Squabbles and accusations: Inside Brazil’s COVID Senate inquiry
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Investigation into government’s handling of coronavirus pandemic adds to pressure on far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.
Sao Paulo, Brazil – In the latest session of Brazil’s COVID-19 Senate inquiry, set up to investigate the government’s handling of the pandemic, former Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello mistook one senator’s surname for a military rank. “I am not a military man; Coronel is a surname,” Senator Angelo Coronel – whose last name means “colonel” in Brazilian Portuguese – told the former minister. The gaffe drew chuckles from senators, spectators and even Pazuello, an army general, whose 10-month stint as health minister ended in March and saw the bulk of Brazil’s nearly 450,000 coronavirus-related deaths.More Related News