This is a segment of episode #241 of Last Born In The Wilderness “The Perfect Storm: COVID-19, Brazil, & The Maniac At The Helm w/ Brian Mier.” Listen to the full episode: bit.ly/LBWmier2

Read ‘Bolsonaro and Coronavirus: A Tragedy Foretold’ at Brasil Wire: https://bit.ly/2WWAAIG

This is a segment of my interview with Brian Mier, co-editor at Brasil Wire and correspondent for TeleSur English. We discuss the current political situation in Brazil under far right president Jair Bolsonaro, as the nation begins to reel from the coronavirus pandemic and the wholly inadequate, and frankly psychopathic, response from President Bolsonaro. The editors at Brasil Wire starkly condemned the Brazilian president in their recent article ‘Bolsonaro and Coronavirus: A Tragedy Foretold’:

“In the past weeks, as the scale of the pandemic was already clear to the world, we have heard from Bolsonaro, his allies and his supporters that Coronavirus is a hoax, “communist”, and a “little flu”. These messages are spread on social media and invisibly on the WhatsApp platform, which was infamously the primary channel used to deliver him votes at the 2018 election. Such as sustained flow of disinformation to discourage public safety has extremely disturbing implications. The population is being encouraged to endanger itself.” (https://bit.ly/2WWAAIG)

Brian Mier is co-editor at Brasil Wire and correspondent for TeleSur English's news program From the South, and is the author/co-editor with Daniel Hunt of ‘Year of Lead: Washington, Wall Street and the New Imperialism in Brazil.’

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