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Post by blindpig » Sat Apr 25, 2020 1:38 pm

Brazil Registers Record of Daily Deaths as Hospitals Collapse

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People attending a funeral at a collective grave, Manaus, Brazil, April 23, 2020. | Photo: EFE

Published 24 April 2020 (18 hours 31 minutes ago)

In Manaus city, mass graves are the alternative to bury the growing number of dead people.


Brazil’s Health Ministry Friday afternoon reported 52,995 COVID-19 cases, 357 deaths in the last 24 hours, and 3,670 deaths so far.

The state of Sao Paulo registers 17,826 contagion cases and 1,512 deaths. It is followed by the state of Rio de Janeiro with 6,282 COVID-19 cases and 570 deaths.

In Manaus city, in the state of Amazonas, hospitals have begun to fill up with corpses and, in some health institutions, the dead are being stored in trucks​​​​​​.​​​​

Since funeral homes are also collapsed, corpses are being buried in mass graves, after brief funeral ceremonies in which only five family members are allowed to participate. ​​​​​​​

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"Pictures of the burial of bodies in mass graves in Manaus, Brazil, April 21, 2020."

Health professionals have also alerted President Jair Bolsonaro to the lack of beds for intensive care patients and demanded more protective supplies.

The Health Minister Nelson Teich, however, denied the facts by saying that "there is no explosive growth in deaths in Brazil."

Amid this crisis, Bolsonaro is increasing political tensions in his government. Justice Minister Sergio Moro, one of his trusted men, is threatening to resign.

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A Coughing Bolsonaro Addresses Hundreds Of Military Coup Supporters

To hundreds of supporters who waited for him in front of the army headquarters in Brasilia, holding signs calling for shutting down Congress and the Supreme Court, a tired and weak looking President Jair Bolsonaro asks people to “give their lives for the fatherland”.

In what is now a regular occurrence, President Jair Bolsonaro left self-isolation this weekend, mingled in crowds and participated in small protests in the greater Brasilia area, disobeying recommendations by the WHO on how to avoid Covid-19 transmission. On Sunday afternoon (April 19) he gave a speech to a group of supporters in front of the Army Headquarters. Among the signs waved there were some which called for military intervention and a new Institutional Act-5, the 1968 coup within a coup which shut down Congress, banned political parties and suspended the right to habeas corpus.

From the top of a sound truck, Bolsonaro gave a speech tailored for his supporters, which was frequently interrupted by a strong cough:

“You are here because you believe in Brazil,” he said, “We don’t want to negotiate anything. What we want is action for Brazil. The old things will be left behind. We have a new Brazil awaiting. Everyone, with no exceptions in Brazil, has to be a patriot and believe in doing their part to lift Brazil to a place of leadership. It’s over. The age of trickery is over. Now it is the people who have the power.”

He went on to challenge the audience, “More than a right, you have the duty to fight for your country. Tell your president to do whatever is necessary so that we can maintain our democracy and guarantee what is most sacred to us- freedom. Everyone in Brazil has to understand that they are submissive to the will of the Brazilian people I’m sure all of us will swear to give our lives to our country one day and we will do everything possible to change Brazil’s destiny. There will be no more old-fashioned politics. Now it is Brazil above all and God above all.”

This article originally appeared in Rede Brasil Atual, was translated by Brian Mier, and can be seen in its original Portuguese here.

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More than any other world leader, even the Cheeto Man, this guy appears to be a genuine maniac. Too crazy for even the fascist military to tolerate for long. Though they were more than happy to take control on his coattails and now supplant him. But seemingly not nuts enough for the US State Dept to disavowal.
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Post by blindpig » Thu Apr 30, 2020 1:12 pm

Brazilian capital puts workers on their knees in protest against quarantine
04/29/2020

The face of Brazilian fascism
Brazil has flown over a photo in which employees of the company of Campina Grande , located in the state of Paraiba , are on their knees, asking the state to lift quarantine and restart the country's economy. In solidarity, local workers bombarded the Campina Grande trade union with letters. This was reported by a left-wing news agency supported by the Landless Peasants Movement (MST), Brasil de Fato.

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Brazilian big business kneels protesting state quarantine

A protest involving workers was organized by employers with the goal of resuming local trade. The main organizer, the Campina Grandi Chamber of Commerce , claims that the suspension of business due to the pandemic of the new coronavirus will lead to the bankruptcy of a business in Campina Grande.

After the outrageous action, several shopkeepers anonymously told the union about the misfortunes they were subjected to as a result of quarantine by the state governor.

In his report, the Campina Grande Workers' Union said: "Reports that employers organized this campaign with workers are false."

In addition, employers threatened to fire workers if they refused to kneel.

"Workers were forced to participate in the rally by businessmen - the leaders of some companies - under the threat of dismissal," the union said.

The Brazilian Ministry of Labor informed Brasil de Fato that it had not received formal complaints about this.

“But given the coverage of the situation in the local press, we have begun a fact-finding process,” said Andressa Lucena, lawyer for the Ministry of Labor.

The action attracted serious attention of Brazilian Internet users. Outrage among wage earners continues to grow.

Currently, the state is experiencing a peak in coronavirus infections, which should last until the end of May.
Against the backdrop of quarantine, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaru fired the country's health minister, Luis Enrique Mandetta , who too often spoke about the threat of COVID-19. To the vacant seat, the president arranged his old friend, Dr. Nelson Teich .
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Following in the footsteps of Pinochet, right-wing president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaru

Bolsonaru became famous for his attitude to measures of social isolation - it came to threats to state governors who introduced quarantine measures. In his speeches, the president called coronavirus “flu” and ridiculed the policy of the ex-minister of health. Luis Enrique Mandetta supported the closure of schools and enterprises during a raging epidemic.

According to Bolsonaro, he has already begun to discuss with his friend, the new Minister of Health, the complete rejection of quarantine throughout Brazil in order to support the business.

We have no doubt that the large trading business that set its slavesworkers to their knees, previously enlisted the support of the country's right-wing president. Bolsonaro more than once in fact demonstrated an indifference to fascist methods of government - in mid-December 2019, we wrote about how, based on his tip, punitive detachments staged robbery in the villages of the state of Menas Gerasa to suppress the fighting peasants. Against this background, Brazil’s large oil capital sacrifices the health of workers during a pandemic, forcing them to work more and more while the administration is in quarantine.

