Hemorrhaging support due to Brazil’s coronavirus catastrophe and pressured into a change of course by allies in Congress, far-right President Jair Bolsonaro is scrambling to protect his position and avoid parliamentary investigations into his government’s pandemic response. Opposition senators have banded together to request the opening of a Parliamentary Hearings Committee (CPI) to investigate the Bolsonaro administration’s handling of the Covid-19 crisis.
They have enough support to push the CPI forward, but Senate President Rodrigo Pacheco — elected with Mr. Bolsonaro’s support — has so far blocked the investigation.
Mr. Pacheco’s task is becoming harder...
