Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• Wednesday, August 21st 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Cristina Kirchner leads call to free ex Brazil president Lula da Silva

  

  Presidential frontrunner Alberto Fernandez and running-mate Cristina Kirchner led calls by dozens of Argentine personalities on Tuesday to free Brazil's jailed leftist icon Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Human rights activists, lawmakers, trade unionists, artists and scientists signed a petition published in the left-leaning Pagina 12 daily.

• Tuesday, August 20th 2019 - 17:10 UTC

  Brazil's scientific community threatened by budget cuts: 80.000 scholarships on the line

  

  Brazil’s main science-funding agency will have to suspend more than 80,000 scholarships to postdoctoral researchers and graduate and undergraduate students starting in September unless it receives additional cash from the government.

• Tuesday, August 20th 2019 - 08:53 UTC

  Brazil considering declaring Hezbollah a terrorist organization, but also weighs trade with Iran and Lebanese community

  

  Brazil is considering designating Lebanese group Hezbollah a terrorist organization, as President Jair Bolsonaro increasingly aligns his government with the U.S. on foreign policy.

• Monday, August 19th 2019 - 08:58 UTC

  Fernandez wants to renegotiate IMF loan terms, in current conditions Argentina can't repay its debts

  

  Opposition candidate, Alberto Fernandez, said that Argentina would struggle under present conditions to repay a loan to the International Monetary Fund and he would seek to renegotiate the repayment terms, according to an interview published on Sunday by the newspaper Clarin.

• Saturday, August 17th 2019 - 06:47 UTC

  Bolsonaro administration has privatized some US$ 20bn of assets

  

  Brazil has privatized nearly US$ 20bn of assets and investments since the election of right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro, according to a government minister. Secretary of state for privatization, divestment and markets Salim Mattar announced that the government’s sweeping program of privatization was going as planned.

• Friday, August 16th 2019 - 07:21 UTC

  “If Cristina Kirchner gets in and closes the economy,” Brazil will leave Mercosur

  

  Brazil will pull out of the Mercosur trade bloc if the opposition party wins Argentina’s presidential elections later this year and closes the economy with protectionist policies, Brazil’s Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said on Thursday.

• Friday, August 16th 2019 - 07:11 UTC

  Brazil: Book with 188 blank pages dedicated to Bolsonaro, “should be respected and trusted”

  

  A 190-page book on why Brazil's conservative president Jair Bolsonaro “should be respected and trusted” has gone viral on social media after it emerged 188 of its pages are blank. The author said it was a “protest” to force people to “come up with their own answers” on the controversial leader.

• Thursday, August 15th 2019 - 05:20 UTC

  Bolsonaro insists Argentina is heading for “Venezuelan chaos” with the “leftist bandits”

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday that Argentina was heading for chaos as “leftist bandits” who performed well in the primary election will follow the path of Venezuela, which is mired in a deep economic crisis. Argentina's Merval stock index was down 34.47% since the start of the week.

• Thursday, August 15th 2019 - 05:16 UTC

  Massive women's protests in Brasilia against Bolsonaro's policies

  

  Tens of thousands of women took to the streets of Brazil's capital on Wednesday to denounce President Jair Bolsonaro, in the third anti-government protest in the city in two days.

• Tuesday, August 13th 2019 - 07:16 UTC

  Brazil does not need German funds to sustain Amazon forests, claims Bolsonaro

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro dismissed the importance of Germany's funding of sustainability projects in the country's forests, as the European nation weighed withdrawing from the region.