Brazil

• Wednesday, October 31st 2018 - 18:47 UTC

  Pompeo speaks with Bolsonaro of “vibrant partnership” between Brazil, US

  

  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Monday congratulated Brazil's President-Elect Jair Bolsonaro for his victory and “reinforced the vibrant partnership between the United States and Brazil based on our mutual commitment to promote security, democracy, economic prosperity, and human rights,” it was reported.

• Wednesday, October 31st 2018 - 12:47 UTC

  Bolsonaro in favour of the right to bear arms

  

  Brazil's President elect Jair Bolsonaro has vowed to push for a change in the current legislation which requires people to justify their need to carry a weapon in order to be given the mandatory license.

• Wednesday, October 31st 2018 - 09:01 UTC

  Several Army generals expected in Bolsonaro's cabinet to be announced next Monday

  

  Brazil’s far-right president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, is likely to tap army generals and an ultra-free-market economist for key roles in his cabinet. The former army captain styles himself as an outsider, even though he has spent a long career in Congress, and has mostly sought prospective ministers with little political experience.

• Wednesday, October 31st 2018 - 08:43 UTC

  Brazil's unemployment down to 11.9% in the third quarter

  

  Brazil's unemployment rate fell for the sixth straight month in September, according to government data released on Tuesday, two days after far-right congressman Jair Bolsonaro was elected president on a promise of sweeping change. The jobless rate -- measured in sliding three-month intervals -- was 11.9% for the period from July to September, down from 12.1% from June to August.

• Tuesday, October 30th 2018 - 17:14 UTC

  Bolivia's YPFB must be more competitive to negotiate gas with Brazil

  

  Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB) needs to lay out a more competitive plan in terms of prices and delivery methods if it is to negotiate the sale of gas to private Brazilian companies in an adverse political context, according to former minister and hydrocarbons specialist Álvaro Ríos.

• Tuesday, October 30th 2018 - 11:00 UTC

  Bolsonaro pledges to help the Venezuelan people end the dictatorship but through peaceful means

  

  The president elect of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro in his first television interview as president elect said it was necessary to solve the problem of the Venezuela dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro, but underlined “there will be no intervention in Caracas, it will be through peaceful means”.

• Tuesday, October 30th 2018 - 10:50 UTC

  Uruguay sends congratulations message to the Brazilian people and the election of Bolsonaro

  

  Finally on Monday the Uruguayan government sent an official message congratulating the Brazilian people for their civic display on Sunday which elected president Jair Bolsonaro. Likewise the Uruguayan government confirmed its willingness to continue working and developing the bilateral relation with its large neighbor and strongest economy in Latin America.

• Tuesday, October 30th 2018 - 08:50 UTC

  Future economy minister says Mercosur not a priority for Bolsonaro's Brazil

  

  Mercosur is not a priority, and Argentina is not a priority for the new government of Brazil, the priority is to trade with all the world. The strong statement came from Paulo Guedes, signaled as the next Finance minister of president elect Jair Bolsonaro's cabinet and a crucial player in that team since the newly elected leader has admitted a limited knowledge of economics.

• Tuesday, October 30th 2018 - 07:23 UTC

  Bolsonaro wants Brazil's top anti corruption judge as his Justice minister

  

  Brazil's president-elect Jair Bolsonaro says he wants the country's best-known anti-corruption judge to be justice minister or to serve on the Supreme Court. Sergio Moro has been the driving force behind an anti-corruption probe known as Operation Car Wash.

• Monday, October 29th 2018 - 10:31 UTC

  Electoral Tribunal sends strong message to president elect Bolsonaro underlining the no-incident election

  

  At exactly 19h18m, Sunday 28 October, the Electoral Superior Tribunal, TSE, minister Rosa Weber stated that Jair Bolsonaro, candidate for the “Brazil above all, God above all of us” coalition was mathematically elected president of Brazil. The new president is to take office next January first, for the period from 2019 to 2022.