Tag: Hamilton Mourão

• Friday, September 4th 2020 - 08:41 UTC

  Brazil reiterates that Covid-19 vaccines will not be obligatory

  

  Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro, who has consistently downplayed the severity of the coronavirus outbreak, reiterated on Thursday that COVID-19 vaccinations will not be obligatory when they become available.

• Thursday, April 30th 2020 - 07:37 UTC

  Brazilian Vice President says army will be deployed to fight Amazon deforestation and fires

  

  Brazil plans to deploy its armed forces to fight deforestation and fires in the Amazon jungle, Vice President Hamilton Mourão said on Wednesday; in an effort to protect the world’s largest rainforest where destruction has surged since last year.

• Wednesday, January 22nd 2020 - 08:34 UTC

  Bolsonaro pledges to create an “Amazon Council” to protect the rainforest

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday he will create an “Amazon Council” to coordinate the protection and sustainable development of the world's largest rainforest.

• Thursday, January 16th 2020 - 19:15 UTC

  Brazilian Antarctica base reopened from its ashes after eight years

  

  Brazil Wednesday reopened its scientific Comandante Ferraz base in Antarctica, which had been destroyed in a fire in 2012. In the incident two soldiers died and more than two thirds of the facilities were destroyed.

• Wednesday, December 11th 2019 - 03:10 UTC

  Argentine president anticipates a close relationship with Brazil, no matter rulers' personal differences

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernández announced support for Mercosur and anticipated a joint ambitious all embracing agenda with Brazil, based on shared fraternal history and which he underlined is far beyond any personal difference of current rulers.

• Tuesday, December 10th 2019 - 17:25 UTC

  Brazilian VP attends presidential inauguration in Argentina, calls for mutual help

  

  Brazil's Vicepresident Hamilton Mourao Tuesday said in Buenos Aires that his country and Argentina must help each other as he attended President Alberto Fernández' inauguration after news reports had heralded the Jair Bolsonaro administration was not sending any dignitaries for the occasion.

• Tuesday, September 10th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Bolsonaro announces he'll be back in office next Thursday

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday in a video from his hospital bed that he is ready to go back to work after having a hernia operation and his spokesman said he will reassume the presidency on Thursday as planned.