“I have nothing to do with your son’s eye. Take a plane and go. You won’t go through here.” This is what a supporter of Brazil’s outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro told a desperate father begging him to end the roadblock between the central Brazilian cities of Sorriso and Cuiaba so that his nine-year-old son would not miss a crucial surgery to repair his cornea. The father’s pleas fell on deaf ears. His son and the 24 other patients on the same medical transport bus all missed their appointments. This, sadly, is Brazil’s new reality. Since Bolsonaro lost his attempt to...