Today, a Supreme Court decision puts Bolsonaro’s back against the wall. São Paulo’s Germany office. And Brazil’s “vaccine capital.”
Institutional crisis in 3…2…1…
With over 15,000 coronavirus-related deaths confirmed since Monday, Supreme Court Justice Luís Roberto Barroso ordered Senate President Rodrigo Pacheco to launch a congressional hearings committee (CPI) to investigate the government’s pandemic response.
Context. Back in February, opposition senators gathered enough signatures to open a CPI, but the process can only move forward once Mr. Pacheco submits this request to the Senate floor — which he is not obligated to do. As we explained earlier this week,
