No menu items!

Bolsonaro mocks Brazil Senate’s televised Covid CPI, calling it “fiasco” and “joke”

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday, June 1, said that the televised Covid CPI (Parliamentary Inquiry Committee on Brazil's management of Covid) is "a fiasco" and "a joke."

The president's statements occurred on the day the committee heard oncologist Nise Yamaguchi. The doctor is an advocate of the use of hydroxychloroquine - a drug with no proven efficacy in the treatment of Covid - and is close to the government.

"Why this pressure, this wave of governors who don't want to testify to the CPI? But the CPI is a fiasco, isn't it? Whatever has . . .

To read the full NEWS and much more, Subscribe to our Premium Membership Plan. Already Subscribed?

Check out our other content