Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• Thursday, May 9th 2019 - 09:09 UTC

  Brazilian F1 Grand Prix will move from Sao Paulo to Rio do Janeiro in 2020

  

  The Brazilian Grand Prix will move next year to a new purpose-built circuit in Rio de Janeiro that could be named after Ayrton Senna, the country’s president revealed on Wednesday. Amid uncertainty over the long term future of the current event in Interlagos is Sao Paulo, Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro said that a switch of venues would happen in 2020 when the event moves to Rio.

• Wednesday, May 8th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Bolsonaro signs decree making it easier to own, carry and import weapons

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree on Tuesday making it easier for gun enthusiasts to own, carry and import weapons in one of the world's deadliest countries. Beaming members of Congress and industry lobbyists clapped and made pistol signs with their hands as the ex-army captain relaxed rules that critics fear could pave the way for the carrying of weapons in the streets.

• Wednesday, May 8th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Brazilian military caution Bolsonaro on the extreme views of the influential “Trotsky of the right”

  

  The growing differences between members of the military and the so-called ideological faction of Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro’s government prompted a reaction from a retired Army High Commander--Eduardo Villas Bôas—who considers the president to be absent in the dispute and wants to limit what he sees as institutional disrespect.

• Wednesday, May 8th 2019 - 09:52 UTC

  Hundreds march in Rio to protest education federal funding cuts by Bolsonaro's administration

  

  Hundreds of students and professors protested against public education funding cuts outside a military high school in Brazil where far-right President Jair Bolsonaro was attending a ceremony. Bolsonaro’s conservative government sparked outrage last week when it revealed at least 30% cuts to the annual budgets of federally funded high schools and universities.

• Tuesday, May 7th 2019 - 08:57 UTC

  Bolsonaro insists in being honored in the US: this time possibly in Texas

  

  Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro is considering travelling to the United States to be honoured at an event in Texas next week, his spokesman said on Monday, just days after he cancelled a heavily criticized visit to New York City.

• Saturday, May 4th 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Bolsonaro cancels trip to New York where he was to be honored as “Person of the Year”

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has cancelled a planned trip to the United States after protests from gay rights and environmental campaigners. Mr Bolsonaro was due to attend a ceremony in his honor in New York later in May organized by the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce.

• Friday, May 3rd 2019 - 09:10 UTC

  Agricultural machine makers anxiously waiting for Brazil's new farm credit package

  

  Uncertainty surrounding Brazil’s new farm credit package is worrying executives from the world’s largest agricultural machine makers since a delay on the definition of the program could hurt their sales.

• Tuesday, April 30th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Brazilian foreign minister has hopes of a major Venezuelan opposition rally planned for May first

  

  Brazil's foreign minister on Monday voiced high hopes for a major rally planned this week in Venezuela by Juan Guaido, the country's self-proclaimed president. Guaido, who is recognized by more than 50 countries including the United States and Brazil, has called protests for the May 1 workers' holiday that he has vowed will be “the biggest in the history” of Venezuela.

• Monday, April 29th 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  Bolsonaro sons aim at the pragmatic vice-president Mourao calling him “traitor”

  

  A barrage of criticism this week from the sons of Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro aimed at the vice president has laid bare stark divisions in his cabinet, raising serious concerns from senior members of his four-month-old government.

• Saturday, April 27th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Lula da Silva claims that Brazil is governed by “a gang of madmen”

  

  Former Brazilian president Lula da Silva on Friday said the country is governed by a “gang of madmen” in his first interview from prison, where he is serving an almost nine-year sentence.