Sidney Rezende harshly criticizes Temer: criminal government
"Infant mortality has increased for the first time in 26 years. Brazil is regressing because of a criminal government and an elite incapable of stopping the tragedy because they put their interests above those of the Brazilian people," said journalist Sidney Rezende.
247 Journalist Sidney Rezende used his Twitter account to harshly criticize the Michel Temer government.
"Infant mortality has increased for the first time in 26 years. Brazil is regressing because of a criminal government and an elite incapable of stopping the tragedy because they put their interests above those of the Brazilian people," the journalist wrote on Twitter.
Brazil had been reducing its infant mortality rates with rates better than the world average for the past 26 years, but in 2016 it experienced its first statistical setback: there were 14 infant deaths for every thousand births, an increase of approximately 5% over the previous year.
According to a report from SheetThe Ministry of Health blames the Zika virus and the economic crisis.