So in a period of global social catastrophe appears the face of Brazilian fascism.

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The conspiracy of global capital to lock out labor can't seem to get it's shit together.
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Post by blindpig » Fri May 01, 2020 12:00 pm

Covid-19: Cases Rise in Brazilian City After Commercial Reopen

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A group of people wait their turn to enter a shopping mall in Blumenau, state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. April, 2020. | Photo: Twitter/ @g1

Published 30 April 2020 (18 hours 15 minutes ago)

In just two weeks, Blumenau, in the south of the country, went from 68 to 194 infected.

Two weeks after the Brazilian city of Blumenau, in the state of Santa Catarina, reopened its shops by decision of the municipal government, the cases of COVID-19 have multiplied.

The local media reported that out of 68 cases registered on April 13, the number now stands at 194, an increase of 185 percent.

The numbers increased despite the fact that workers and citizens use their face masks.

Blumenau officials acknowledged that the increase in infections was due to the reopening of businesses, and the increased number of tests conducted since last week.

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"Coronavirus situation in the city of Blumenau on 28/04/2020."

Despite the significant increase in cases of COVID-19, the city has so far not recorded any deaths.

The state of Santa Catarina has decreed the obligatory use of face masks, but there have been reports of people entering shops without such protection.

The local media have also reported that, with the reopening of the city, there were crowds of people in shopping centres.

Since the first case in Brazil, the national government of Jair Bolsonaro has decided to prioritize the economy.

This Wednesday, Bolsonaro was asked by journalists about the increase in deaths, to which he responded: "So what? I'm a Messiah, but I don't do miracles. Life is like that."

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/cov ... -0011.html

A Messiah that doesn't do miracles? Boy is he in trouble...

I expect we'll see a raft of similar events throughout the US South in coming months. Followed by more half-assed shutdowns until the capitalists get sick of it & leave people to their 'fate'.

Dump yer nursing home stock is the lesson here.
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Post by blindpig » Sat May 16, 2020 11:22 am

Brazil loses second health minister in less than a month as Covid-19 deaths rise
Nelson Teich’s resignation was announced in message from health ministry after Bolsonaro sacked Luiz Mandetta in April

Fri 15 May 2020 17.12 BSTLast modified on Fri 15 May 2020 21.08 BST

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Nelson Teich speaks in Brasília, Brazil, on 17 April. Photograph: Evaristo Sa/AFP via Getty Images

Brazil’s health minister has abruptly resigned after less than a month on the job – and a day after the country announced it had recorded nearly 14,000 deaths.

The sudden resignation of Nelson Teich was announced in a curt WhatsApp message from the health ministry on Friday morning, and is likely to deepen the turmoil around Brazil’s flailing response to the pandemic.

Teich was Brazil’s second health minister to leave office in less than a month.

His popular predecessor, Luiz Mandetta, was fired by he country’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro,on 16 April following disagreements over social isolation measures, which Bolsonaro has dismissed as unnecessary.

News of Teich’s resignation was greeted with dismay by doctors fighting the virus. Albert Ko, a professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine blamed “the lack of leadership and poor governance”.

“To lose two health ministers will really have a dramatic impact on the country’s ability to contest the epidemic,” said Ko, who has extensive experience working in Brazil.

In a short televised statement to reporters on Friday afternoon, Teich did not explain his reasons for leaving – nor did he answer any questions.

“Life is made of choices and today I chose to leave,” he said. “It’s not easy to be at the front of a ministry like this at such a difficult period.”


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On taking office, Teich initially appeared to follow Bolsonaro’s line, arguing that bolstering Brazil’s economy was as important as controlling the pandemic’s growing death toll.

But in recent weeks Teich had increasingly disagreed with Bolsonaro over social isolation and the use of the malaria drug chloroquine to treat coronavirus.

The Brazilian president has enthusiastically backed using the drug, despite a string of medical studies showing that it has no positive effect on people suffering Covid-19, and can possibly cause other health complications.

On Thursday Bolsonaro announced that he wanted to change the protocol regulating the use of chloroquine that Mandetta had introduced.

Teich was publicly embarrassed on Monday when he discovered during a press conference that the president had issued a decree that classified gyms, beauty salons and barbers as essential services.

“This was not our role, it was the president’s decision,” he said, looking flummoxed.

After Teich stood down, his predecessor, Mandetta, tweeted: “Let’s pray.” In an interview for the Estado de S Paulo newspaper, Mandetta described Teich’s short tenure as “a lost month, thrown in the garbage bin”.

Brazil reported 844 new deaths in 24 hours on Thursday night, taking the total to 13,993 and it now has 202,918 cases, making it the world’s sixth most affected country, according to Johns Hopkins University figures.

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Brazilian Health Minister Nelson Teich resigned today (15), after refusing to support cloroquine.

In Brazil, the pharmaceutical that owns the patent for cloroquine - Apsen - is owned by a fervent Bolsonaro supporter, mogul Renato Spallicci.

The news is even more shocking because Teich is a far-rightist with a passion for laissez-faire and necropolitics. He was nominated as Mandetta's (the former Health Minister) successor precisely because Bolsonaro expected him to support the end of the lockdown and, later, the usage of cloroquine as the main treatment for COVID-19.

Brazil's situation is so calamitous that even Teich, when he had access to the numbers, outright supported the continuation of the lockdown, in his very first public speech (to Bolsonaro's surprise, I guess).

It is a consensus among experts that Brazil's official numbers are a farce. It is estimated that the total number of deaths is at least 12 times higher.

Posted by: vk | May 15 2020 18:48 utc | 6

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That number is unattributed but believable.

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The Struggle Continues: Maranhão fights the pandemic

“Our central focus is to save lives and we will not abandon it.”

