Adrift, the Bolsonaro government is making a mess of things, writes Eliane Cantanhêde.

247 - The journalist Eliane Cantanhêde He states, in his column in the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo this Tuesday (9), that “Jair Bolsonaro continues to be out of orbit, on another planet, Moro fell, Mandetta was fired, Nelson Teich gave up, Paulo Guedes disappeared, the Ministry of Health ended and the Ministry of Economy submerged, while other ministries are doing whatever they want, aimlessly, under the president’s applause”. “A melancholy, or desperate situation”, he assesses.

“Not even the disclosure of the April 22nd meeting, a summary of the government's actions, which generated or fueled investigations in the Supreme Court, deterred Bolsonaro. According to Estadão, he personally ordered the Ministry of Health to report “fewer than a thousand deaths per day” and “to end the story on Jornal Nacional.” So, an extraordinary shift has begun in this saga, Congress is creating its own central reporting system, and Estadão, G1, O Globo, UOL, Folha, and Extra have partnered to provide the information that the government is withholding or manipulating.” 

'It is sad, and worrying, the dismantling of the Ministry of Health – a den of leftists, according to Damares. And it is equally sad, and worrying, that generals and colonels are willing to take on the dirty game, without ever having seen an epidemiological curve, but ready for the "mission,"' she emphasizes. 

"Definitely, the biggest problem in Brazil is not the new protests, it's the glaring lack of governance, which shocks the country and the world," says Cantanhêde. 

“The various manifestos, the pro-democracy acts, and the national unity proposed by Fernando Henrique, Marina Silva, and Ciro Gomes are not attacks, they are defensive movements. Precisely to “clip the wings” of the “hate cabinet” in the Presidential Palace and the coup plotters encouraged by the President of the Republic and social media, with the blessing of the Armed Forces,” he concludes.