Senator Elias Vaz said he had been educated through an opportunity regarding data demand that President Jair Bolsonaro's administration had supported a request for 35,000 of the erectile-brokenness pills for the military.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:
The Brazilian military came in for firm investigation Monday after an administrator uncovered it had bought Viagra pills for the soldiers, drawing a whirlwind of jokes via online entertainment.
Senator Elias Vaz said he had been educated through an opportunity regarding data demand that President Jair Bolsonaro's administration had supported a request for 35,000 of the erectile-brokenness pills for the military.
"Our emergency clinics need more drug, and Bolsonaro and his group are utilizing public cash to purchase 'the little blue pill,'" said the resistance official, referring to the buy as "corrupt."
The reports he got don't specify Viagra by name, yet say the request was for sildenafil, the dynamic fixing in the medication, said the middle left representative.
The protection service said in an explanation the pills were as a matter of fact "to treat patients with pneumonic blood vessel hypertension," or hypertension in the lungs, one more use for sildenafil.
That did practically nothing to stem web-based entertainment clients' jollity.
Kid's shows highlighting tanks with hanging cannon multiplied on Twitter, where Viagra was one of Brazil's top moving points.
"This makes sense of why the tactical's help for Bolsonaro just endlessly rises," jested one client, playing on the extreme right president's tight relationship with the military.
Bolsonaro, a previous armed force skipper, has loaded his organization with individuals from the military, and is straightforwardly nostalgic for Brazil's 1964-1985 military autocracy, regardless of its record of freedoms infringement.
"Some say these pills are to help the military f*** a vote based system much harder," composed humorous news site Sensacionalista.
Left-wing Congressmen Marcelo Freixo and Elias Vaz in the mean time said they would request that investigators examine whether something different was enlarged about the buy: the bill.
They said there was proof the public authority was overbilled by up to 143 percent - - frequently an indication of debasement.