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Pressure grows on Bolsonaro to ditch top diplomat over Covid-19 failures

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro is facing growing calls to replace his Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo over failures in the country’s Covid-19 response, the latest sign of mounting pressure on the president to improve his handing of the pandemic.

Senate President Rodrigo Pacheco said on Thursday, March 25, that Brazil’s foreign policy must improve, adding that it was up to Bolsonaro to decide if he would replace Araujo. A close ideological ally of the president, Araujo has faced criticism for his barbs against vaccine superpower China and struggles to secure shots from the U . . .

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