Brazil: from the LIS we join the Solidarity Campaign with the people of Amazonas #SOSAmazonas
BySocialist alternative – LIS, Brazil.
From the International Socialist League we want to send our solidarity with the comrades who in the state of Amazonas have been defending life against governments that choose to take care of profits. We join the Urgent Campaign for Amazonas and shout with you: SOS Amazon!
As the world sees contagion levels decline, Brazil reaches record numbers of deaths and infections. A daily average of 1423 deaths in the last week, with insufficient vaccines, overcrowded hospitals, Exhausted health workers and a growing social crisis are postcards of a country suffering. Bolsonaro and the health minister, Pazuello, They do nothing more than ignore health recommendations and continue on the train of infamous denialism in order to guarantee profits for a few.
In the state of Amazonas and its capital Manaus, federal policies hit harder because they are combined with the critical social and economic situation of a state historically devastated by agribusiness, extractivism and an industrial pole that generates precarious work with low salaries. Added to this, The health system is in terrible condition, being able to respond precariously to the demand for health care, of a large state and that only in Manaus, It has Intensive Care Unit beds. If in a normal state the situation is critical, In the middle of a pandemic everything is enhanced.
The governor of Amazonas, Wilson Lima (Social Christian Party –PSC) has been doing everything opposite to the recommendations and alerts that different health professionals, health organizations, social, unions and policies have been doing. As the companions of Amazonas say, consciously decidedcount deaths than save lives. That is why the situation is desperate to the point of lack of oxygen for the hospitals because they did not correctly manage the order., or the lack of painkillers to avoid the suffering of those who have to be intubated.
We join the SOS Amazonas cry and demand that a state of emergency be declared, with all the funds necessary to respond to this critical situation, in defense of a true Single and Universal Health System with sufficient financing to provide quality health care for the people, for the release of vaccine patents and guaranteeing state production covering the entire population, for a basic emergency income for the entire working class who have precarious or informal jobs. And for all this, We are part of those who say Out with Bolsonaro and Mourão, governing workers, the workers and the poor people!
To join the campaign, send us your photo with the #SOSAmazonas sign to the Facebook and Instagram accounts: @alternativasocialistapsol , and share them on your networks to expand the campaign.
We reproduce the call for the campaign:
Urgent campaign for Amazonas:
SOS-Amazon!
Companions, in the face of the deepening of the health and social crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, We launch a call to develop a solidarity campaign with the people of Amazonas and raise our voices so that the federal governments, state and municipal take urgent measures to confront the pandemic and protect LIVES.
Our brothers and sisters are at the epicenter of this pandemic and suffering the worst crisis of this rotten system that chooses profits over lives. Today all of Brazil suffers the sad mark of 250 thousand dead due to direct and indirect responsibility of the Bolsonaro government and his group of military servants to capital like the (of the)Minister of Health Pazuello who consciously chose to COUNT DEADS INSTEAD OF SAVE LIVES. But in the Amazon the situation is terribly more serious and is spreading to the rest of the country.
Lack of beds, medicines, oxygen and now they tie people to beds so they don't move due to lack of sedatives. It happens that when performing the procedure and even while the person is intubated, it is necessary to be sedated, because everything is very uncomfortable and painful.
Governor Wilson Lima is directly and indirectly responsible for the dramatic situation, since it rejected each and every one of the recommendations that experts on the subject had been insistently warning. This is how he proceeded during the 1st wave when he decreed the return to school activities, and so it continues in the 2nd wave allowing the normal functioning of the State, as if nothing happened and no people died. We observe that in less than 2 months of 2021 More people have died in Amazonas than during the entire year 2020.
The situation in the state of Amazonas is, Thus, It's an emergency and there's no time to waste.. It is urgent to spread this cry of SOS-Amazonas!! That workers in their workplaces, in the unions, in the neighborhoods, in social and political organizations and left-wing parliamentarians make their public statements and any solidarity action that arises. And let us flood social networks with #SOSAmazonas and photos with posters with the same motto.
