Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• Tuesday, April 16th 2019 - 06:44 UTC

  American Museum of Natural History will not host a dinner to honor Bolsonaro

  

  The American Museum of Natural History in New York said on Monday that it will not host a planned gala dinner that was set to honor Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro as “Person of the Year.”

• Monday, April 15th 2019 - 09:34 UTC

  Brazil fuel-price controversy: Minister Guedes confident he can convince Bolsonaro and overcome the situation

  

  Brazilian Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said he’ll clear up any confusion from President Jair Bolsonaro’s decision to halt a planned fuel-price hike by Petrobras.

• Monday, April 15th 2019 - 09:33 UTC

  Brazilian president Bolsonaro clarifies his remarks on the Holocaust

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has clarified remarks he made on Friday about the Holocaust which were vehemently condemned by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center and Israel's President Reuven Rivlin.

• Sunday, April 14th 2019 - 08:38 UTC

  NY Museum of Natural History embarrassed over a booking to honor Brazilian president Bolsonaro

  

  New York’s Museum of Natural History said it was “considering its options” after discovering a private function booked to take place there would honour Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

• Sunday, April 14th 2019 - 08:21 UTC

  Brazil's Lower House speaker and supporter of the pensions' reform, under police investigation

  

  Brazilian police have accused Rodrigo Maia, Brazil’s powerful lower house speaker, and his father of receiving bribes totalling at least 1.4 million reais (US$ 361,869), a document on Friday showed. The federal police document was delivered to the Supreme Court, as part on an ongoing investigation into Maia.

• Saturday, April 13th 2019 - 07:44 UTC

  Bolsonaro prepares to open Amazon reserve to mining: pledges no bureaucratic impediments

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday the country could open a vast reserve in the Amazon rainforest to mining, a move attempted by his predecessor that was quickly rescinded following an international environmental outcry.

• Friday, April 12th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Brazil's lower house speaker forecasts pension reform will be approved by next June

  

  Brazil’s pension reform process will pick up momentum after the Easter holidays, staying on track for approval in the lower house in May or June, the lower house speaker Rodrigo Maia said on Thursday.

• Friday, April 12th 2019 - 09:08 UTC

  Bolsonaro announces 13th month payment for 14 million of Family Fund recipients

  

  Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro announced Thursday an expansion of a social welfare program that was created by his jailed left-wing foe Lula da Silva.

• Wednesday, April 10th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Bolsonaro sacks education minister: he proved more conservative than the president

  

  Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro on Monday sacked his education minister, an ultraconservative who had drawn public ire over a range of controversial proposals including a revision of school textbooks to deny the 1964 military coup.

• Wednesday, April 10th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Bolsonaro reveals Brazil is working with the US to sow dissent in Venezuelan army

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday he is working with the US government to sow dissent within the Venezuelan army. Bolsonaro, during an interview with Jovem Pan radio, and added if there is a military invasion in Venezuela, he would ask to seek the counsel of Brazil's National Defense Council and Congress on what, if any, action his country should take.