but In late June, Brazil broke a grim record: the country had registered one million cases of infection COVID-19 — more than in also included in the BRICS group, Russia and India combined. It was a clear result of an extremely inefficient policy in the field of healthcare, combined with a hasty exit from a partial lockdown. This is stated in the article Brazilian journalist, writer and columnist for Asia Times Online Pepe Escobar, which in the editor NEWS.ru sent international discussion club “Valdai”.
President Air Bolsonaro constantly sabotaged its own recommendations of the Ministry of health and medical professionals, stating that the quarantine will lead to the fact that Brazil will be the “poor African country”.
When the Brazilian leader in April dismissed the popular Minister of health Enrique Mandetta, he said, “Life is precious, but the economy and employment should return to normal.” Successor Mangetti Nelson Teich resigned less than a month.
The actual level of mortality from COVID-19 in Brazil as of the end of June could exceed 85 thousand people, but the real incidence may be seven times higher than the official data. For comparison: in neighboring Argentina by the end of June, there were about 52 thousand cases of infection and only 1150 deaths.
Brazil faces a deadly triad of interrelated crises: political-institutional, economic and sanitary. The liquidity crisis and currency crisis constantly fueling the political, aggravated by “operation car Wash” — a long (and thoroughly corrupt) investigation aimed at combating corruption.
Bolsonaro theoretically retains its electoral base, covering about 30% of voters, despite the fact that in may at least 19 million from 84.4 per million working-age Brazilians were not working. Brazil is respected globally for her efforts to combat hunger. Now, according to world Bank estimates, by the end of 2020 at least 7% of the population will suffer from malnutrition.
Workers ‘ rights and social rights have become more “flexible”, which means a constant threat of job cuts and increase the number of people employed in the informal economy. The neoliberal logic of the authorities is that the country is experiencing a financial crisis and the market should prevail over social policy.
Associated with the hunger crisis began even before COVID-19. The incompetence of officials from Brazil only accelerated its development as the Central government was totally unprepared for a systemic solution to the problem of food security.
In addition, the Minister of the environment Ricardo Salles gave to understand that COVID-19 provides perfect cover for even more wild forms of deregulation. Inv��stores from the EU is clearly not happy.
“We urge the Brazilian government to demonstrate a clear intention to end deforestation and to protect the rights of indigenous peoples”, — stated in the message of depositors.
Even worse, the Senate voted for the privatization of water Brazil — Bolsonaro, of course, will approve this step.
This South American state owns the two largest aquifers on the planet — Guarani and Alter do Chau. The privatisation project lies behind the ingenious “production enterprise of water” in determining the method of operation of what is essentially a common heritage. Thus, COVID-19 became corrupt Senate majority pretext to carry out praise mainstreme media the act of plundering natural resources. It can Eclipse even the huge problem of exploitation of the Brazilian rainforest foreign capital that involve a Legion of loggers and miners in the interest of international conglomerates in mining, and beef production, timber and soybeans.
Total military control
From a political point of view COVID-19 was manna from heaven for the military branch of the Brazilian “deep state”, the top of which are 1300 odd of the military, including the state Committee for institutional security (GSI), the Brazilian equivalent of the national security Council of the United States.
Since Brazil is a Federative Republic, the States have sufficient autonomy in matters of public health. Governors shamelessly used COVID-19 for their own political purposes, benefiting from the lack Bolsonaro the necessary authority, while the bulk of the media — also part of the “deep state” — it pretends that the responsibility for the sanitary disaster in the country rests solely with the President.
And there is the judicial branch of the deep state. The Supreme court is at war with the President, partly because most of the judges were appointed by previous presidents, such as Lula da Silva.
However, virtually all of it — infinite, complex, carefully thought out show with the use of hybrid methods and psychological warfare, clearly developed in a military think tank. Every possible scenario ultimately leads to the fact that the full power is in the hands of the military. They are either manipulated from behind the scenes seems to be uncontrollable, but in fact totally controlled by them Bolsonaro, or uses a plan B and come to power Vice-President Hamilton Moran, a retired General, now clearly enjoying the role of mediator and peacemaker.
Unlike Argentina.s in Brazil a military dictatorship collapsed. In 1985, it is within the very convenient “arrangement” in the Brazilian style, handed over power to civilians and took on the role of a “deterrent”. But the military have done is not earlier than guaranteed full Amnesty.
For 35 years, people in uniform were relatively restrained — even with the Lula, which most of them considered a dangerous Communist. Now it’s over. Unlike governors, judges and journalists from mainstream media, the military are well aware of how strong the base Bolsonaro.
Brazil is a country where half the population lives on average equivalent to €80 per month — less than half the minimum wage. Only 15% work in the standard employment contract and are entitled to unemployment benefits. At least 45 million people don’t even have a current account in the Bank.
It is imperative that more than 40 million citizens are in the informal economy. They are kept only due to the fact that earn per day, and now was in danger due to antiasteniceski restrictions.
Nearly 100 million people, accounting for almost half of the total population, burdened with debt.
As the palliative decision of Brazilian authorities to offer “coronaviruses” is a monthly payment equivalent to €100, which is approximately 60% of the minimum wage. It receives more than 50 million Brazilians, and this number may increase to 80 million paid through a simple application. This provides Bolsonaro popularity among large layers of the lumpen-proletariat and even in the North-East of the country, traditionally considered a stronghold of the Labour party.
The President also continues to support another important faction of the “deep state”: the supporters of the Evangelical doctrines continued to spread in the largest Catholic country on the planet. Under their influence, traditional Catholic piety is gradually replaced by an ugly version of the Protestant ethic, putting in first place the economy and perceiving tens of thousands of deaths from COVID-19 as a fact of life.
Despite all caricature, kvazifashistskim escapades Bolsonaro and his colossal incompetence, he still enjoys the support of a powerful lobby “of the Bible, beef and bullets”, no weakened since he was elected President. Evangelists, wealthy landowners, the army and police don’t think their plan is threatened.
Wide layers of workers in Brazil, as in trambitsky America, oppose social distancing, speaking at the opening of the economy. Rumors about the coup or “imperialate” in the country continue to fool the Brazilian left again and again. However, no matter what happens, even in the casee implementation of the terrifying scenario of the second wave COVID-19, power will remain unchanged. It is, as before, will be under the full control of men in uniform.
