President Bolsonaro’s son, Eduardo, says increased hunger in Brazil is ‘fake news’

On Sunday, August 28, Federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro tweeted there was no increase in hunger in Brazil. He presented a graph comparing the world average and Brazil’s percentage of families living on less than US$1.90 per day.

Eduardo used a graph showing that there was a 15% increase in the world, and in Brazil, a 22% decrease. And from these numbers, the congressman concludes that “in the Bolsonaro government, poverty falls 22%”.

The increase in hunger has been the center of the debate between candidates Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers’ Party – PT) and Jair Bolsonaro (Liberal Party – PL), who participated in the first debate on Band TV on Sunday, August 28.

Eduardo repeated the same data presented by Bolsonaro in the interview he gave to “Jornal Nacional” (TV Globo’s News program) on the 26th.

According to the data from the Second National Survey on Food Insecurity in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Brazil, released by the Brazilian Research Network on Food Sovereignty and Security and Nutrition on July 8, there are 33.1 million Brazilians without food, and there are 14 million more Brazilians with severe food insecurity this year than in 2020.

With information from Estado de Minas