RÍO DE JANEIRO (DPA) .- The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, published today on his social networks the screenshot of a note published in the newspaper Or Balloon that describes the complicated social and economic situation in Argentina due to the coronavirus pandemic. With no other mention than the caption photo, which says “Epidemic of disillusionment: the upper middle class of Argentina seeks to emigrate to escape the crisis”, The right-wing president again criticized the management of Alberto Fernandez.
This is not the first time he has done it. More comfortable with the administration of former President Mauricio Macri, the Brazilian did not welcome the change of government in December 2019 and also harshly criticized the President’s decision to enable the debate on the legalization of abortion, which ended in law.
“They took out [Mauricio] Macri and the result is that. Argentine people, I regret it, it is what you deserve “, Bolsonaro claimed in October last year during a live broadcast on Facebook. In addition, a defender of not closing the country to contain the outbreak, he never approved the isolation that prevailed in Argentina or the closure of shops and schools to contain infections.
Even one of his sons, Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, repudiated the quarantine dictated by the Fernández government months ago and described it as a “calamity.” “Every day we see that Jair Bolsonaro was right when he predicted that the situation in Argentina would turn into a calamity,” indicated last September.
Despite the historical strategic relationship between the two countries, the link between Michel Temer’s successor and his Argentine counterpart is not fluid. Even at the beginning of the year, there were several frictions due to commercial issues that were settled after the visit of the Argentine ambassador to Brazil, the former governor of Buenos Aires Daniel Scioli, to Bolsonaro. At that meeting, the Brazilian promised to improve ties and, among other things, said that he would not reduce the purchase of Argentine wheat despite having enabled the importation of 750 thousand tons of wheat without tariffs outside Mercosur.
On this occasion, Bolsonaro’s criticism of Argentina is through a note that recounts several stories of Argentines who decided to leave the country in search of opportunities in other places, given the current crisis due to Covid-19, which affected in a way strong national economy. According to the article, “there is a strong trend towards a new exodus of Argentines” and “for analysts, After the failure of Macri and the deepening of the recession with the health crisis, the country is experiencing an ‘epidemic of disillusionment’ “.
The situation in Brazil
Like the world, affected by the pandemic, the country, the third in total number of positives and deaths (more than 10 million and more than 240,000, respectively), suffered a historical collapse of its economy of 9.7% in the second quarter of last year. The contraction of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), between April and June, is the largest recorded since 1996.
However, months later he achieved an improvement by confirming a upturn of 7.7% in the third quarter compared to the second, which caused it to emerge from the technical recession.
The economy was always Bolsonaro’s priority. Faced with several of his governors since the outbreak began in March of last year because he did not agree with the closures decreed and the quarantine, the Brazilian president minimized the impact of Covid-19 at the national level and said on more than one occasion that If they continue with the restriction measures, Brazilians were not going to die from coronavirus but from hunger.
Today the country carries out vaccination campaign. The Ministry of Health confirmed on Saturday the purchase of new types of vaccines despite not having been authorized by the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa).
These are two types of vaccines, the Russian Sputnik V and india Covaxin. Until now, the agency has only endorsed the emergency use of the china CoronaVac, developed by the Butantan Institute, and that of Pfizer, developed by the University of Oxford.
In total, since March last year, Brazil has 10,139,148 confirmed patients and 246,560 fatalities.
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