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Brasília (AFP) - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro railed against the country's lockdown Sunday in a speech to thousands of anti-confinement demonstrators as the number of confirmed COVID-19 infections passed 100,000, with more than 7,000 deaths.Bolsonaro blamed state governors for continuing the lockdown in a speech outside his presidential palace in…

On The Listening Post this week: Brazil's President Bolsonaro and COVID-19 misinformation. Plus, how well has the WHO performed as a key information source during the pandemic? Brazil's Bolsonaro: Turning COVID-19 denial into media spectacle A president at odds with his advisers and scientists over COVID-19, who has said the…

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro greeting Alexandre Ramagem during his inauguration ceremony as the new general director of the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN) in Brasilia, Brazil A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Wednesday blocked President Jair Bolsonaro's pick to run the federal police, after an opposition party argued that the appointment…

RIO DE JANEIRO — President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil was struggling to govern effectively long before the explosive resignation speech of his star cabinet minister, who basically called his soon-to-be former boss a criminal. Mr. Bolsonaro became a president without a political party in November, after falling out with leaders…

Brazil has held collective burials for those who have died of coronavirus Brazil has reported 407 deaths from the coronavirus in 24 hours, the highest daily toll since the pandemic began, the Health Ministry said on Thursday. The most populous country in Latin America and the region's largest economy, Brazil…

Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, who has dismissed covid-19 as “sniffles”, spoke outside the army’s headquarters at a rally against lockdowns. Some of the protesters called for a shutdown of Congress and the Supreme Court and urged the army to take control of the pandemic response. Mr Bolsonaro has said: “Really,…

Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, who has dismissed covid-19 as “sniffles”, spoke outside the army’s headquarters at a rally against lockdowns. Some of the protesters called for a shutdown of Congress and the Supreme Court and urged the army to take control of the pandemic response. Mr Bolsonaro has said: “Really,…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Last month, Dr. Riane Azevedo pulled off a master stroke. The superintendent of the largest public hospital in the poor Brazilian state of Ceara managed to procure a highly sought-after cache of ventilators to treat the new coronavirus patients overwhelming her intensive care unit.But just…

London (CNN Business)Strongman leaders around the world are using the coronavirus crisis to stifle journalists, a leading press freedom watchdog has warned, as it bemoaned a missed opportunity to highlight the severity of the outbreak in its early days in Wuhan, China.Reporters Without Borders (RSF) criticized China for censoring early…

Jair Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil, has come out in public to support hundreds of people defending military rule and protesting against stay-at-home orders issued by state governors to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. The crowd of about 600 people gathered in front of the army's headquarters in…