During the 2018 presidential elections, Jair Bolsonaro lost by a 2:1 ratio to Workers Party candidate Fernando Haddad in Brazil’s traditional Northeast region, and left and center left governors were elected in 8 of its 9 states. Today, as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across Brazil, the northeastern governors stand as pillars of scientific reason, protecting their populations from sabotage, slander and poor information coming from US puppet ruler Jair Bolsonaro and the necropolitics of his crypto-fascist ministers. After the Bolsonaro government blocked a shipment of 68 ventilators from a factory in Santa Catarina to Maranhão, communist governor Flávio Dino (PC do B) worked with the Chinese government to smuggle 107 of them into the state via Ethiopia. Then, a week later, the Supreme Court overturned Bolsonaro’s order and ordered the Santa Catarina factory to deliver the ventilators within 48 hours. With schools and businesses closed and 70% of Maranhão’s ICU units currently occupied, Governor Dino is promising a full, Chinese style lockdown if occupation surpasses 80%. The following translated text, which opens quoting Pan African independence fighter Samora Machel, is a message from Governor Dino to the citizens of Maranhão. – BM

A luta continua/The struggle continues

By Governor Flávio Dino

Several weeks in, the battle against coronavirus in Maranhão is getting more and more intense. Before the first case was diagnosed in our state we established preventative measures which were essential in preventing the situation that we face today from being even worse than it is. We have worked every day to raise public consciousness about the importance of social distancing and suspension of non-essential services. These initiatives bother everyone but they are vital in order for us to gain time to increase our state hospital system capacity and prepare our health workers for this arduous mission.

We are fighting the pandemic on two important fronts: on the one hand, the population, businesses and public institutions are now aware of the problem and are adopting social distancing as a prevention strategy; on the other, our health professionals are now adequately equipped with PPE as they treat the patients in our hospitals.

Now we are arriving at a sensitive moment in this battle. The numbers are growing exponentially. The number of confirmed cases has grown thirty-fold in April, surpassing 2000. We have done everything we can to increase our capacity to receive patients in our health system, but we haven’t been able to expand fast enough to meet the demand. No country in the world, even those that are very developed, has been able to provide health services for all of its population at the same time. We do not want have to deal with this situation in Maranhão so we have to depend on cooperation between the state and municipal public health systems and with the collaboration of society.

Our main focus is to save lives and we will not abandon it. Therefore, we are continuing to expand the number of hospital beds in the state public health system – amplifying existing structures and setting up new ones – to guarantee the conditions that the population needs. When the pandemic started, we reserved 252 beds for coronavirus patients in the state hospital system. Now we have over 600 and we are continuing to expand. There are also many mayors who are increasing capacities in their municipal public health systems and efficiently using their neighborhood health clinics, which are fundamental ports of entry for new patients and centers of problem resolution.

As we work with all of our energy, I reiterate that it is fundamental for everyone to act responsibly in terms of prevention. Practicing social distancing, following hygiene guidelines and using masks in all public places are imperative right now. We will contribute with all of the health professionals who are on the front line of this battle, who I deeply thank for their dedication. Let’s keep fighting with faith, courage and lots of work, from Sunday to Sunday.

This article was translated by Brian Mier, from the Maranhão State Government website and can be seen in its original portuguese here.

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Post by blindpig » Wed May 27, 2020 3:50 pm

The FBI, the Fusion Center, and the Far Right: US creep in Brazil

In an important new investigation, journalist Natalia Viana of Agência Pública has revealed how, during Sergio Moro’s 15 month tenure as Justice and Security Minister under Jair Bolsonaro, he quickly enabled the US Federal bureau of investigation to drastically expand its activities and reach in Brazil.

The report reveals meetings involving the representatives from other areas of the US Government, such as the Treasury, with the new Justice and Security Minister in the first weeks of his tenure, intended to “deepen Brazil’s legal cooperation with the United States”.

The expansion of the FBI’s presence in the country includes further collaboration with Brazilian prosecutors and Police, partnership on a surveillance unit in the strategically important Triple Frontier region, and a level of access to Brazilians’ biometric data which opens up potentially grave abuse of human rights.

FBI director in Brazil, David Brassanini, is also revealed to have met with a notorious far-right advisor to Jair Bolsonaro, who is accused of disseminating fake news and encouraging online lynchings.

Translated by Brasil Wire, edited for readability and republished with permission. Original version in Portuguese.

By Natalia Viana. May 4, 2020

Months of investigation into official documents by Agência Pública reveal that, upon assuming the Ministry of Justice, former judge and Federal Police director Maurício Valeixo signed agreements with the FBI, expanding American influence in different areas of fighting crime, including the presence of foreign agents in an intelligence center on the border, investigations into corruption, and access to Brazilian biometric data.

At the end of 2019, the FBI’s Brazil office asked the US government for more resources to expand its team and respond to more requests for international investigative cooperation in the country.

The FBI is prohibited from conducting investigations in foreign territories – including Brazil – because the American police have no jurisdiction in the country.

However, FBI agents operated freely in Brazil until 2004, when FBI former director Carlos Costa admitted to the Ministério Público Federal that the agency coordinated and financed Federal Police operations, which established a relationship of “subordination to American authorities”. Afterwards, the Luís Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff administrations sought improve the Federal Police structure in order to achieve more independence.

Sergio Moro’s actions indicate a reconnection with the FBI, unknown to the public up to this point.

Although the two biggest investigations of Lava Jato by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) have already ended, with the agreements of Odebrecht and Petrobras, the FBI “still has a lot to do to investigate corruption in Brazil”, in the words of the FBI chief in the country, David Brassanini, in a lecture at the 7th International Compliance Congress, in May 2019, in São Paulo.

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Announcement of David Brassanini’s participation in the International Compliance Congress

He highlighted he partnership with the Policia Federal in the Lava Jato investigations as an alliance that deserves praise. It was from there that the relationship between the agents intensified. A joint report from The Intercept Brasil and Agência Pública showed that, since 2015, FBI agents have been in Curitiba to interrogate whistleblowers who were closing deals with Brazilian prosecutors.

The FBI is able to investigate transnational corruption thanks to the FCPA (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act), a law that allows the US government to investigate and punish acts of corruption in the United States involving foreign authorities committed by foreign companies and individuals. The crimes need not have taken place on American soil – it is sufficient, for example, that there has been a transfer of money through an American bank or that the companies involved sell shares on US stock exchanges. It was based on this law that the American government punished Brazilian billionaires targeted by Lava Jato with fines, including Petrobras and Odebrecht.

Brassanini also revealed, at the same event, that FBI agents come to São Paulo “every week to deal with different cases involving FCPA and money laundering”. According to him, the collaboration with the PF has already yielded a lot of information for the coming years. “Brazilian Federal Police officers recently told me that even if they do not collect any additional information or do any investigative work, they would still have material to continue investigations into corruption and money laundering for the next five years.”

