By DIANE JEANTET and DÉBORA ÁLVARES Associated Press BRASILIA (AP) — Brazil's pugnacious president, Jair Bolsonaro, survived 2020 in surprisingly good shape personally and politically, with buoyant popularity ratings despite his own bout of COVID-19 and a broader pandemic that has killed nearly 200,000 of his countrymen. But the new year — and a looming reelection campaign — bring risks on all sides for the populist who has fought to limit environmental protections and rein in leftist influence on government and culture while feuding even with fellow conservatives in Latin America's largest nation. Resurgent COVID-19 has lifted Brazil's death rate […]

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