(Prensa Latina) A report by the US government, drafted by the Trump administration, reveals that Washington pressured Brazil not to purchase Sputnik-V, a Covid-19 vaccine developed by Russia, the media reported on Wednesday.
This information was in a document of the US Health and Human Services Department (HHS) on measures adopted in 2020, recently quoted by the The Washington Post daily and reproduced by local media outlets.
G1 news website claims that the HHS is in charge of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration Center, a regulating organization similar to Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency.
During the Trump administration, this department was run, between 2018-2021, by Alex Azar, a former executive at a large pharmaceutical company that even run the campaign against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes Covid-19, in the country when the pandemic first broke out.
In the section about ‘counteracting evil influences on the Americas,’ the text indicates that HHS Office of Global Affairs ‘used diplomatic relations in the region to mitigate the efforts’ of Cuba, Venezuela and Russia, committed to ‘increase its influence in the region at the expense of US security.’
The report quotes two examples of coordination with other US government agencies to ‘strengthen diplomatic ties and provide technical and humanitarian assistance to dissuade the countries of the region from accepting aid from those criminal States.’
At present, the US has health attachés in Brazil, China, India, Mexico, South Africa and in the UN mission in Geneva.
However, G1 reports that the HHS document does not show details on how this persuasion would have been exercised on the Bolsonaro administration.
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