for impeachment were in Congress and a poster for his resignation appeal filed Bolsonaro accused of being “biggest obstacle to take urgent decisions to reduce the spread of infection to save lives and income security of families, jobs and business. “” the country needs a way that guarantees to find democracy and avoid social chaos that can result from attitude Bolsonaro, “said Flávio Dino, the left governor of the northeastern state of Maranhão and the ‘ only governor to date to sign the manifesto. “The president’s popularity falls quickly, not so much for the opposition, but because of his own mistakes.” “It ‘s very hard to believe in his sincerity, seriousness and loyalty. It’ really hard under normal conditions as the rule [no dialogue with the federal government]. Ask says in exceptional conditions and serious we are experiencing now.” Witzel, but the darkness of his election in 2018 at that time, as part Bolsonaro party led someone to break the Rio threatened to arrest isolation rules the same fate awaits the President should. “Everyone here is accused which puts the health of people at risk of crime of disobedience,” he says. “The president must also respond to the Supreme Court.” Doria, a former moderator millionaire Brazilian version of The Apprentice, which has long presiding, also said to Covet, struck a populist tone in recent weeks, telling TIME he would not threaten the dependent fire companies are blackmailed if they could not open as “we not share the profits for life.” Governors also support for the immediate payment of an emergency $115 monthly income for informal workers, self-employed and people with no fixed income. reluctantly that the bill into law on Wednesday it has signed, but the bureaucracy is likely to keep Bolsonaro it. “Every day that is lost, there is a greater risk of a person dying from lack of food,” said Doria. “This is no time for bureaucracy. It ”s time to get resource in the hands of the needy, to save lives.”
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