Brazil: "It is not the most affected by the crisis who will demonstrate against Bolsonaro"

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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

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By: Florent Guignard

8 mins

The Indian variant made its appearance this week in Brazil.

The country has also passed the sad milestone of 450,000 official deaths due to Covid.

While a record unemployment rate was announced Friday, the day before a weekend of demonstrations across the country in a hundred cities against the government of Jair Bolsonaro.

Armelle Enders, professor at the University of Paris VIII, researcher at the French Institute of Geopolitics, author of

Histoire du Brésil,

answers Florent Guignard's questions.

  • Brazil

  • Health and medicine

  • Coronavirus

  • Jair Bolsonaro