Tag: Brazil

• Friday, December 27th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Brazil promulgates heavy handed anti crime bill

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has signed into law an anti-crime bill that toughens measures to stem a rampant deadly crime wave, although he vetoed some parts of the bill, the government said on Wednesday.

• Thursday, December 26th 2019 - 12:10 UTC

  Brain scan of president Bolsonaro detected no abnormalities

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday night that he briefly lost his memory after falling at his presidential residence in Brasilia, the capital, earlier this week.

• Tuesday, December 24th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Bolsonaro has skull scanned after a fall in the bathroom

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized on Monday evening after a fall in the official presidential palace, his office said.

• Tuesday, December 24th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Maduro says barracks assailants are refuging in Brazil and asks Bolsonaro to return the stolen weapons

  

  The president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, said Monday that 11 people have been arrested in connection with an assault early Sunday at a military post in the south of the country and said that some of those involved were in Brazil along with the stolen weapons of the installation.

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 10:30 UTC

  Approval rating of Bolsonaro steadily dropping and negative rating climbing

  

  The approval rating of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's government is dropping steadily and its negative rating is climbing, a CNI/Ibope poll showed on December 20, as his combative political style and a weak recovery weigh on his popularity.

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 08:40 UTC

  Bolsonaro back steps after telling a journalist he had “the face of a homosexual”

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Saturday that it was wrong for him to tell a journalist a day earlier that he had “the face of a homosexual.”

• Saturday, December 21st 2019 - 10:48 UTC

  Falklands patrol HMS Clyde decommissioned in Portsmouth before its future life with the Brazilian Navy

  

  A Royal Naval patrol vessel has returned to its home base in Portsmouth for the final time after spending 12 years on patrol around the Falkland Islands. Sailors and crew of the HMS Clyde have taken part in a decommissioning ceremony for the 13-year-old vessel before it is turned back over the BAE Systems for its future life in Brazil.

• Saturday, December 21st 2019 - 10:31 UTC

  Trump will not levy new tariffs on Brazilian steel and aluminum, Bolsonaro says

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday that US President Donald Trump told him in a phone conversation that his administration will not levy new tariffs on Brazilian steel and aluminum as threatened earlier this month.

• Friday, December 20th 2019 - 09:51 UTC

  Bill authorizing mining in Brazilian protected indigenous reserves is ready, said Bolsonaro

  

  Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that a bill authorizing mining on protected indigenous reserves was ready and only needed to be sent to Congress for consideration.

• Friday, December 20th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Brazil mining regulator dismisses a Vale dam is in danger of collapse: “structurally sound”

  

  A dam owned by iron ore company Vale SA that was the subject of an investigative report by a TV program last week is structurally sound and there is no reason for concern, Brazil’s national mining regulator said this week.