• The City of #Araraquara, in the State of #SaoPaulo, is the first #Brazil(ian) city to put a full #lockdown measure in place. It started this Sunday and was to finish yesterday, but it was extended. The mayor is from the far left and even supermarkets and grocery stores, considered essential business according to a national #COVID19 lockdown guidelines, are closed, thus breaking a national policy. #coronavirus
• #Bolsonaro signed a decree that will force gas stations to show in receipts how much in #ICMS (tax over products and services) a customer is paying over the fuel. The decree is to start in 30 days and aims to expose to the population how abusive the local ICMS amount is, since it is calculated based on how much the government charges when the fuel leaves #Petrobras' refineries to gas stations (this tax is charged over any and every transaction, even over the same product, until it reaches the consumer end). The gov't is zeroing the ICMS at the federal level, and this means the amount in the receipt will show the customer precisely how much they are being charged locally. Strangely, the president of #PROCON (a public institution that deals with abuses against the consumer) in #SaoPaulo stated that they won't inspect gas stations that don't inform their ICMS in receipts unless SP's General-Attorney's Office recommends them to. No other PROCON, so far, has expressed resistance to do their natural job.
• The ex-secretary (minister) of #Bolsonaro's #DepartmentofJustice (#MinistryofJustice) and lead judge in the #LavaJato operation #SergioMoro, who has 'antagonizingly' been giving his opinion on almost everything related to politics since he left the government last year—accusing Bolsonaro of interference in the federal police, promising to prove it, and never doing it—strangely hasn't said a word about #DanielSilveira's case, and people are starting to take notice. #carwash #moro
• Several #Brazil(ian) states is putting a curfew in place, and in some places, not even deliveries will be allowed. Restarting in-person classes was also delayed in many places. #SaoPaulo is one of the states adopting the radical measures. The public transport in some of these places will be reduced, increasing agglomeration. The reason behind this measure is, for some, to destabilize the government, and for others it goes beyond, to allow #China and globalism-oriented groups to buy companies in financial difficulty.

The #Bolsonaro administration has been trying to reduce gov't spending by also cutting investment in advertising, and while reviewing the contracts, they found some curious (and outrageous) ones, like this one the state-run oil company #Petrobras had with the #FormulaOne, a contract to pay 150 million reals per year during 5 years.

When Bolsonaro called the president of Petrobras and asked him to rescind this contract, he was informed that it didn't have a condition for the termination of contract on Petrobras' part. Bolsonaro demanded that he found a way out and things eventually worked out and the contract was terminated.

#formula1 #jairbolsonaro

A Brazilian journalist commenting on the accusations that one of #Bolsonaro's sons is involved in corruption:

“This shows that even at corruption standards our #Brazil has gone down the tubes, because, with the previous administrations, during #PT, we would hear the news of some kind of corruption that was glamorous; they were big companies, state-run companies, #Petrobras, big companies with overseas dealings; it was a Hollywoodian corruption. Today, with the lower clergy reaching the power, an ex-congressman from the Congress' lower clergy (Bolsonaro), and councilmen from Rio (his sons), what we have is a different standard of corruption, the most ordinary kind of corruption typical of the lower clergy. So, even when it comes to that, we are worse.”