The huge fires that hit the Amazon rain forest moved the planet in August 2019 and put the government of Jair Bolsonaro under pressure. And Brazil is now facing the coronavirus pandemic, which is hitting it hard, with more than 40,000 dead. This is the subject treated this week by the cartoonists of Cartooning for Peace.

Thursday evening June 11, the country's health ministry recorded an additional 1,239 deaths in 24 hours, raising the total toll to 40,919 deaths in the country since the start of the epidemic. The country is now the third worst affected by the epidemic, after the United States and the United Kingdom, and only the United States has reported more confirmed cases of contamination than Brazil.

To illustrate this pain, the French designer Lasserpe has chosen to represent an Amazonian native who, after seeing the forest burn, must now once again undergo deforestation for the manufacture of coffins.

Cartooning for Peace is an international network of cartoonists committed to promoting, through the universality of press cartoons, freedom of expression, human rights and mutual respect between populations of different cultures or beliefs.

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