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Bolsonaro falters as his COVID disaster becomes impossible to ignore

Losing allies at home and abroad, could this be the beginning of the end for Brazil’s authoritarian president?

President Jair Bolsonaro has repeatedly implied that COVID-19 is a media hoax.
President Jair Bolsonaro has repeatedly implied that COVID-19 is a media hoax.
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Jair Bolsonaro is running out of options.

The increasingly isolated Brazilian president faces a destablising political crisis that appears to have alienated his supporters, as well as a pandemic that has mercilessly ravaged the country. 

Facing a call for impeachment after opponents criticised what they believe was an illegal attempt to co-opt the country’s armed forces and a rising COVID death toll that shows no sign of abating, critics are beginning to round on Bolsonaro.