"We have failed as a country," says Vera Magalhães.

247 - Journalist Vera Magalhães, columnist for Estado de S. Paulo and anchor of Roda Viva, who supported the 2016 coup against former president Dilma Rousseff, now sees a defeated and failed Brazil. "We lost. Brazil will not recover from the crushing defeat in this pandemic. We are resolutely heading towards breaking the barrier of 50 deaths and 1 million infected, left to their own devices: without a Minister of Health, without social isolation anywhere, without strategy, without governments. And with a president who commits crimes daily and is not prevented from doing so, either because those around him, his ministers and his vice-president, are accomplices, or because those who try have at their disposal legal and institutional instruments that are not capable of dealing with the authoritarian and genocidal fury that Jair Bolsonaro no longer bothers to hide," she writes. your column.

"Reopening the economy in a haphazard way, as they are doing from North to South, is as criminal as Bolsonaro's daily horror show. The crowded streets, the lines at shopping malls, the parties will take their toll in deaths and collapsed hospitals. And it won't be possible to place all the blame on Bolsonaro. We have failed as a country," Vera Magalhães also points out.