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Brazil hands out so much covid cash that poverty nears a low

This has to be the single most unexpected outcome of the corona pandemic. Brazil´s right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro has angered the local and international capitalistas by handing out so much money to the poor that poverty levels are now *lower* than under the previous left-wing administration! Of course, the whole thing smells of vote buying and "Winterhilfe", but it´s nevertheless interesting that Bolsonaro is doing it, while leftists in many nations have sold out to the globo-liberals (read: spending cutbacks). 2020 increases...