David Brassanini has been FBI chief in Brazil since August 2017, but he has served on the agency in the countrysince 2006. He is married to a Brazilian, with whom he has four children, and is fluent in Portuguese. He currently manages the FBI’s work at the embassy in Brasilia and at consulates in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Recife, Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre – including cooperation with Lava Jato – with a team of 20 people, according to the specialized publication Global Investigative Review .

He was the main articulator of a more “assertive” posture by the American police in the ministry led by Moro. In addition to meeting with the minister himself at the beginning of his term, Brassanini met with secretaries and even had a meeting with the controversial special advisor to President Jair Bolsonaro, Filipe Martins. Martins is a 31 year old follower of U.S.-based far-right “guru” Olavo de Carvalho and a former U.S. Embassy employee, who has been an influence on the foreign policy of the Bolsonaro government, alongside the President’s son, congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro.

The meeting took place on July 18, 2019, at 5:30 pm, at Planalto Palace. Martins was accused by deputy Alexandre Frota during testimony to the CPI (Congressional Inquiry) into Fake News of introducing Bolsonaro to Steve Bannon and of “promoting virtual lynchings”. Martins was summoned to appear at the CPI to clarify his alleged participation in the so called “hate office” which controls the President’s digital militias, and operates as a factory for fake news.

At the meeting with Filipe Martins, Brassanini was accompanied by William Popp, Deputy Chief of Mission at the United States Embassy.

While in 2018, during Michel Temer’s government, Brassanini made only a “courtesy visit” to Rogério Galloro, then national secretary of the Justice Ministry, there were at least four official visits in 2019.

The first visit took place at the very beginning of the government. On January 17, 2019, Minister Sergio Moro received a delegation from U.S. authorities to discuss ways to deepen Brazil’s legal cooperation with the United States, according to the Ministry of Justice website. In addition to Brassanini, US Treasury policy advisers, business manager Doug Koneff, economic director Frank DeParis and political advisor Kristin Kane, all embassy employees, were at the meeting.

The following week, on the 24th, Brassanini met all morning with Jorge Barbosa Pontes, from the Education and Statistics Directorate of the Ministry of Justice, as well as General Theophilo, then secretary of the National Public Security Secretariat. According to the official agenda of the director, the topic of the meeting was a partnership for training at the Ministry’s National Academy of Public Security.

The previous day, American police attaché Jason Smith had visited the Education and Statistics Directorate, accompanied by two other representatives of the embassy.

On August 12, Brassanini met again with Jorge Pontes and with other secretaries, among them the Ministry of Justice’s integrated operations, Rosalvo Ferreira; the general coordinator for combating organized crime, Rodrigo de Sousa Alves, the assistant secretary José Washington Luiz Santos, the intelligence director of the Integrated Operations Secretariat, Marcos Aurélio Pereira de Moura, and the intelligence director, Fábio Galvão da Silva Rêgo.

These meetings were attended by the regional security attaché at the United States embassy in Brasilia, Jason Smith, and a delegation of special agents from the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service. The meetings revolved around two partnership projects: “Discussions about the biometrics project and the creation of the fusion center”, according to an official record.

Biometric information is at the heart of an agreement signed on March 18, 2019, during an official visit by Moro and former Policia Federal general director Maurício Valeixo to Washington, during which they accompanied President Jair Bolsonaro’s first official visit. Moro met with then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and FBI director Christopher A. Wray. He had lunch with FBI and Policia Federal members at The Capital Grille steakhouse, according to Folha de S.Paulo. According to the official agenda, the lunch was offered by FBI deputy director Charles Spencer.

The agreement signed between Valeixo and Christopher A. Wray, obtained by Pública via FOI, aims to exchange information on criminal and terrorist groups based on the sharing of fingerprints of citizens of both countries for the purposes of criminal investigations.

Any of the police can ask for fingerprints and other identifying data, such as name, social security number, social security number and identity number, place and date of birth, in cases involving “an individual who is reasonably suspected of being a terrorist” or “Individuals suspected of having committed serious crimes or transnational criminal activities”. Serious crimes, according to the agreement, are all those whose sentence exceeds one year in prison.

The fingerprints will be inserted by the FBI into US national databases, which other agencies of the US federal government and state governments have access to, according to the document.

DOCUMENT: INTER-INSTIUTIONAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN BRAZILIAN FEDERAL POLICE AND FBI

In October of last year, Bolsonaro signed a decree establishing a unique database, the Cadastro Base do Cidadão, which will link different databases on Brazilian citizens, including numbers of records and documents, biographical and biometric data, such as “palm of the hand, the fingerprints of the fingers, the retina or iris of the eyes, the shape of the face, the voice and the way of walking”. The decree comes at the same time as it advances the collection of biometric data of the population, such as biometrics for the elections, for example, which reached 120 million voters this year.

“Biometric data, according to the General Data Protection Law, is sensitive data. Sharing these to form this Citizen Base Register allows more data, sensitive or not, to be used, in order to extrapolate the purposes for which it was collected”, says Joana Varon, director of the organization Coding Rights, which defends data privacy .

Joana says that the agreement signed by Valeixo can lead to abuse, since the definition of what would be a “suspect” is quite broad. “Police cooperation agreements, which involve the exchange of sensitive data, such as biometric data, need to be more specific and delimited to ensure that this exchange of information is really necessary and proportional to the intended purposes, especially in the political moment in which we live.”

According to Varon, the treaty may have more weight in the context of an institutional threat to the Policia Federal. “These limits are even more important if we consider that the Bolsonaro government conducts a policy of total subservience to the American government, as well as if we take into account that we live in moments of democratic crisis and threats of political interference in the Federal Police”, she concludes.

On the same occasion, Maurício Valeixo also signed an agreement with the US Chief of Customs and Border Protection, Kevin K. McAleenan, to allow a Brazilian Policia Federal delegate to be stationed at the National Threat Identification Center, and at the same time, that an agent of the US Department of Homeland Security be assigned to the Policia Federal in Brazil, to coordinate border security actions.

