Latin America General : Corona Carnaval

[Kilobugya]

Bolsonaro says military would follow his orders to "take the streets"

So autogolpe in preparation, to avoid being impeached for his catastrophic handling of Covid and/or badly defeated by Lula in next year's elections ? I really hope the military will not obey, but I fear the worse.

[Shrillland]

Bolsonaro says military would follow his orders to "take the streets"

So autogolpe in preparation, to avoid being impeached for his catastrophic handling of Covid and/or badly defeated by Lula in next year's elections ? I really hope the military will not obey, but I fear the worse.

He's basically purged or driven any disloyal officers to resignation at this point.

[Kowani]

UN, Venezuela reach deal to
to directly provide meals to 185,000 children

Venezuela’s government and the United Nations’ food program have reached a deal for the international agency to directly provide meals for children in the South American country.
School children have been acutely affected by the food scarcity and high food prices in Venezuela. Some have fainted or even died from hunger or from eating poisonous tubers when they try to forage for meals.

But Nicolás Maduro’s regime refused to take food aid for years, trying to prop up its own food subsidy program, called CLAP.
CLAP boxes have been found to contain powdered milk that isn’t actually milk, while the program has been denounced by the U.S. Treasury Department as a front for profiteering from food imports.
The World Food Programme said its goal is to reach 185,000 students by the end of the year and 1.5 million by the end of the 2022-2023 school year.

[Rio Cana]

Bolsonaro says military would follow his orders to "take the streets"

So autogolpe in preparation, to avoid being impeached for his catastrophic handling of Covid and/or badly defeated by Lula in next year's elections ? I really hope the military will not obey, but I fear the worse.

The Brazilian leader has destroyed Brazils image in the world. The massive mishandling of this vital health issue in Brazil makes Brazil look third world.

[Nakena]

Bolsonaro says military would follow his orders to "take the streets"

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday that if he were to order the military to take the streets and restore order, “the order will be followed,” raising fresh questions about his politicization of the armed forces.

Speaking during a TV interview, Bolsonaro said he would not "go into details into what I'm preparing." But he said that "if we were to have problems, we have a plan of how to enter the field ... our armed forces could one day go into the streets."

I doubt that somehow. The military has more than likely enough of his antics, recent resignations happened for a reason. In the end he may get couped out himself. The guy is crackers.

[Kowani]

Bolsonaro says military would follow his orders to "take the streets"

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday that if he were to order the military to take the streets and restore order, “the order will be followed,” raising fresh questions about his politicization of the armed forces.

Speaking during a TV interview, Bolsonaro said he would not "go into details into what I'm preparing." But he said that "if we were to have problems, we have a plan of how to enter the field ... our armed forces could one day go into the streets."

I doubt that somehow. The military has more than likely enough of his antics, recent resignations happened for a reason. In the end he may get couped out himself. The guy is crackers.

the question is, are those who replaced the resignees loyal enough to bolsonaro to attempt to go along with it, or not?
i don't know

(and of course, a military coup in brazil would be problematic for all kinds of reasons)

[Kowani]

shoutout to Chile's Piñera, who managed to get a 9% approval rating

[Shrillland]

shoutout to Chile's Piñera, who managed to get a 9% approval rating

The vaccine rollout's been a disaster down there from what I can gather...mostly because we're all hogging it for ourselves...and people wonder why Chile's getting a new constitution.

[Nakena]

shoutout to Chile's Piñera, who managed to get a 9% approval rating

The vaccine rollout's been a disaster down there from what I can gather...mostly because we're all hogging it for ourselves...and people wonder why Chile's getting a new constitution.

Wasnt the rollout in Chile being a sucess story? Seems MSM is telling different stories?

[Shrillland]

The vaccine rollout's been a disaster down there from what I can gather...mostly because we're all hogging it for ourselves...and people wonder why Chile's getting a new constitution.

Wasnt the rollout in Chile being a sucess story? Seems MSM is telling different stories?

Ah, my mistake, you're right...to an extent: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/19/covid-chiles-coronavirus-cases-hit-record-levels-despite-vaccine-rollout.html

It is pretty high, but they're also using the Sinovac vaccine, which is middling to the classic strain and nearly useless on some of the newer ones, particularly the P.1 from Brazil. Consequently, new infections are at their highest rates of the entire pandemic at this time.

[Kowani]

Arce begins massive vaccine rollout, with an additional 1 million Sinopharm doses to arrive up until May 15th, on top of the already existing Pfizer (92K) and Sputnik (200K) doses already in the country

[Kilobugya]

Arce begins massive vaccine rollout, with an additional 1 million Sinopharm doses to arrive up until May 15th, on top of the already existing Pfizer (92K) and Sputnik (200K) doses already in the country

That's good in theory but I'm a bit worried since AFAIK the Sinopharm vaccine is not very efficient against the Bolsonaro variant... and Bolivia borders Brazil.

[Kowani]

Pedro Castillo(Peru Libre's candidate in the upcoming presidential elections) has respiratory problems and is being taken to the hospital

[Arisyan]

Pedro Castillo(Peru Libre's candidate in the upcoming presidential elections) has respiratory problems and is being taken to the hospital

Oh sh*t. What happens if he dies? Does his running mates go on to become the Free Peru candidate? Or do they hold another election?

