Brazil is being closely watched by at least two casino billionaires \u2013 Las Vegas Sands magnate Sheldon Adelson and MGM China stakeholder Pansy Ho.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Bolsonaro has yet to take a formal position on casinos and integrated resorts. But his son visited with Adelson in January. Brazil sent several officials to Nevada to meet with Las Vegas tourism leaders to discuss ways to promote the South American country as a vacation destination.<\/p>\n
Brazil has been anything but stable over the last decade. Former President Dilma Rousseff, the first woman to hold the Brazilian presidency, was impeached and removed from office in 2014 for breaking budgetary laws. Her successor, President Michel Temer, was arrested and charged in 2019 for his alleged role in Operation Car Wash \u2013 the largest political corruption investigation case in the country’s history.<\/p>\n
\nTemer was replaced by Jair Bolsonaro. The current president has called the coronavirus a “little flu,” and says athletes such as himself are immune. He continues to shake hands and greet crowds, and has urged businesses ordered to close by the 26 state governors to reopen in an effort to save the economy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
“There is so little testing in Brazil that its real number of COVID-19 infections might be far higher than the official figure. One university study has estimated the total to date at higher than the US’ world-leading 1.2 million,” a Wall Street Journal <\/i>article read this week. The report said Brazil is ill-equipped to combat the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A lawmaker in Brazil says legalizing commercial casinos would help South America’s largest country rebound from the economic devastation of COVID-19. While many countries around the world have seemingly crossed the peak of the coronavirus and flattened the curve, the disease is running rampant in Brazil. Brazilian Federal Deputy Pompeo de Mattos is no doctor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":135015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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