April 16, 2020 GMT
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro fired his health minister on Thursday after a series of disagreements over government efforts to contain the new coronavirus. “I just heard from the President Jair Bolsonaro the news of my dismissal from the health ministry,” Luiz Henrique Mandetta posted on his verified Twitter profile, adding that he wished success to his replacement, who is yet to be named officially. He confirmed the announcement in a press conference later.
Republicans close to the White House say Trump has complained about Fauci’s positive media attention and sought to leave him out of task force briefings. Bolsonaro, likewise, had convened doctors without inviting Mandetta and, in a televised interview earlier this month, said Mandetta had failed to show “humility.” A few days later, on April 5, Bolsonaro told a group of supporters that he would act against officials in his government who “are full of themselves.
On Wednesday, with Mandetta’s dismissal looking near certain, his health surveillance secretary Wanderson de Oliveira tendered his resignation. An epidemiologist who worked at the health ministry for more than a decade, de Oliveira presided over many of the press conferences when Mandetta was unable, and was also a booster of quarantine measures to prevent the virus’ spread.
O que esperar de um facista 🤷
Electing ignorant buffoons to run the country has become an extremely unsettling trend. The world itself can’t take more of these buggers. Trump, Boris, this guy... the list goes on.
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TrueFactsStated She is coming to visit Bolsonaro. Karma is a bitch !!
GPollowitz The current nationalist/populist/anti-globalization wave is making this virus deadlier and harder to address - covering up actual statistics, firing experts with inconvenient news, etc.
This is another ‘Donald’ who gets rid of people with intelligence and morals and does not care about their people, only pretending to care.....he could be Donald’s brother or step brother or something...seems they have the same genes.......
Sifill_LDF NoBueno
TrueFactsStated Mandetta could win the next presidential election against Bolsonaro.
TrueFactsStated Trump look-alike
The Brazilian president loves trump so he is following the great strategy of the American government..
mmmmm we love authoritarianism 😩
Everyone repeat after me “The President of Brazil is clearly mentally ill ! “
El fanatismo religioso de jairbolsonaro y sus hijos BolsonaroSP CarlosBolsonaro FlavioBolsonaro significará la muerte para muchos en Brasil Fascistas.
That is very unfortunate. What does the president have for his people then?
Sounds a lot like our own Orange Monster.
Decisive
Run against him in next election!!
Bolsonaro is looking forward to having a free hand spreading the coronavirus to as many Brazilians as possible.
You fired
Fudeu.
Well thank Putin for that.
Now it is very clear to everyone that there will be just one person to take responsibility for good results and for a potential catastrophe: the Brazilian president! Independently of the current toxic polarization, people will remember who was making decisions.
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deray The plan for fascists to imperil more people's lives is moving apace globally. The lifesaving experts replaced by sycophants, the suppression replaced by resurgence.
No wonder he & 45 get along. Birds of a feather.
Trump evil spreads, or is dictatorship what Trump is trying to practice. How do we rid the world of these evil people?
Right-wing populists only magnify the devastating effects of a pandemic with their obsession with the economy over human lives.
Apoio popular da mídia MILITANTE e da esquerda que roubou os cofres públicos do Brasil !!! Falem a verdade !!! Ele já foi tarde !!!
The US is always teetering on the edge of this possibility with the Crazed One-in-Chief.
He's Trump's friend.
We’re almost to this point, fam! 🇺🇸
Bolsonaro is a dictator, this is why Trump likes him. This is what Trump wants to be.
You can bet your life that realdonaldtrump's gonna watch how this plays out. Dr Fauci, check your Twitter feed. The ahole is aiming for you
Popular Support? Are your kidding? He betrayed the President therefore he must be fired. No one likes traitors.
Look out Fauci!!
Remember that documentary about American/English men traveling to Brazil for sex with prostitutes? Guys when this is over, you might want to add a mask, gloves and a ventilator along with your box of condoms.
he fired mandetta bc no one can be more popular than him bolsonaro’s government is a cult of personality and no one can outshine him
I will never understand why so many far rights want many deaths on their hands. They all gotta be demons in human bodies
I still can't believe how dumb Bolsonaro is.. and the fact that his 'my' president makes me embarrassed.
He’s a lame minister...blatant liar...utterly incompetent
BOLSONARO A BUCETAFACE
Brazil is fucked....
America and Brazil going at it to be the dumbest mofos during this
wooooooooooooow
Scientists should be the only people qualified to be president of any nation after this. Bobbleheads in suits are only good as fertilizer and worm food.
He wanted to isolate broads?
How very Trumpian. Blech.
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