Tens of thousands of protesters have poured on to the streets of Brazil’s largest cities to demand the impeachment of President Jair Bolsonaro over his catastrophic response to a coronavirus pandemic that has claimed nearly half a million Brazilian lives. Osvaldo Bazani da Silva, a 48-year-old hairdresser who lost his younger brother to Covid-19, said: “We can’t lose any more Brazilian lives. We need to hit the streets every single day until this government falls.”Demonstrators kick a head prop depicting Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, during a protest in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday. The civil rights activist Silva de Mendonça Photograph: Handout“I want justice,” the teenager added, shedding tears as he spoke. Polls suggest growing anger at the rightwing populist’s handling of Covid, with 57% of the population now backing his impeachment.

Source: The Guardian May 29, 2021 18:00 UTC