President @jairbolsonaro, why did your wife Michelle receive R$89 thousand from Fabrício Queiroz?

The President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, when asked today by a reporter for the newspaper O Globo, why the first lady, Michelle Bolsonaro, received R $ 89,000 from Fabrício Queiroz, a former police officer who worked as an advisor to Jair Bolsonaro and his son Flávio Bolsonaro, the president said: "I'd like to give you a good battering".

The Brazilian president, when asked about his wife's alleged involvement in wide-ranging corruption scheme, again showed his complete lack of control in dealing with the press and democracy. Thus, Bolsonaro continues to owe Brazilian society the answer to the simple question: "Why did your wife receive 89 thousand reais from Fabrício Queiroz?

After this threat, Brazilian social networks were taken by the question asked by the journalist from O Globo. Thousands of people are asking the exact same question: President @jairbolsonaro, why did your wife Michelle receive R$89 thousand from Fabrício Queiroz?

A sales representative died while working at a Carrefour supermarket in the city of Recife, Brazil. The body was covered with umbrellas, surrounded by crates of beer and the supermarket continued to function for the public

 A man who works as a sales representative for a supplier at the Carrefour supermarket had a heart attack inside the supermarket while working in the unit of the Carrefour supermarket chain in Torre, a Recife district, in Pernambuco. The supermarket, which continued to operate with the body hidden by umbrellas and crates of beer, was the target of much criticism on social networks in Brazil.

According to the Hypeness website, the body of Moses stayed at the site between 8 am and 12 pm, until it was removed by the Legal Medical Institute (IML).

In an official note posted on Twitter, the supermarket chain Carrefour apologized for what happened.

IBGE: In 3 months, the number of unemployed in Brazil grows 3 million

According to data from Pnad Covid, released by the IBGE, between the first week of May and the last week of July, more than three million Brazilians were unemployed, that is, they sought employment and did not find it - thus, the unemployment rate went up from 10.5% to 13.7% in the period.

Therefore, it is possible to say that during the coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19), at least 3 million people lost their jobs in Brazil.

The numbers are scary, just in the last week of July of 2020, the unemployment rate in Brazil jumped from 13.1% to 13.7%, a growth of 0.6% in just seven days, according to data from the Covid Household Sample Survey (Pnad Covid-19 ), released by IBGE. The unemployed population in Brazil was estimated at 12.9 million people in the fourth week of July.

Meanwhile, the drastic fiscal austerity policy advocated by Economy Minister Paulo Guedes is losing ground within the government of Jair Bolsonaro, who has seen his popularity soar due to the 600 reais (little git more than US$100) emergency aid given to the poorest population. It is important to note that Bolsonaro was initially against the aid of 600 reais, which was only approved due to the efforts of federal deputies, mainly from the left parties. Paradoxically, the policy that Bolsonaro opposed ended up benefiting some of the voters, who linked aid to the federal government.

Burnings and the destructions of the environment in the Pantanal reach the worst rate in the last 20 years, according to Inpe

The National Institute for Space Research (Inpe), when comparing its historical series, found that between January and July 2020, the Pantanal was destroyed by more than 4,200 fires. In total, more than 840 thousand hectares are consumed by fire, which is equivalent to about 1.1 million soccer fields.

The situation is so worrying that even figures like the actor Leonardo DiCaprio continue to speak out against burning in the Amazon and criticize the current Brazilian government. Today, the actor shared a text from The Guardian newspaper on his Instagram, which cites the management of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party) in a critical tone.

Brazilian Central Bank projects a drop of more than 10% in the country's GDP in the second half of 2020

During a virtual event promoted by Abrainc (Brazilian Association of Real Estate Developers), the president of the Central Bank of Brazil, Roberto Campos Neto, said that the institution believes that there will be a fall of almost 11% of GDP in the second half of 2020. If the forecast is confirmed, the country will enter a technical recession, which is the drop in GDP for two consecutive semesters. Economists point out that the economic crisis in Brazil is more intense than in other countries and estimate that the recovery will be slow.

The June summary was: industry and commerce showed better results than expected, agribusiness was strong, but the services sector showed a slow recovery.

The fall in the level of Brazilian economic activity comes amid the pandemic of the new coronavirus, which has been killing about 1000 people in Brazil every day for several weeks. The pandemic has brought down the world economy and put the world on the road to a recession.

So far, Bolsonaro's government, in addition to the president's denialism, which in the face of thousands of deaths continues to defend things like the use of hydroxocloquine and openly criticizing the mayors and governors who defended social isolation, has done little to face this tragedy that will reverberate in the greatest recession in our history, as everything indicates that Brazil will face an economic fall twice the world average.

