Unlike Bolsonaro, the presidents of Argentina and Uruguay are using science to control the pandemic.
“By different paths, and based on scientific recommendations, the presidents of Uruguay and Argentina, partners of Brazil in Mercosur, are managing to get through the pandemic with some political success,” highlights the newspaper O Globo, owned by the Marinho family, in its editorial this Monday (18)
247 - Editorial from the newspaper The Globe This Monday (18) highlights that, unlike Jair Bolsonaro, the presidents of Argentina and Uruguay, Alberto Fernández and Luis Lacalle Pou, respectively, base themselves on science to contain the advance of the new coronavirus pandemic, which allows them to be successful in controlling the pandemic.
"There is strong pressure against the quarantine, but he resists: 'Going out without criteria, now, would lead to the death of thousands of Argentinians,' he repeats. Opinion polls indicate that Fernández was right to base his decisions on the pandemic on science, however drastic they may be for the economic and social lives of 44 million: his government's approval ratings are now nearing 80%," highlights the Marinho family's newspaper about the Argentinian president.
"On the other side of the River Plate basin, in Uruguay, President Luis Lacalle Pou is experiencing a political situation similar to that of Fernández. The spread of the virus among Uruguayans is occurring more slowly than among Argentinians—and, in both cases, far below the contagion curve in Brazil," the text notes.
"Through different paths, and based on scientific recommendations, the presidents of Uruguay and Argentina, Brazil's partners in Mercosur, are managing to navigate the pandemic with some political success," the editorial points out.