Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• Wednesday, August 7th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Brazil's record on pesticides and weed killers could create problems for the Mercosur/EU trade agreement

  

  Brazil's agriculture minister on Tuesday defended a record number of pesticide and weedkiller approvals this year, saying the government was not “putting poison on anyone's plate.”

• Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 12:55 UTC

  No end in Brazil to controversy, while deforestation continues: 67% increase over the same period last year

  

  Deforestation in Brazil's rainforest has jumped around 67% in the first seven months of the year, according to preliminary data from Brazil's space research agency, which the government has attacked as misleading and harmful to the national interest.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  Bolsonaro argues that disarming people is not going to stop mass shootings

  

  President Jair Bolsonaro argued for his signature policy of relaxing gun control measures, saying they will not stop mass shootings such as those that left 31 dead in the US over the weekend. “Disarming people isn't going to keep that from happening,” Bolsonaro said.

• Monday, August 5th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Sacked head of Brazil's space agency insists that rising deforestation in the Amazon was undeniable

  

  Ricardo Galvao, the sacked head of Brazil’s space research agency, said the trend of sharply rising deforestation was undeniable, a day after he was fired following a public spat with President Jair Bolsonaro over data published by the agency.

• Monday, August 5th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

  Paraguayan VP claims only half truths became known about obscure Itaipu deal

  

  Paraguay's Vicepresident Hugo Velázquez said that so far only half truths regarding the somber deal with Brazil about the sale of electricity are known to the public. The affair has left the government of President Mario Abdo on the brink of collapse despite having dodged impeachment before the Senate this past week.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 20:47 UTC

  Amazon deforestation: Bolsonaro ready to sack official who exposed him

  

  The head of Brazil's National Institute for Space Research said on Friday he was going to be sacked following a row with President Jair Bolsonaro over deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

• Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 18:07 UTC

  Bolsonaro's haircut a coarse gesture from Brazil to France's FM

  

  Brazil's authorities maintained Friday President Jair Bolsonaro's haircut was not the reason for leaving France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian in the lurch and argued it was all a matter of agenda.

• Friday, August 2nd 2019 - 19:20 UTC

  Brazil agrees to review secret Itaipu deal that nearly cost Paraguay's President Abdo his job

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said he was open to reviewing the controversial recent energy agreement with Paraguay, which cost dignataries from the latter country their jobs and left President Mario Abdo Benitez on the brink of impeachment.

• Friday, August 2nd 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Bolsonaro names military officers to the truth committee investigating dictatorship disappearances

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday appointed two members of the armed forces to a commission investigating deaths and disappearances during the 1964-81 military dictatorship.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2019 - 10:53 UTC

  Journalists organization question Bolsonaro's remarks regarding The Intercept Brazil

  

  The Committee to Protect Journalists on Tuesday condemned Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's remarks that Glenn Greenwald, the co-founder and editor of The Intercept Brasil, could “do jail time” and suggesting that he had married a Brazilian citizen to avoid deportation, as reported by a local outlet.