President Jair Bolsonaro, seeing his popularity drop in Brazil’s impoverished northeast, visited the region on Monday after heavy rains left more than 90 dead and 5,000 homeless over the past few days.
The president, who’s up for re-election in October, flew with several cabinet members over areas where mudslides buried dozens of people in the state of Pernambuco. The region has been suffering with torrential rain for a week.
“Unfortunately these catastrophes happen,” he told reporters in Recife, the state’s capital. “We are all obviously saddened and I’m here to express my condolences to the families of the victims.”
