Threat of Military Action Rattles Brazil

New York Times: “The threats are swirling around the president: Deaths from the virus in Brazil each day are now the highest in the world. Investors are fleeing the country. The president, his sons and his allies are under investigation. His election could even be overturned.”

“The crisis has grown so intense that some of the most powerful military figures in Brazil are warning of instability — sending shudders that they could take over and dismantle Latin America’s largest democracy.”

“But far from denouncing the idea, President Jair Bolsonaro’s inner circle seems to be clamoring for the military to step into the fray.”

Theo Dias: “Brazil has become the new epicenter of Covid-19… The situation is compounded by the disastrous attitude of the President of the Republic who, in his obsession for power, has placed Brazil in the small and caricatured group of nations governed by pandemic denialists.”