Brazil’s twin catastrophes: the virus and the president
Brazil faces two disasters: the pandemic of coronavirus,
and the pandemonium of the Bolsonaro government. The first is invisible and
highly contagious but should only last...
Brazil’s disaster movie
Watching the Brazilian political scene is a
bit like watching an old disaster movie, where a suicidal maniac has taken over
the plane’s controls and put...
Bolsonaro the grave-digger
April 23 2020. I'm not a gravedigger’ said President Jair Bolsonaro scornfully, when a reporter tried to question him about the number of coronavirus...
Brazil: the parallel universe of Messias Bolsonaro
It was billed as an important presidential announcement, and his ministers stood behind him, dark suited, hands clasped in front of them like a...
Bolsonaro: quack doctor
15 May 2020. As Brazil lurches from one political crisis to another, the death toll rises steadily, making it the new epicentre of the...
A bad week for Bolsonaro
21 June 2020. It would be an understatement to say this has been a bad week for Bolsonaro. In fact it has been disastrous....
Bolsonaro — the new Jim Jones
President Bolsonaro is the new 'Jim Jones', says Jan Rocha, comparing the Brazilian president to the cult leader who led his followers in a mass suicide in Guayana in 1978.
Brazil: diversity does well, but the moderates are the winners
Bolsonaro and his brand of extreme right wing politics have emerged as the big losers in Brazil’s recent local elections, but established left wing parties have not done so well either. Jan Rocha reports.
Public Enemy No.1 is Jair Bolsonaro
All over the world leaders have celebrated the beginning of vaccination in their countries, some of them taking the first jab themselves. But when the first vaccines were administered in São Paulo on Sunday, Jair Bolsonaro sulked in silence in his palace.
Bolsonaro is a double danger to the world
By letting Covid multiply Brazil's president endangers the whole world. As do his policies which promote the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Lula has been exonerated. Will he now run in 2022?