Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• 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.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Trump after a trade deal with Brazil, but Brasilia says any tariffs agreements must include Mercosur members

  

  President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he will pursue a U.S. trade agreement with Brazil, suggesting a friendly relationship with President Jair Bolsonaro could help lower trade barriers between the two biggest economies in the Americas.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  Bolsonaro questions credibility of a truth commission that investigated human rights abuses under the military dictatorship

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday questioned the credibility of a truth commission that investigated human rights abuses under the country's military dictatorship, suggesting it was politically influenced by the left. 

• Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Bolsonaro says no “strong evidence” that a tribal chief found dead in the Amazon was murdered

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday there is no “strong evidence” that a tribal chief found dead in the Amazon was murdered, as police probe the killing in the remote region.

• Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Killing of Brazilian indigenous leader under federal investigation

  

  Brazilian federal authorities are investigating the alleged murder of a leader from the aboriginal Waiãpi tribe at Mariry, a village in the Amapá region as conflicts between explorers and indigenous communities are on the rise.

• Monday, July 29th 2019 - 11:58 UTC

  Brazil gold miners invade remote reserve in the Amazon and kill a tribal leader

  

  Heavily armed gold miners have invaded a remote indigenous reserve in northern Brazil and stabbed to death one of its leaders, officials say. Residents of the village in Amapá state fled in fear and there were concerns violent clashes could erupt if they tried to reclaim the gold-rich land. Police have arrived in the area.