Brazilians Forced to Self-Organize While Political Elites Use Pandemic as Chance to Rewrite Rules

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With over 920,000 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus and at least 45,000 related deaths, the highly contagious virus is far from “under control” in Brazil. One expert tells Sputnik that despite this and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s lack of leadership the self-organization of vulnerable Brazilians persists.

“They clearly see the pandemic as an opportunity,” Juliana Moraes, executive director of the Washington Brazil Office, a project of the US Network for Democracy in Brazil, told Loud and Clear producer Nicole Roussell on Tuesday. Moraes spoke to Roussell regarding those elite individuals who hold power in Brazil.

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