Brazil: Lula da Silva qualified as “genocide” on me …

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva qualified for “genocide“The death of more than half a million people from the coronavirus in Brazil, noting that these deaths were preventable because it is” a disease that already has a vaccine. “Avenues of São Paulo, Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro, in shouting “Bolsonaro out”, “Genocide” and “Vaccine in the arm and food on the plate”.

“500,000 deaths due to a disease that already has a vaccine, in a country that has already been a global benchmark in terms of vaccination. It has a name and it is genocide. My solidarity with the Brazilian people, ”the former president wrote on his Twitter account, after the health ministry confirmed on Saturday that Brazil has passed half a million deaths from covid-19, thus becoming the second country in the world to do so. , after the United States.

The record was also repudiated in the streets of São Paulo, Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro, where thousands of people demonstrated in the main avenues against President Jair Bolsonaro and his handling of the pandemic, which is under investigation by a parliamentary committee. According to the media, the same Lula, favorite in the polls for the presidential elections of 2022, wanted to participate in the march of San Pablo, but his allies advised against it to avoid larger settlements.

The main demands of the opposition include open impeachment proceedings against the president, recover emergency aid of 600 reais and advance in the vaccination against the coronavirus. Responding to criticism against him, Bolsonaro again insisted this week that vaccines are ineffective, masks are unnecessary and that the best thing would be to induce “herd immunity”, that is, to facilitate the infection of people so the virus loses its strength and gradually stops circulating.

Meanwhile, Brazil is racking up 17,883,750 coronavirus infections, of which 82,288 were detected in the past 24 hours, and 500,800 deaths, with 2,301 deaths on the last day.