Brazil suffers from poverty as COVID-19 pandemic aid dries up

Brazil suffers from poverty as COVID-19 pandemic aid dries up

Residents of the Paraisopolis favela protest to demand that the Government of Jair Bolsonario not stop state aid amid the crisis derived from the COVID-19 pandemic, with banners that read ‘#EmptyPots’, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, March, 26, 2021. (EPA Photo)

Tatiana Araujo de Sirqueira, a 33-year-old single mother of six, and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro are almost neighbors. But they inhabit different universes.

Sirqueira lives by a landfill less than a mile from the Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, along with 36 other families, and scrapes together cash by recycling trash.She is one of Brazil’s 40 million or so "invisibles," […]

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