Brazilian services sector closed the second quarter of 2020 with a fall of 15.4%, according to IBGE

 The services sector, the most important in the Brazilian economy, ended the second quarter of 2020 with a decrease of 15.4%, according to the Brazilian Institute of Statistical Geography (IBGE).

The sector was hit hard by the pandemic of the new coronavirus, since some of its main activities had to close its doors due to social isolation measures, such as bars and restaurants, gyms and beauty salons.

In June, the services sector recovered. The sector grew 5% in June, influenced by the easing of social isolation, but even so, the accumulated result is still at a level 24% below the peak of the historical series, recorded in November 2014.

First lady Michelle Bolsonaro's grandmother dies of Covid-19; Brazilian Ministry of Economy suffers from stampede of team members; and São Paulo Governor João Doria announces that he is with Covid-19

First lady Michelle Bolsonaro's grandmother, Maria Aparecida Firmo Ferreira, who was 80, died of complications from Covid-19 in the Federal District, Brazil. Michelle who has also been diagnosed Covid-19 has yet to comment on her grandmother's death.

The minister of Economy of Brazi, Paulo Guedes, said yesterday (11/08) that there is a "stampede" of his team members. The reason is that government wings that defend more public investments, such as the Minister of Regional Development, Rogério Marinho, and President Jair Bolsonaro himself, who was never a neoliberal but a defender of the privileges of the military in Brazil, are abandoning the neoliberal agenda defended by Guedes and his followers.

For this reason, there is great speculation that Guedes may leave the government, despite of him saying that he will not leave.

João Doria, the governor of São Paulo, the state with the largest economy in Brazil, said today that he tested positive for Covid-19, that he has no symptoms and will work from home. At 62, he is the 11th Brazilian governor to test positive for the disease.

Jornal Nacional, most-watched broadcast news program in Brazil, points possible reasons for Bolsonaro's impeachment

The Jornal Nacional, in its edition today, cited article 196 of the Brazilian Constitution, which recognizes the right of all citizens to health. The television program also cited Article 6 of the Brazilian Constitution, which states that health is a social right.

In addition, it was explained by the Jornal Nacional tv anchors that it is a crime of responsibility to violate social law according to Law 1,079 / 1950, in Articles 7 and 9.

Today, according to Al Jazeera website, "Brazil's coronavirus deaths have surpassed 100,000 deaths five months after the first reported case in a sign that the country has not contained the deadly disease".

Paulo Guedes, Minister of Economy of Brazil, affirms in an event of the Aspen Security Forum that the Americans killed Indians and deforested forests and now want to spare Brazilians from destroying the Amazon rainforest

The Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes, today, at the Aspen Security Forum event, organized by the Aspen Institute, a study center in Washington, USA, said:

"We understand your concern (North Americans), because you have cleared your forests. You want to save us from clearing the forest, as you cleared yours. We know that you had civil wars, you also had slavery and we just ask you to be kind. how kind we are. You killed your Indians, you didn't mix. "

The phrase was received with great concern by foreign investors, as it points to a position of the Brazilian government that is not concerned with protecting the forest. On the contrary, it seems to understand that cutting down the forest is part of the country's development process.

Unemployment in Brazil exceeds 13% after about 9 million workers had been laid off during the COVID-19 pandemic

The unemployment rate in Brazil rose to 13.3%, an increase of 1.1 percentage point (p.p.) compared to the quarter ended in March 2020. As a result, the number of unemployed workers was 12.8 million. The data are from the National Continuous Household Sample Survey (Continuous Pnad), carried out by IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics).

The number of discouraged reached 5.7 million people, the largest contingent in the historical series. They are people with the potential to work, but who simply gave up looking for a formal job. The majority of them are working in informal jobs or are unoccupied.

According to the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, "commerce was the sector most affected, with the closing of 2.1 million jobs. In civil construction, there were 1.1 million fewer. Among domestic workers, there were 1 , 3 million layoffs".

Four out of ten Brazilian municipalities have no sewage service, according to IBGE

About 39.7% of Brazilian municipalities do not have sewage service, according to the National Survey of Basic Sanitation (PNSB), released by IBGE.

Despite the growth in the supply of these sewage services, which practically doubled in the last thirty years in the Northeast region of Brazil, from 26.1% in 1989 to 52.7% and from 12.9% to 43% of municipalities in the Midwest region, the provision of basic sanitation services in Brazil is still far from an acceptable level.

According to the Trata Brasil Institute, a survey based on data released by the National Sanitation Information System (SNIS - base 2018), shows that advances in this area are insufficient for Brazil to fulfill national and international commitments in treated water, collection, and treatment of water sewers.