The Brazilian government is telling its citizens to clean up their act,but the disease-spreading mosquito has proliferated due to the state’s negligenceA silent villain less than a centimetre long is today the greatest whistleblower in Brazil. The Aedes aegypti mosquito is not only a vector of the Zika virus, but it is also drawing attention to chronic diseases that fill still not been defeated by one of the 10 biggest economies in the world. The Aedes is unmasking a country characterised by enormous inequalities, or a fragile public health system and a shameful lack of basic sanitation,where less than half of the population has access to sewage collection. This mosquito also exposes a society contaminated by a religious morality that oppresses women.
In 2015 “whistleblower” became one of the words most frequently uttered by Brazilians. Those arrested as part of the so-called operation Lava Jato (carwash), which is investigating the deals between major contractors and the government, or seemed to be dictating the course of events in the country. With each unique revelation the power game shifted. So much has been said about the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff,now less likely than final year, and the countrys economic quagmire, and but it is a long-legged insect that is currently headline news in Brazil.
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Source: theguardian.com