Bolsonaro threatens to use army to break quarantines against pandemic

“What do we want? We want peace, progress and above all freedom. We know that this last wish is up to you. More than an obligation, you have a duty. I am sure you will act within the four lines of the Constitution if necessary. I hope that is not necessary, that we return to normality, from which we are far, said the former captain of the army, as seen in the official video of the speech.

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The far-right Brazilian leader has said he is standing up for the constitution, which governors and mayors who order quarantines do not, he said.

Accompanied by his two main palace ministers, the retired generals Walter Braga Netto (Defense) and Luiz Eduardo Ramos (chief of staff), Bolsonaro called the army just as the army plans to sanction the former health minister Eduardo Pazuello, active general, for having participated last Sunday in a political event in Rio de Janeiro with the president, after a caravan of motorcycles.

Bolsonaro’s speech also included the old ghost that there is a “well prepared and patient enemy” who seeks to take control of the biodiversity reserves in the Amazon rainforest, of which the territory is 60% owner.

Bolsonaro is in the midst of a political and popularity crisis, with polls putting him as the loser in 2022 to former president Luiz Inácio Lula da SIlva.

“We have been in government for two and a half years without corruption, not like it has happened in the last 20 years. That sort of thing needs to be factored into the 22nd vote,” he told the soldiers of the State of Amazonas. in the north of the country.