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Author(s): Pinheiro de Oliveira, Amanda | Abstract: The Zika virus outbreak erupted in Brazil in ... more Author(s): Pinheiro de Oliveira, Amanda | Abstract: The Zika virus outbreak erupted in Brazil in 2015 and spread to dozens of countries in just a few months. There is no vaccine, treatment or cure for this virus that is now a sexually transmitted disease and causes microcephaly in babies. While scientists work to develop the vaccine, 500,000 tourists get ready to travel to Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympic Games. Brazil has struggled to eliminate Aedes Aegypti, the mosquito vector of Zika and several others viruses, for the last 30 years. As the outbreak erupted on the eve of the Olympics, it globally exposed Brazil’s deficient healthcare and sanitation systems and lasting poverty and inequality gaps. It also happened in the wake of a severe political and economic crisis, which determined the state’s response to fight the virus. This paper examines the role of military forces as Brazil’s response to contain the Zika virus through three perspectives: 1) Brazil’s ambition to strengt...
Kalfou, Volume 8, Issues 1 and 2, 2021
The colonized sector, or at least the 'native' quarters, the shanty town, the medina, the reserva... more The colonized sector, or at least the 'native' quarters, the shanty town, the medina, the reservation, is a disreputable place inhabited by disreputable people. You are born anywhere, anyhow. You die anywhere from anything."-FRAN Tz FAN oN , The Wretched of the Earth S ince the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global health emergency in January 2020, the coronavirus has impacted people across the globe, at once decimating both lives and livelihoods. In addition, it has increased the number of forcibly displaced and stateless people: in 2020, this demographic surpassed 80 million persons. 1 Certainly, the pandemic-its socioeconomic impact along with its resultant amplification of policies of confinement and segregation-has had a much greater effect on communities of color across vulnerable groups, in both the Global South and North. 2 This article reflects on the experiences of the marginalized in Brazil and Kenya, in particular those who are living in historically poor and intentionally neglected urban spaces, migrants, deportees, and the internally displaced. In the first months of 2020, as COVID-19 crossed international borders, transcended class divides, and became a pandemic, its lethal capacity was touted as the equalizer of social and racial inequalities. It is not. In Brazil, aggressive transmission has killed, principally, poor Black and Brown people long imperiled by systemic social and racial inequities. In Kenya, as in Brazil, the virus has made violently clear domestic socioeconomic asymmetries, and the global disparities in access to the vaccine have demonstrated the ongoing colonial relations between countries in the "North" and "South." 3
The Zika virus outbreak erupted in Brazil in 2015 and spread to dozens of countries in just a few... more The Zika virus outbreak erupted in Brazil in 2015 and spread to dozens of countries in just a few months. There is no vaccine, treatment or cure for this virus that is now a sexually transmitted disease and causes microcephaly in babies. While scientists work to develop the vaccine, 500,000 tourists get ready to travel to Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympic Games. Brazil has struggled to eliminate Aedes Aegypti, the mosquito vector of Zika and several others viruses, for the last 30 years. As the outbreak erupted on the eve of the Olympics, it globally exposed Brazil's deficient healthcare and sanitation systems and lasting poverty and inequality gaps. It also happened in the wake of a severe political and economic crisis, which determined the state's response to fight the virus. This paper examines the role of military forces as Brazil's response to contain the Zika virus through three perspectives: 1) Brazil's ambition to strengthen its role as a humanitarian superpower; 2) Brazil's shift from a socially conscious approach to a global health issue (the case of HIV) to a forceful response (Zika); and 3) Brazil's attempt to recover leadership, both internally and globally, threatened by the current crisis.
Author(s): Pinheiro de Oliveira, Amanda | Abstract: The Zika virus outbreak erupted in Brazil in ... more Author(s): Pinheiro de Oliveira, Amanda | Abstract: The Zika virus outbreak erupted in Brazil in 2015 and spread to dozens of countries in just a few months. There is no vaccine, treatment or cure for this virus that is now a sexually transmitted disease and causes microcephaly in babies. While scientists work to develop the vaccine, 500,000 tourists get ready to travel to Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympic Games. Brazil has struggled to eliminate Aedes Aegypti, the mosquito vector of Zika and several others viruses, for the last 30 years. As the outbreak erupted on the eve of the Olympics, it globally exposed Brazil’s deficient healthcare and sanitation systems and lasting poverty and inequality gaps. It also happened in the wake of a severe political and economic crisis, which determined the state’s response to fight the virus. This paper examines the role of military forces as Brazil’s response to contain the Zika virus through three perspectives: 1) Brazil’s ambition to strengt...
Kalfou, Volume 8, Issues 1 and 2, 2021
The colonized sector, or at least the 'native' quarters, the shanty town, the medina, the reserva... more The colonized sector, or at least the 'native' quarters, the shanty town, the medina, the reservation, is a disreputable place inhabited by disreputable people. You are born anywhere, anyhow. You die anywhere from anything."-FRAN Tz FAN oN , The Wretched of the Earth S ince the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global health emergency in January 2020, the coronavirus has impacted people across the globe, at once decimating both lives and livelihoods. In addition, it has increased the number of forcibly displaced and stateless people: in 2020, this demographic surpassed 80 million persons. 1 Certainly, the pandemic-its socioeconomic impact along with its resultant amplification of policies of confinement and segregation-has had a much greater effect on communities of color across vulnerable groups, in both the Global South and North. 2 This article reflects on the experiences of the marginalized in Brazil and Kenya, in particular those who are living in historically poor and intentionally neglected urban spaces, migrants, deportees, and the internally displaced. In the first months of 2020, as COVID-19 crossed international borders, transcended class divides, and became a pandemic, its lethal capacity was touted as the equalizer of social and racial inequalities. It is not. In Brazil, aggressive transmission has killed, principally, poor Black and Brown people long imperiled by systemic social and racial inequities. In Kenya, as in Brazil, the virus has made violently clear domestic socioeconomic asymmetries, and the global disparities in access to the vaccine have demonstrated the ongoing colonial relations between countries in the "North" and "South." 3
The Zika virus outbreak erupted in Brazil in 2015 and spread to dozens of countries in just a few... more The Zika virus outbreak erupted in Brazil in 2015 and spread to dozens of countries in just a few months. There is no vaccine, treatment or cure for this virus that is now a sexually transmitted disease and causes microcephaly in babies. While scientists work to develop the vaccine, 500,000 tourists get ready to travel to Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympic Games. Brazil has struggled to eliminate Aedes Aegypti, the mosquito vector of Zika and several others viruses, for the last 30 years. As the outbreak erupted on the eve of the Olympics, it globally exposed Brazil's deficient healthcare and sanitation systems and lasting poverty and inequality gaps. It also happened in the wake of a severe political and economic crisis, which determined the state's response to fight the virus. This paper examines the role of military forces as Brazil's response to contain the Zika virus through three perspectives: 1) Brazil's ambition to strengthen its role as a humanitarian superpower; 2) Brazil's shift from a socially conscious approach to a global health issue (the case of HIV) to a forceful response (Zika); and 3) Brazil's attempt to recover leadership, both internally and globally, threatened by the current crisis.