Special report | Brazil
The captain and his country
Brazil is backsliding. Politicians, businesses and voters must act before it is too late, says Sarah Maslin
ONE DAY in April, as Brazilian hospitals ran out of oxygen and 3,000 people a day were dying from covid-19, Jair Bolsonaro’s 64-year-old chief of staff, Luiz Eduardo Ramos, got jabbed. It was his turn but he went in secret. His boss is anti-vaccine. When asked why Brazil was blocking approval for the Pfizer vaccine, the president joked that jabs turn people into crocodiles.
This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline “The captain and his country”
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