DOCUMENT: INTER-INSTITUTIONAL COOPERATION BETWEEN DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND FEDERAL POLICE

The “Fusion Center” at the Triple Frontier in Paraná

The “Fusion Center” – or Integrated Border Operations Center (Ciof) – is an intelligence office at the Triple Frontier of Foz do Iguaçu that aims to bring together agents from 16 institutions and unify databases. The model is inspired by the center run by the DEA, the American anti-drug agency, on the border with Mexico, which Moro visited in June last year.

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Jason Smith at the 1st Meeting of CSB Security Professionals on March 29, 2017

In September, Moro spoke again about the Fusion Center with an American delegation at the Palace of Justice in Brasilia, this time with the Assistant Director General of the US Department of Homeland Security, David Peter Pekoske.

The Integrated Border Operations Center is a dream project of the American embassy, ​​which for at least ten years has been pressing the Brazilian government to investigate suspicions of terrorist activities in the region – a demand which had faced resistance from PT (Workers Party) governments, as revealed in diplomatic documents published by WikiLeaks.

In January 2008, for example, the US Ambassador complained that Lula’s government “refuses to legally or even rhetorically label U.S.-designated terrorist groups such as HAMAS, Hizballah or the FARC as terrorist groups”.

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Sergio Moro at the opening of the Fusion Center in Foz do Iguaçu

On November 6, 2019, the former minister took a small American entourage to present the project. There were the American consul, Adam Shub, and members of the FBI – among them David Brassanini. “The United States has been a great partner for Brazil in this activity, in others as well, and we are taking advantage of the model that has already been built. We asked for help with training and equipment,” said Moro.

DOCUMENT: PROPOSAL FOR FUSION CENTER AT TRIPLE FRONTIER IN PARANÁ

The center was finally opened on December 16 at the Technological Park of the Itaipu hydroelectric power plant, in Foz do Iguaçu. A month earlier, Brassanini and a small American entourage took a special tour of the facilities, guided by none other than Sergio Moro. The day after the visit, Moro announced the signing of an agreement with Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina that allows police officers to cross the border to act in neighboring countries during operations.

“It is as if there is a permanent task force, with the objective of preventing and suppressing border crime (smuggling, drug and arms trafficking, financing of terrorism and protection of critical structures for the country). For this reason, the strategic location is in Itaipu”, stated Moro, on the opening day.

The center will manage unified databases from the joint action of members the Policia Federal, Federal Highway Police, National Intelligence Agency (Abin), Ministry of Defense, Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU, former Coaf), Federal Revenue, Military Police, Civil Police, Scientific Police to fight organized crime at the Triple Frontier in Foz do Iguaçu. There will also be “attorneys [police] from other countries”, Moro told the local newspaper Tarobá News .

According to the Justice Ministry, the center will work mainly to combat arms and drug trafficking. The teams will also monitor illegal financial movements.

In the same week, the FBI created a team specialized in topics such as terrorism and drug trafficking to operate in Paraguay, according to the Associated Press.

Barred from carrying out investigations in foreign territories – including in Brazil – agents like Brassanini walk on egg shells when they have to explain their work.



In an official FBI video of Brassanini, he explains: “Although we may not have jurisdiction in the country where we are located […], we have the ability to seek out and speak to our partners, who have jurisdiction, to work with them, and say, ‘Hey, we’re looking for this fugitive, do you know where he is? Can we help you? Is there anything you might need to help find them, whether it’s training, or other sophisticated techniques that we can use to identify, find this fugitive? ‘.”

The FBI and the embassy refuse to detail publicly what their agents do in Brazil. But a document from the embassy itself reveals how this work functions. An advertisement from October 19, 2019 is looking for a “security investigator” to work on the legal attaché team and spend 70% of the time doing investigations.

“These investigations are often highly controversial, they can have significant social and political implications,” says the advertisement text, written in English.

DOCUMENT: BASIC FUNCTION OF POSITION MAIN DUTIES SECURITY INVESTIGATOR

Among the tasks listed are “investigative assistance related to violations of US law” to public security officers, including the Ministry of Justice, Federal, Civil and Military police and the Attorney General’s Office (PGR). Thus, “the position requires an ability to interact at a professional level with members of the security community at a high level and at an operational level on operational and relationship issues.”

The professional must “appear with (or sometimes without) the legal attaché team at meetings with members of the Brazilian government,” accompany the Brazilian press and maintain “investigative and training databases related to liaison contacts, conferences , topics, speakers, photos, and materials that can be easily accessed for compiling evaluations, as needed”.

The advertisement warns that the police officer will have to travel by car, boat, train or plane for up to 30 days. “Travel to remote border areas and to all regions of Brazil will be required.” The salary amount is not disclosed.

Sought out by Agência Pública, the US Embassy in Brasilia had not answered the questions sent by the reporter at the time of publication.

*Additional reporting by Jeremy Bigwood and Raphaela Ribeiro

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US Sends Brazil Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 Treatment

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Published 31 May 2020 (10 hours 52 minutes ago)

Brazil is Latin America’s hardest-hit country and the second in the world with over 514,000 cases.

The United States has sent to Brazil more than two million doses of hydroxychloroquine touted by President Donald Trump as potentially protecting against and treating the coronavirus, even though scientific evidence has not backed up those uses.

In a joint statement with the Brazilian government on Sunday, the White House said the doses of hydroxychloroquine had been sent as a prophylactic for front-line health workers and as a therapeutic for those who may come down with the virus.

The White House said it was also delivering 1,000 ventilators.

Brazil is Latin America’s hardest-hit country and the second in the world with over 514,000 cases. Last week Trump announced that the U.S. was restricting travel from the country to prevent travelers from spreading the virus in the U.S.

On March 19, Trump started promoting the drug as a potential treatment based on a positive report about its use against the virus, but subsequent studies found that it was not helpful. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning about its use.

The FDA said it was aware of increased use of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine through outpatient prescriptions and that the malaria drugs could cause abnormal heart rhythms and dangerously rapid heart rate.

The agency also took note of the information from other research teams, such as the study presented in Marseille, France, which claimed that hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin had been successful in treated patients.

For them, studies like this lack veracity because they are too small or poorly designed to offer strong evidence of benefit, representing a high risk. Cases of poisoning have been reported in Nigeria and the U.S.

However, and according to White House physician Sean Conley, “after numerous discussions” both Trump and his doctor decided that the “potential benefit from treatment outweighed the relative risks,” despite scientific evidence.

