Brazil’s mismanagement of covid-19 threatens the world
Jair Bolsonaro has a lot to answer for
SéRGIO OLíMPIO GOMES, better known as Major Olímpio, was a policeman who entered politics 15 years ago. In 2018 he managed the campaign in the state of São Paulo of Brazil’s current president, Jair Bolsonaro, and was elected to the national Senate. On March 18th this year he died of covid-19, aged 58. He is the third sitting senator to have died from the disease. Nearly 4% of the legislature’s upper house has perished in the pandemic.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Variants on a theme of disaster”
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