Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• Wednesday, June 26th 2019 - 09:17 UTC

  Relief for Facebook legal problems in Brazil: fine reduced to US$ 5 million

  

  Facebook Inc’s fine for withholding WhatsApp messages from a drug-trafficking investigation in Brazil should be reduced to 23 million reais (US$ 5 million), a Brazilian federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2019 - 09:06 UTC

  Bolsonaro to meet President Xi for the first time next Friday in Osaka

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who criticized China last year for “buying” up his country, will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping for the first time on the sidelines of this week's G20 meeting in Japan, his office said on Monday.

• Tuesday, June 25th 2019 - 08:35 UTC

  Bolsonaro supports Rio to host the F1 Grand Prix starting 2021; Sao Paulo refuses to yield

  

  President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday there is a “99% chance” that Rio de Janeiro will host Formula One's Brazilian Grand Prix starting in 2021 -- the latest in a battle with Sao Paulo, the current host city.

• Monday, June 24th 2019 - 12:37 UTC

  Irish farmers protest Mercosur negotiations before EC offices in Dublin

  

  A protest by the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) is taking place at the European Commission offices in Dublin over the “double standards of the commission” in their reckless pursuit of a sell-out trade deal” with the Mercosur trade bloc.

• Saturday, June 22nd 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  The Economist: “Despite turmoil, Brazil is starting to fix its pension system”

  

  Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s president, likes romantic metaphors. “Our marriage is stronger than ever,” he said in May after the press speculated that he was at odds with the economy minister, Paulo Guedes. “The marriage ended with no hard feelings,” he said this month after sacking Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz, a minister who had said that others in government should be more careful on social media—thus outraging Bolsonaro fans who tweet about the virtues of military rule and the horrors of homosexuality.

• Saturday, June 22nd 2019 - 08:56 UTC

  Brazilian evangelical pastor and husband of a lawmaker killed by two of 51 adopted children

  

  Police in Brazil suspects an evangelical pastor, the husband of a prominent federal lawmaker, was shot dead this week by two of their 55 children following an extramarital “betrayal,” according to news reports on Friday.

• Friday, June 21st 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Bolsonaro returns indigenous land claims to the Ministry of Agriculture

  

  Right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro issued a new decree putting decisions on indigenous land claims in the hands of the Ministry of Agriculture, four weeks after Congress rebuffed him on the move that is sought by Brazil’s farm lobby.

• Thursday, June 20th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Bolsonaro insists with private savings accounts for the pensions' reform

  

  Brazil’s congressional committee on pension reform began debating a revised bill, as president Jair Bolsonaro urged lawmakers to rethink their move to drop his plan to introduce a retirement system based on private savings accounts.

• Thursday, June 20th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Brazilian Justice minister Moro blames organized crime for the hacking of his messages

  

  Brazilian Justice Minister Sergio Moro said on Wednesday that a criminal organization was responsible for leaks of his private messages as a federal judge, which raised questions about his ethics while overseeing a major corruption probe.

• Wednesday, June 19th 2019 - 09:46 UTC

  Brazil Senate overturns Bolsonaro's decree allowing arms for self defense

  

  Brazil’s Senate on Tuesday overturned a decree signed last month by right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro that drastically expanded the number of people allowed to carry weapons in public.