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Bolsonaro Wanted Armed Actions Against the Quarantine in Brazil

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Published 2 June 2020 (20 hours 43 minutes ago)

The Brazilian president's intentions are exposed once again after the Supreme Court ordered the disclosure of the contents of a "secret" cabinet meeting held in April.

Former Justice Minister Sergio Moro denounced that Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro intended to provide weapons for violent rebellions against mayors and governors.

“The flexibilization of the possession and bearing of arms policies can be legitimately discussed. However, it cannot be intended, as the president desired, to promote a kind of armed rebellion against the health measures imposed by governors and mayors,” Moro tweeted on Monday.

"Nor is it recommended that mechanisms for controlling and tracking the use of weapons and ammunition be simply revoked, as there is a risk of diversion of weapons intended for the protection of ordinary citizens for the benefit of criminals," he added.

During a cabinet meeting on April 22, Bolsonaro asked to arm the population to prevent a dictatorship from being established in Brazil, a fact that, in his opinion, would be possible taking into account the actions of governors and mayors during the COVID pandemic -19.

On Tuesday, Bolsonaro accused the former Justice minister of being a coward who wanted to impose an ordinance to fine those who did not obey the COVID-19 prevention measures and to force the coronavirus infected people to stay at home.​​​​​​​

Following the Machiavellian experience, the Far-Right uses religion in favor of those who rule. As if it were the result of a miracle, a politician calls himself an evangelical or a fervent Catholic to win votes. United States, Brazil, Spain, Bolivia.

"At that secret [ministerial meeting published by the Supreme Court], Moro was cowardly silent. He wanted an ordinance to fine anyone who was on the street... he was perfectly aligned with another ideology that was not ours. Thank God we have gotten rid of him,” Bolsonaro said, as reported by local media.

The Brazilian president also criticized Moro for creating difficulties to relax laws over firearms possession​​​​​​​ in this South American nation.

"Moro ignored my decrees and the law to make it difficult for good citizens to possess and carry firearms," he told his supporters.

As of Tuesday morning, Brazil had reported 531,768 COVID-19 cases and 30,152 deaths, making it the second country with the greatest pandemic impact, after the United States, which has reported 1,866,589 COVID-19 cases and 107,370 deaths in the world.​​​​​​​

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The end of Bolsanaro? The multiple crises that threaten your government
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Since the first cases of coronavirus were detected in Brazil on February 26, the president of the nation Jair Bolsonaro has maintained a bluster attitude to face the pandemic; He even underestimated the real danger of the disease by assuming a mocking attitude in the face of the situation.
This erratic stance to face the Covid-19 turned into a political crisis in which various powers of the State face, and everything points to Bolsonaro as responsible for the health emergency for not taking measures in time.
Irresponsible management of the pandemic
" What do you want me to do? , this is life, I am going to make roast meat for 30 people this Saturday ”, among others, are part of the compendium of phrases used by the Brazilian president in the context of the pandemic.
To this is added his appearances in public without the required protection, which represents a danger for the president himself.
In this country of more than 200 million inhabitants, the states most affected by the coronavirus are Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Ceará, with more than 320,000 positive cases and more than 20,000 deaths between these three regions.
Currently, Brazil ranks second in the world by number of infections and deaths from Covid-19, after the United States.

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Photo: Statesman

In a few months, since the first "colds" were counted (as Bolsonaro ironically referred), the South American nation approaches one million infected and exceeds 45,000 deaths.
In other words, given this tragic scenario, the contagion curve is far from flattening if the most vulnerable populations are taken into account.
On the one hand, the more than ten million Brazilians live crowded in favelas, and on the other, the indigenous communities in the Amazon states, where the number of infections has quintupled.
The first signs of disaster
The differences between Bolsonaro, governors and judges became increasingly evident when establishing sanitary measures to contain the advance of the coronavirus.
In the face of the president's absurdities, which even contradicted the recommendations of his health minister, the military wing of the government, led by Defense Minister Fernando Azevedo and by the Minister of the Civil House Walter Braga Netto, intervened to maintain to maintain certain order.
This decision, which also weighed the endorsement of the president of the Chamber of Deputies Rodrigo Maia and the president of the Senate David Alcolumbre, contemplated the permanence of Luiz Henrique Mandetta as minister of health. Subsequently, this minister was dismissed .
Braga Netto, who already two years ago had stood out for reducing crime rates in Rio de Janeiro, by appearing at the headquarters of the Executive power symbolically showed the importance of military power for the stability of political power in Brazil. The intention was to reflect a solid State.
¿Pierde protagonism Bolsonaro?
According to some media, the military's actions were aimed at reducing Bolsonaro's presence in the country's administration. Some even inferred that, although the president was not leaving office to maintain the image , the administrative burden of the presidency was to be carried by other state entities.
Despite the growth in the number of infections, to the point of becoming the second nation with those infected, the president so far the president has not left the attitude of denial towards the pandemic, a position similar to that taken by US President Donald Trump.

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Mass graves in Brazil. Photo: France24

It is no coincidence that the United States and Brazil are currently at the top of the global list of people infected and killed by Covid-19.
Some believe that Brazil's president may have influenced the increase in cases while rejecting mandatory quarantine to try to curb its economic impact.
This originated a false security in the population that, to a great extent, was folded to the denial of social distancing. Part of the institutional conflict stems from dismissing the measures imposed by the governors of the affected states.
That three health ministers have passed since the start of the pandemic demonstrates the institutional weakness to face the crisis.
After Luiz Henrique Mandetta, the health portfolio was assumed by Nelson Teich , who also resigned due to differences with Bolsonaro. Currently, the ministry is led by the military Eduardo Pazuello, whose only experience in the area was accompanying Teich as vice minister.
However, the political crisis that Brazil is going through is not limited solely to the Ministry of Health.
Justice Minister Sérgio Moro also resigned after accusing Bolsonaro of boycotting allegations of corruption. "The former judge explained that he resigns due to the dismissal of the director general of the Federal Police, Mauricio Valeixo, and mentioned the need to have autonomy to exercise his functions," says the BBC .

