EFE.- The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, said this Saturday that the country is experiencing a “dictatorship” due to the restrictions that some regions of the country have implemented to avoid Covid-19 contagions, and compared them with the “freedoms denied” by the “regime” of Nicolas Maduro on Venezuela.
The statements were made during a visit by the far-right leader to a favela located on the outskirts of Brasilia, where several Venezuelan citizens live who fled for the economic and social crisis from the neighboring country.
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“You here are also living in Brazil an experience that seems a bit like dictatorship, with that policy of ‘stay at home’ ”, assured the Brazilian president during the meeting, which was broadcast on social networks.
“Brazilian people, look what you have and what you can lose,” he said. Bolsonaro while pointing at the Venezuelans. “They left the regime that, little by little, was taking away their freedom,” he said.
“Brazil is not going to become a VenezuelaRest assured of that ”, he pointed out.
Without using face mask, the Brazilian president once again criticized the measures that reduce mobility in some regions of the country and said that Brazil it is “reaching the limit”, since these policies only seek to “suffocate” the economy.
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Bolsonaro, 65 years old, and who was already infected with Covid-19, is one of the most denialist leaders in the face of the seriousness of the pandemic And since the arrival of the virus in the country, more than a year ago, it has harshly questioned the measures of social isolation imposed to a greater or lesser degree by the governors of the 27 states of Brazil.
“I have the power to force a ‘lockdown’ on everything Brazil, just by using my pen, but it won’t be done. (…) Our Army will never go out to the streets to force them to stay at home, never! Our army (will not do) anything against their individual freedom ”, emphasized the leader.
With about 350 thousand deaths from the Covid-19 and more than 13.3 million infected, Brazil is one of the countries hardest hit by pandemic nowadays.
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