vaccine fake news, Pinochet praise and homophobic jokes

“Young people dying with Pfizer” was one of the messages Bolsonaro sent through the messaging app.

“Risks – we must investigate! Young people are dying of cardiac arrest,” he said, accompanied by a video in which also appears the caption “Bolsonaro is right”.

The video reproduces an intervention by commentator Cristina Graeml, in the program “Los Puntos en las les” of the radio station Jovem Pan, in which she refers to five cases of teenagers who recently died, although two of these deaths mentioned are people who had not been vaccinated.

One of the main lines of research of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (ICC) Regarding the coronavirus, it concerns the delay in the federal government’s purchase of the Pfizer vaccine. According to information gathered so far, the Ministry of Health has left 86 emails sent by the pharmaceutical company unanswered.

These messages from the ultra-conservative president are just a few of those broadcast between Thursday of last week and Wednesday via a newly acquired issue, according to O Globo.

The outlet also ensured that different people around him were receiving the same content, including other important officials, indicating that the using a mailing list.

Last Thursday, for example, he posted a video praising the Chilean dictator Auguste Pinochet and he hinted that if the left returned to power, Brazil would face a “worrying fate”.

“When Chileans see what communism is, when they understand the tricks, the deception, how they cheat, they will realize that this government is right,” Pinochet says in the video which includes footage from recent protests in Chile .

Then it comes back to Pinochet who concludes: “It was never a dictatorship, gentlemen. It is a soft dictatorship (soft dictatorship). then we will look back “.

Bolsonaro accompanies this material with an inscription which says “forward” and adds: “Pinochet / Chile / 1982, Cuba, Venezuela, Argentina, B … (?)”.

Messages sent from the same number also feature homophobic jokes.

For example, last Monday he mocked irony when he shared content that shows people apparently protesting for the rights of the LGBT community burning a Brazilian flag.

This was not the only message of prejudice. At dawn last Sunday, Bolsonaro sent a video in which the musician Rogério Skylab recounts having had homosexual relations without considering himself to be gay.

“I’ve done it three times already, but I’m heterosexual,” said the artist and the full chair: “Up to three times you can.”

Bolsonaro also criticized the former president Lula already China. On Wednesday, the president sent his contacts a video with the inscription: “Lula has corrupted himself to lie to the world that China is an example.”

The video, split in two, shows the leader of the Workers Party (PT) stating that the Asian giant is “an example of development for the world” and, at the same time, dead dogs that are sold for food, as well as a child beaten by a purported teacher inside the classroom.