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Sérgio Moro and Jair Bolsonaro. Photo: The Brazilian Report

This outgoing judge was once a positive image for the country for being the anti-corruption figure and building part of the hard core of Bolsonaro, who came to power driven by anti-Workers Party (PT) sentiment.
Recall that Moro was in charge of condemning Lula da Silva of course "money laundering" and with this his political image grew.
The disaster in the health system and the instability of the cabinet in general make the figure of President Bolsonaro increasingly weaker. Added to this is the possibility of an impeachment being applied to them, since they have few allies in Congress .
For his part, Rodrigo Maia, president of the Chamber of Deputies, for the time being prefers to focus attention on the coronavirus crisis as he considers it “worrying and alarming”, but he does not completely rule out that he may change his mind when faced with any of the impeachment requests filed against Bolsonaro.
In recent months, the thesis that the government is facing other powers has come to life. Currently, processes against Bolsonaro are advancing in the Supreme Federal Court (STF) and in the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), which represents another additional element that is added to the siege against the president.
The image is also projected that the executive in this last stage is being sustained by the military power. However, this is not a guarantee that they are in favor of Jair Bolsonaro, but rather that they seek to contain the crisis caused by the coronavirus.
The Brazilian state is currently debating between the health crisis and politics.
It can be said that both problems were caused by the irresponsible policy of the president, or that the second was the consequence of the first.
The truth is that managing the pandemic is a time bomb that could affect the entire region. For now, removing Bolsonaro from the presidency is not the rush, but containing the coronavirus in the short term, and for that it is necessary to assume the corresponding functions with responsibility.

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How The FBI “Toppled Presidents” In Brazil

Natalia Viana, editor from the respected Brazilian investigative journalism site Agência Pública, recently published a 5 part series based on information shared from leaked Telegram conversations revealed by Intercept Brasil as part of the Vaza Jato scandal.

In the series, she shows how Lava Jato task force director, public prosecutor Deltan Dallagnol, received financial compensation through an asset sharing scheme based on kickbacks from fines that the US Government collected from Brazilian companies and individuals. According to Viana, during a meeting in which they negotiated the asset sharing deal, Deltan received a cash payment. In a leaked message Dallagnol says, “yesterday we spoke with them about ‘assets sharing’ of fines associated with the actions against Petrobras, and there is a positive perspective in some of these values. ‘Asset sharing’ is an elegant term for division of the cash.”

Viana recently explained some of the key points of her series in a 28 point thread, full of links and citations. The entire sequence is reproduced here in English as follows:

1) Communications between Deltan Dallagnol and the US Department of Justice go back to at least 2015. In February of that year, Attorney General Rodrido Janot traveled with Dallagnol and other public prosecutors to the USA to present the investigation to authorities and negotiate a judicial partnership deal.

2) George “Ren” McEchern, then-chief of the FBI’s International Corruption Unit, said that the FBI started “looking for countries that could invite FBI agents into analyze corruption investigations that have a connection to the United States,” in 2014.

3) In October 2015, Dallagnol and his colleagues coordinated a visit by DOJ prosecutors and FBI agents, who gave them an “excellent briefing about plea bargain testimony”. In return, they were introduced to the lawyers from defendants who were negotiating plea bargain deals in the cases against Odebrecht and Petrobras.

4) The Lava Jato task force hid this visit from the federal government. Eduardo Cardozo, who was Justice Minister at the time, told Agência Pública that he got scared. “I was warned by the Federal Police that there was an American team in Curitiba establishing a dialogue with authorities. The Federal Police asked me if we had authorized this. I hadn’t heard anything about it.” Cardozo said that he challenged Attorney General Rodrigo Janot, who assured that it was “an exclusively non-functional activity” with “some kind of academic purpose”.

5) Any visit of this sort that is not authorized by the Justice Ministry is illegal. However, when questioned by the Justice Ministry, Lava Jato prosecutors assured them that it was not a “due diligence” and hid the names of the FBI agents who were in the entourage “in order not to cause problems” with the American government.

6) Documents obtained by Intercept Brazil show that the American agents were going to Curitiba to “gather additional evidence about the Petrobras case” and “talk to lawyers about their clients’ cooperation with the investigation underway in the USA”.

7) After the visit, prosecutors suggested ways for the US to bypass the Federal Supreme Court to interrogate Brazilians. A Telegram message reads“ Now we have a way to convince companies and individuals to reveal facts: threatening to inform‘ the American authorities ’about corruption and international crimes (laughs)”.

8) Afterwords, the Attorney General was scared when he discovered that the Americans were already interrogating witnesses to the case in the United States. At this point, Dallagnol tells him it is too late to go back: “The USA has the knife and cheese in its hands,” he says on Telegram.

9) The following year, DOJ prosecutors and FBI agents returned to Brazil to interrogate the first Lava Jato whistle blowers. This time they came with a signed judicial collaboration agreement (MLAT). In RJ, they listened to Nestor Cerveró and Paulo Roberto Costa for 9 hours each.

10) During this visit, they also passed through Curitiba, where they listened to the money changer Alexandre Yousseff for six hours, as well as Agosthilde Mônaco de Carvalho, a former adviser to Cerveró who worked on the purchase of the Pasadena refinery, in Texas.

11) In October 2015, US Government representatives began saying, in closed meetings, that they were thinking about imposing a $1.6 billion fine on Petrobras.

12) During the second visit, Dallagnol appeared pleased: “Yesterday we spoke with them about ‘assets sharing’ of fines associated with the actions against Petrobras,” he said on Telegram, “and there is a positive perspective in some of these values. ‘Asset sharing’ is an elegant term for division of the cash.”

13) From that point forwards, Brazilian prosecutors discussed the possibility of using a portion of these fines to create a foundation over which they would have an obvious influence, which would support anti-corruption projects and training.

14) At the same time, Dallagnol and Roberson Pozzobom discussed opening a company to operate in the same field: “We are going to organize conventions and events and profit from them, OK?” Dallagnol wrote to his wife.

15) Their proximity led Brazilian prosecutors to use the partnership to try to raise more funds. At one point, they contacted a Singapore based company so that they could involve the DOJ and “increase the value”, according to Dallagnol.

16) I did a lot of research on Leslie Backschies, who now coordinates the FBI’s International Corruption Unit. She is fluent in Portuguese and her middle name is “Rodrigues”. Her first recorded visit to Brazil is in 2012, when she came to train Brazilian Military Police agents for the World Cup.

