November 2023
Burial of those killed by the pandemic in a cemetery in Manaus/EBC. The health crisis in the Northern State of Amazonas epitomized the misconduct of the pandemic by Bolsonaro’s government. Manaus, the capital of the state, suffered one of the world’s most devastating outbreaks, with the collapse of hospitals, lack of oxygen, and burials of bodies in mass graves.
This interview with Deisy Ventura, professor at the Faculty of Public Health of the Universidade de São Paulo, published in HCS-Manguinho’s supplement about COVID-19 in Latin America (vol.30, supp.1), discusses the political dimension of the pandemic in Brazil.
Deisy de Freitas de Lima Ventura became a fundamental reference on the covid-19 pandemic in Brazil due to her extensive knowledge of international law, with a focus on health. She used evidence to demonstrate the government’s systematic policy to spread the coronavirus in the country.
In this interview to Carlos Henrique Assunção Paiva (COC/Fiocruz), Claudia Agostoni (Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas – UNAM), Vivian Mannheimer (Ph.D./ PPGCOM PUC-Rio) and Marcos Cueto (COC /Fiocruz), Deisy Ventura offers some reflections on global health and discusses the handling of the pandemic in Brazil and its human rights implications. According to Ventura, the Brazilian government had a systematic policy for spreading the virus, and the pandemic should be treated as a matter of memory, truth, and justice.
Ventura, D., Paiva, C. H. A., Agostoni, C., Mannheimer, V., & Cueto, M.. (2023). Covid-19 como tema de memória, verdade e justiça: entrevista com Deisy Ventura. História, Ciências, Saúde-manguinhos, 30, e2023053.
