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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro speaks during the inauguration ceremony of the newly appointed justice minister, at the Planalto presidential palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, April 29, 2020. (AP Photo / Eraldo Peres)

Trump defends Bolsonaro amid COVID-19 turmoil

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Cemetery workers wearing hazmat suits complete the burial of Ana Maria, a 56-year-old nursing assistant who died from the new coronavirus, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, April 28, 2020. Ana Maria's daughter Taina dos Santos said that the situation in the Salgado Filho public hospital where her mother worked is complicated and that some health workers have to buy their own protective gear. &quot;She gave everything to her job until the very end,&quot; said the 27-year-old daughter. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

As virus cases surge, Brazil starts to worry its neighbors

By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

People out of work wait outside a government-run bank having technical problems to distribute their aid money amid the new coronavirus pandemic's affect on the economy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, April 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Brazil leaves its many poor hanging amid coronavirus surge

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DIARLEI RODRIGUES - Associated Press

Taina dos Santos (third from left) attends the burial of her mother Ana Maria, who died from the coronavirus, in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday. Experts fear Brazil may be the next global hot spot for the coronavirus with death totals reaching 4,600. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Jair Bolsonaro hit by health, political crises in Brazil

By Madison Hirneisen - The Washington Times

A man wearing a mask sits next the coffin of his mother as he's transported by a cemetery worker in a full protection suit to her burial site at the Nossa Senhora das Gracas cemetery in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, April 27, 2020. The woman's body was previously being held in a refrigerator for confirmed and suspected victims of of COVID-19, according to the administration of the cemetery. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Bolsonaro’s latest crisis threatens Brazil’s virus response

By DAVID BILLER and MARCELO DE SOUSA - Associated Press

A health worker holds a photo of a person he said was his colleague who died of COVID-19, at a protest outside &quot;Pronto Socorro 28 de Agosto&quot; Hospital in Manaus, Brazil, Monday, April 27, 2020. Cases of the new coronavirus are overwhelming hospitals, morgues and cemeteries across Brazil as Latin America's largest nation veers closer to becoming one of the world's pandemic hot spots. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

At a glance: Brazil buckles under spread of new coronavirus

Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to supporters during a protest in front the army's headquarters during the Army day, amid the new coronavirus pandemic, in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, April 19, 2020. Bolsonaro came out in support of a small protest Sunday that defended military intervention, infringing his own ministry's recommendations to maintain social distancing and prompting fierce critics. (AP Photo/Andre Borges)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro seeks end to social isolation measures

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Brazil's outgoing Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta, behind, smiles behind his replacement Nelson Teich at a swearing-in ceremony in Planalto Palace, Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, April 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Andre Borges)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro takes risk with new minister for pandemic

By DAVID BILLER and MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, March 8, 2020 file photo, Chelsea's Willian celebrates after scoring a goal during their English Premier League soccer match against Everton at Stamford Bridge stadium in London. Willian is relishing the Premier League resuming, with some reservations during the coronavirus pandemic. “If we restart playing without fans but there’s contact on the pitch and maybe we can spread the virus between us,” Willian said in a video interview Friday, April 17, 2020. “It’s not a bad idea but they have to know very carefully what’s going to happen.&quot; (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, file)

Chelsea’s Willian cautious about resuming even without fans

Associated Press

MTSU works with indigenous filmmakers on Amazon project

Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 14, 2018, file photo, Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, right, listens to Sao Paulo's Governor-elect Joao Doria, during a meeting in Brasilia, Brazil. As governor, Doria has become one of the nation’s foremost advocates of strong restrictions on daily life to contain the virus, such as closing schools and restricting commerce and public transportation. That’s put him squarely in Bolsonaro’s line of fire. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

AP Interview: Governor says Brazil has ‘Bolsonaro-virus’

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

In this Monday, Dec. 10, 2018 file photo, President-elect Jair Bolsonaro cries during the playing of the national anthem at a ceremony officially confirming his election at the Supreme Electoral Court in Brasilia, Brazil. On Friday, March 27, 2020, The Associated Press reported on a photo circulating online incorrectly captioned as Italy’s president with tears streaming down his face while saying the country has run out of space to bury the dead who have succumbed to coronavirus. The mis-captioned photo shows Bolsonaro crying during a Dec. 17, 2019, appearance while discussing the stabbing attack he was a victim of during his 2018 presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil president, fires health minister in coronavirus dispute

By David Biller - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, April 9, 2020 file photo, a chemist displays hydroxychloroquine tablets in New Delhi, India. Scientists in Brazil have stopped part of a study of the malaria drug touted as a possible coronavirus treatment after heart rhythm problems developed in one-quarter of people given the higher of two doses being tested. Chloroquine and a similar drug, hydroxychloroquine, have been pushed by President Donald Trump after some early tests suggested the drugs might curb coronavirus entering cells. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Heart woes spur partial stop of malaria drug study for virus

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE - Associated Press

Brazil teen’s death raises virus alert for indigenous groups

By DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks from his home in Sao Paulo during an interview with The Associated Press via a cloud-based video conferencing service, as seen from a laptop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, April 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

AP Interview: ‘Lula’ says Bolsonaro a disaster amid pandemic

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

Firefighter Elielson Silva plays his trumpet on the top of a ladder for residents cooped up at home, during a lockdown to help contain the spread of the new coronavirus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, April 5, 2020. As he played in several Rio neighborhoods on Sunday, his final numbers were Brazil’s national anthem, then “Hallelujah.” (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Rio firefighter trades hose for horn to extinguish the blues

By YESICA FISCH and DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

Medical workers wearing protective gear peer into a car checking if commuters have COVID-19 symptoms, in Guarulhos on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, March 30, 2020. President Jair Bolsonaro has stuck with his contention that concern about the new coronavirus is overblown, and accused Brazilian media of trying to stoke nationwide hysteria. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Jair Bolsonaro, ‘coronavirus denier,’ echoes Trump response for Brazil

By Frederic Puglie - Special to The Washington Times

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro greets supporters and journalists as he arrives to give a news conference on the new coronavirus at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, March 27, 2020. Even as coronavirus cases mount in Latin America’s largest nation, Bolsonaro is calling the pandemic a momentary, minor problem and saying strong measures to contain it are unnecessary. (AP Photo/Andre Borges)

Facebook joins resistance to Bolsonaro virus claims

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

Pastor Silas Malafaia delivers a sermon during a service transmitted on live through social networks, at the empty Assembly of God Victory in Christ Church in reason to the restrictions for agglomerations due the new coronavirus, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, March 29, 2020. Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, a conservative Catholic who married an evangelical in a service Malafaia administered, has zeroed in on the need to reopen the churches. “God is Brazilian,” he told people on Sunday, local paper O Globo reported. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Correction: Brazilian churches bristle at virus quarantines

By DIANE JEANTET - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to journalists about the new coronavirus at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, March 27, 2020. Even as coronavirus cases mount in Latin America’s largest nation, Bolsonaro is calling the pandemic a momentary, minor problem and saying strong measures to contain it are unnecessary. (AP Photo/Andre Borges)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro makes life-or-death coronavirus gamble

By DAVID BILLER - Associated Press