17) Leslie Baskschies also came to the 2015 meeting, but did not return in 2016. But she was well known to the prosecutors: Thame and Dallagnol speak fondly of her.

18) At an event in São Paulo in 2019, Ren McEchern said Backschies was sent to Brazil in 2014 to assist in the Lava Jato investigations. In another lecture, McEchern praised his former employee for doing “tremendous work” that was “fundamental for the FBI”.

19) Backschies rose up the ranks in the FBI after acting in the Lava Jato cases: she became head of the 4 FBI units that investigate international corruption and said to the AP: “We saw a lot of activity in South America – Odebrecht, Petrobras. We have had a lot of work there”

20) It is worth mentioning the role of other FBI agents. Patrick Kramer, for example, worked in the Gulf War and spent six months at the São Paulo Consulate working on “corruption cases” in 2016. All signs indicate that he served as an intermediary with Lava Jato prosecutors.

21) One of the most controversial Telegram conversations is an exchange, perhaps the most incisive, between Vladimir Aras, from the Brazilian Attorney General’s Office with Deltan Dallagnol. Arras is a specialist in international cooperation and warned Deltan that it was illegal to communicate directly with the American government.

22) Why is this relationship problematic? First of all, it is important to understand that under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the US Department of Justice conducts the investigation. [Unlike in Brazil] there is no separation in the USA between public prosecutors and the executive branch of government.

23) According to an Associated Press report based on an interview with Leslie Baskschies, Brazilian public prosecutors and the FBI spoke every 15 days to talk about the political and economic consequences of the investigations.

24) In the interview, Baskchies says: “When you’re looking at foreign officials in other governments — I mean, look, in Malaysia, the president wasn’t re-elected. We saw presidents toppled in Brazil. These are the results of cases like this.”

25) It is not, therefore, as, as ex-judge Sergio Moro put it last week, an issue of whether the DOJ or the CIA is at fault if a politician is caught paying bribes.

26) The question is more fundamental: can a government from another country be invited to investigate bribes that have occurred between Brazilian companies and Brazilian citizens, to punish them in their country? And worse, can it do this without being questioned by authorities or the press?

27) These questions are fundamental for any country to reflect on regarding its role in the world. No self-respecting journalist can ignore the geopolitical issues that touch, transform and shape the history and destiny of the people in their country.

28) It is worth remembering that, as Jair Bolsonaro’s Justice Minister, former Lava Jato judge Sergio Moro opened the doors even wider for the FBI, giving it access to a checkpoint on the triple border between Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, which is a strategic point used by the USA under the pretext of fighting international terrorism.

This article originally appeared in Brasil 247, was translated by Brian Mier, and can be read in Portuguese here.

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Post by blindpig » Thu Aug 13, 2020 1:08 pm

Brazil: Eviction of families in MST camp suspended

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Despite the suspension of the eviction of peasant families, operations could resume this Thursday | Photo: @MST_Oficial

Published 12 August 2020

The families of the Quilombo Campo Grande camp, of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) in Minas Gerais warned this Wednesday that they will remain on alert in the presence of the police and security forces in the area.

The MST indicated that despite the local government's announcement to interrupt the eviction operation during the pandemic, the security forces maintain a threatening attitude towards peasant families.

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The governor of Minas Gerais reported the suspension of the eviction operations of families and the Eduardo Galeano School in the Quilombo camp.

The governor's decision was received as a victory by the 450 families who have lived and worked for 23 years in the camp located in Campos Gerais (MG).

According to the governor's press office, last Tuesday a request was made to suspend compliance with reintegration, together with other entities, including the OAB Human Rights Commission and the State Council for Human Rights, but it was not accepted.

In a statement on Twitter, Governor Zema also said that the Personal Development Secretariat is available to provide technical support to social assistance managers in the municipality.

The leader of the MST, João Pedro Stedile, claimed the position of Governor Zema. “After mobilizing a whole battalion, in times of pandemic, with their dogs and judicial cocktails, they happily created a sentence and suspended the eviction in Minas. Once again, in this pandemic, it was solidarity and humanity that defeated the genocides, ”he posted on Twitter.

The governor's announcement came after a day of intense virtual, political, and resistance mobilization by those camped in the area.

Despite the suspension of the eviction of peasant families, operations could resume this Thursday.

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Brazil registers more than 104,000 deaths from Covid-19 in six months

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The total number of deaths reached 104,201, although the figure could be higher since there are 3,454 deaths under investigation. | Photo: EFE

Published 13 August 2020

There are currently six Brazilian states with an upward trend in the number of deaths from coronavirus in Brazil.

Brazil registered 55,155 new infections and 1,175 deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours, according to the balance of the health authorities.

According to the National Council of Health Secretaries (Conass), the total number of infections rose to 3,164,785, while the accumulated deaths reached 104,201.

Despite the figures posted on the last day, the daily average of deaths is the lowest for 40 days after analyzing the numbers for the last week.

In the last week, the average number of deaths has been 978, although since the end of May the figures have been hovering and sometimes exceeding the thousand deaths per day.

Currently there are six Brazilian states with an upward trend in the number of deaths (Amazonas, Amapá, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso del Sur, Santa Catarina and Tocantins)

Another 12 states have maintained their numbers stable, and nine have presented a decrease in the number of deceased, including Sao Paulo, the epicenter of the pandemic in Brazil.

The governor of the state of Sao Paulo, Joao Doria, confirmed this Wednesday that he tested positive for Covid-19 and increased to 11 the highest local authorities affected by the virus.



Doria communicated on social networks that he is asymptomatic to the disease and that he feels fine, "I am going home following the medical protocol, and from there I will maintain my relationship with all sectors of the government," he said.

The governor urged the population to respect social isolation and predicted that 'all this will happen, the vaccine will arrive and Brazil will be free' of the coronavirus.

Doria said on Tuesday that positive progress has been seen in the testing of the vaccine by Chinese biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech, in partnership with the Butantan Institute in Sao Paulo.

"By the end of the year, if there are no incidents in the third phase of the tests, we will be able to start the production of the vaccine in December and immediately begin vaccinating millions of Brazilians," added Doria.

Brazil is currently testing human volunteers from the Federal District (DF) and five states of the potential vaccine that uses inactivated viral cells to stimulate an immune response in patients.

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