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Teich takes over as Minister of Health amid political friction
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 17 Apr 2020

Nelson Teich took office today as the new Minister of Health. He replaces Luiz Henrique Mandetta. In his speech after taking office, Teich, without giving further details about his action plan to combat the coronavirus, said that the Ministry´s activities will be focused on people. For the time, ...

Mandetta’s situation
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 15 Apr 2020

Since this morning, rumors that President Jair Bolsonaro will fire the Minister of Health, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, have increased in intensity. To add to this, the Secretary of Health in the Ministry, Wanderson de Oliveira, considered the formulator of the strategy against the coronavirus, resign...

Economic team proposes aid to states and municipalities
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 14 Apr 2020

The economic team is proposing an alternative to the bill that provides relief to states and municipalities approved by the Lower House on the evening of Monday, April 13. The text will now be analyzed by the Senate. According to the Lower House text, the federal government will compensate for lo...

Bolsonaro and Mandetta
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 13 Apr 2020

The relationship between President Jair Bolsonaro and Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta continues to present ups and downs. Even after the last week’s “truce” and Bolsonaro’s more moderate national pronouncement on radio and TV, the president this weekend returned to visit local businesses i...

Covid-19: The main legislative measures total R$ 638 billion
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 13 Apr 2020

The Lower House is trying to reach a deal to vote on emergency aid for states and municipalities and on the provisional measure that deals with labor ("Green and Yellow Contract"). The Senate analyzes the "war budget". By Wednesday, April 15, the government will send the LDO to Congress. The STF ...

Bolsonarismo’s new narrative
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 10 Apr 2020

The use of hydroxychloroquine in people infected with coronavirus is the new bet of President Jair Bolsonaro to try to take back the initiative in the political debate. According to the president, doctors have been using the medicine for almost two months in Brazil. Yet, although there are promis...

Partial truce between Bolsonaro and Mandetta; Congress votes on emergency aid to states
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 08 Apr 2020

The meeting of President Jair Bolsonaro with the Minister of Health, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, which took place this morning, may have sealed a momentary “truce” in the relationship between the two. When leaving the Planalto Palace, Mandetta declared to journalists, “I´m good, just work." In an int...

Payment of emergency aid to informal workers starts this week; lack of agreement on the Mansueto Plan
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 07 Apr 2020

The Minister of Citizenship, Onyx Lorenzoni (DEM-RS) announced that, as of Thursday, April 9, the government should start paying the emergency aid of R$ 600 for informal workers. According to the president of Caixa Econômica Federal, Pedro Guimarães, the benefit will be released this week for tho...

Coronavirus: Turbulence in relationship with China; most are in favor of social distancing
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 06 Apr 2020

There was added tension in the Brazil-China relationship today (06) after the Minister of Education, Abraham Weintraub, used Twitter to post insinuations that China could purposefully benefit from the global crisis caused by the coronavirus. According to the minister, China’s goal is to “take ove...

Institutional tension may increase
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 06 Apr 2020

Governors may ask for an extension of social isolation measures. President Bolsonaro has stated that, if the gradual lifting of measures is not announced, he may decide the matter. The Senate may vote on the Constitutional Amendment proposal that deals with the “wartime budget”. The Lower House m...

Polls show wear on Bolsonaro
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 03 Apr 2020

Two polls released today, April 3, show wear on President Jair Bolsonaro amid the coronavirus crisis. According to Datafolha, Bolsonaro’s performance is rated as “bad/very bad” by 39% of respondents. The president’s approval rating is at 33%. According to XP/Ipespe, the president’s negative ratin...

Bolsonaro wants Provisional Measure approved before emergency aid law
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 02 Apr 2020

President Jair Bolsonaro said he will send a provisional measure (MP) to the National Congress and will await its approval before sanctioning the emergency aid of R$ 600 for informal workers. Although Bolsonaro signed the bill approved by Congress yesterday, the measure is not in force because th...

After a controversial video and pressure from Congress, the government announces MP’s aimed at the economy
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 01 Apr 2020

After President Jair Bolsonaro changed the tone of his discourse last night, when he acknowledged the seriousness of the pandemic, today he went back to controversy by sharing a week-old video on social media in which a man films an empty food market in Belo Horizonte. In the video, the man says:...

Bolsonaro’s controversy with the WHO; the president will sanction emergency aid today
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 31 Mar 2020

According to President Jair Bolsonaro during a conversation with journalists on March 31, the director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom, said that informal workers must work. However, Bolsonaro ended up omitting the passage in which Tedros explains that it is necessary for g...

Institutional crisis continues to be fueled
BRAZIL POLITICS · Report · 30 Mar 2020

Despite the increase of coronavirus cases in the country, the institutional crisis between the president and the governors continues and is even affecting President Bolsonaro’s cabinet. On Sunday, the president – who has seen several of his advisers and assistants infected by the virus – took to ...

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