Foreign coverage gets tired of Bolsonaro, 'worse than Trump'

Jair Bolsonaro's new pronouncement echoes less abroad than the alarm appears on social media. The tone of the agencies was restrained, avoiding editorializing and even trying to ponder what they said. They are reflected in the vehicles, without their own coverage.

In the US, the New York Times and others have restricted themselves to the American Associated Press , "Bolsonaro says again that the concern with the Coronavirus is exaggerated", or to the Anglo-Canadian Reuters , "In the battle for the coronavirus, Bolsonaro wants to prioritize jobs".

In Europe, Le Monde and others followed France Presse , "Bolsonaro rejects confinement that threatens to ruin the country". Financiers like the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times didn't even notice. The English Guardian is increasingly isolated.

In Argentina, Clarín and others follow their neighbor closely, but still without the prominence of before, underlining only that Bolsonaro caused a "new pot".

With scarce coverage, reactions to the new pronouncement, such as the presenter of the Argentine Revolución Popular Noticias, who had called Bolsonaro an "imbecile" , return to life on Brazilian social media .

Among the most substantive exceptions are analyzes that align him to Trump, as in this Wednesday's newsletters produced by the Washington Post and, shortly, the Economist . But the parallel also begins to blur, now that Trump, it seems, has given up on the "Chinese virus".

And Bolsonaro differentiates himself from him for his repetitive and rash speech, more for the American broadcaster Rush Limbaugh, as pointed out by Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia University in New York - who considers the Brazilian " worse than Trump ".

PS 4 pm - NYT finally came up with its own text, "While Latin America turns off to fight viruses, Brazil and Mexico resist", without quoting Bolsonaro until the second paragraph and forcing a parallel with the Mexican leader - even though he admits the newspaper , "to a lesser extent"

LAW OF THE JUNGLE

The greatest attention, even in the tabloids, is given to the growing loss of power of the Brazilian government, not so much for the governors, at least so far, and more for organized crime.

It goes for both the NY Post and Beijing's Global Times or Baidu's Baijiabao news platform , the Chinese search giant, with titles like "Law of the Jungle."

Posters with the "curfew" in the favelas, by Comando Vermelho and Bonde dos Malucos , are spread out.