Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has said they have to fight COVID-19 and stop acting like a ‘country of fags’. It is the latest outburst from the far-right leader who has seen over 163,000 Brazilians die from coronavirus while consistently downplaying the pandemic.
During a speech about attracting tourism, Bolsonaro used the word ‘maricas’ which can translate as ‘fags’ or ‘sissies’: ‘All anyone talks about these days is the pandemic.
We need to stop that. ‘I regret the deaths. I really do. But we’re all going to die someday. There’s no use fleeing reality.
We have to stop being a country of fags… We have to face up to it and fight. I hate this faggot stuff.’ The country’s coronavirus death toll is the second worst in the world after the