[Kowani]

Pedro Castillo(Peru Libre's candidate in the upcoming presidential elections) has respiratory problems and is being taken to the hospital

Oh sh*t. What happens if he dies? Does his running mates go on to become the Free Peru candidate? Or do they hold another election?

unknown
if i find n article answering that question, i will let you know

[Kilobugya]

Pedro Castillo(Peru Libre's candidate in the upcoming presidential elections) has respiratory problems and is being taken to the hospital

According to his Twitter account https://twitter.com/PedroCastilloTe it was a throat infection, he's doing fine, will leave hospital today or tomorrow, and will participate in the debate with Keiko Fujimori this week-end.

[Arisyan]

Pedro Castillo(Peru Libre's candidate in the upcoming presidential elections) has respiratory problems and is being taken to the hospital

According to his Twitter account https://twitter.com/PedroCastilloTe it was a throat infection, he's doing fine, will leave hospital today or tomorrow, and will participate in the debate with Keiko Fujimori this week-end.

Phew! I panicked there for a bit. Respiratory problems in a pandemic entered around a virus that gives you respiratory problems is not something you want, but im glad he's fine.

[Bear Stearns]

I'm jealous of my mother. A few years ago she acquired citizenship in a large Latin American country after moving there for a job. Now she's just riding out covid in a tropical paradise while I'm stuck in a locked down city full of power tripping sociopaths

[Kowani]

Bolsonaro's son is currently being investigated for corruption, Supreme Court rules he can't use executive privilege to protect himself

[Kowani]

Rio de Janeiro governor Wilson Witzel becomes first state governor to be impeached for corruption in Brazil's history

[Arisyan]

Rio de Janeiro governor Wilson Witzel becomes first state governor to be impeached for corruption in Brazil's history

woohooo! About time. So, how do they choose a new Governor? Election, or just replace him with his deputy.

[Kowani]

Rio de Janeiro governor Wilson Witzel becomes first state governor to be impeached for corruption in Brazil's history

woohooo! About time. So, how do they choose a new Governor? Election, or just replace him with his deputy.

replaced by his deputy, Cláudio Castro

[Kowani]

El Salvadoran Congress vote s to remove the nation's top judges

On Saturday, the legislative assembly voted to dismiss all the justices in the Supreme Court’s constitutional chamber for issuing “arbitrary” decisions. The lawmakers also voted to dismiss Attorney General Raul Melara, considered close to an opposition party.

Bukele’s Nuevas Ideas (New Ideas) party and its allies hold an absolute majority in the chamber after they overwhelmingly won legislative polls in February.

“And the people of El Salvador, through their representatives, said: DISMISSED!” Bukele tweeted following the vote. Elisa Rosales, a New Ideas legislative leader, said the move was needed to address COVID-19.

She said there is “clear evidence” that the five judges had impeded the government’s health strategy and that lawmakers had to remove them to protect the public. Just minutes after the vote, the judges responded with a ruling that the congressional decision was unconstitutional, setting up a clash of the country’s top powers.
Several human rights groups and experts have sounded the alarm, accusing the president of leading El Salvador into a political crisis.


“Bukele is breaking with the rule of law and seeks to concentrate all power in his hands,” Jose Miguel Vivanco, executive director of Human Rights Watch’s Americas division, said on Twitter.

“It is a situation which carries a profound risk. It [Congress] is playing with fire and may deepen this crisis to such a magnitude that we will not be able to get out of it,” Miguel Montenegro, coordinator of the human rights commission, told the AFP news agency.

The Organization of American States also said it condemned the dismissal of the judges, saying “the fullest respect for the democratic rule of law is essential”.

“I condemn the steps that the political power has been taking to dismantle and weaken the judicial independence of the magistrates by dismissing members of the Constitutional Chamber,” Diego Garcia-Sayan, UN special rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, also tweeted after the vote. Civil society groups had warned ahead of the February 28 elections that if Bukele’s party did well, the results could speed up the deterioration of the country’s democratic institutions. But many voters expressed frustration with more traditional political parties that had maintained control in El Salvador since the end of the country’s 12-year civil war in 1992 – and said they supported Bukele’s party because it promised to tackle corruption.

Just after midnight on Sunday, Bukele said on Twitter that while El Salvador wants to work with the international community, it should butt out of the country’s affairs.

“To our friends in the International Community: We want to work with you, trade, travel, get to know each other and help where we can. Our doors are more open than ever. But with all due respect: We are cleaning our house … and this is none of your business,” he tweeted.

Nevertheless, Salvadoran opposition legislators accused Nuevas Ideas of carrying out an attempted “coup”. “What happened last night in the Legislative Assembly, with a majority that the people gave them through the vote, is a coup,” said right-wing Arena Party lawmaker Rene Portillo.

US lawmakers and officials from President Joe Biden’s administration also condemned the vote.

Earlier this week, the Biden administration pledged $310m in aid to El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala to stem the tide of migration towards the United States.

“Let us be clear: this is not democracy, this is the destruction of an independent judiciary and the rule of law,” Congressman Jim McGovern tweeted, while Juan Gonzalez, Biden’s senior adviser for Latin America, said: “This is not what you do.” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday that he had spoken with Bukele to raise “serious concerns” about the congressional vote. “Democratic governance requires respecting the separation of powers, for the good of all Salvadorans,” Blinken tweeted.

[Arisyan]

SNIP

Woohoo! More democratic backsliding!

[Borderlands of Rojava]

Bolsonaro says military would follow his orders to "take the streets"

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday that if he were to order the military to take the streets and restore order, “the order will be followed,” raising fresh questions about his politicization of the armed forces.

Speaking during a TV interview, Bolsonaro said he would not "go into details into what I'm preparing." But he said that "if we were to have problems, we have a plan of how to enter the field ... our armed forces could one day go into the streets."

I would lol so hard if instead they couped him.