Brazil’s Deadly Calm

Despite mishandling a pandemic that has claimed over 160,000 lives, Brazil’s president is enjoying a surge in popularity thanks to emergency cash transfers and...

But his fortunes may turn, and the threat he poses to Brazilian democracy rise again.

One of the world’s worst outbreaks of COVID-19 has ravaged Brazil, one of Latin America’s most viciously polarised countries.

The mishandling of the pandemic has been so severe that in mid-2020 it looked likely to result in major political tumult or social unrest.

At that point, two health ministers and one justice minister had…