Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• Thursday, January 10th 2019 - 06:18 UTC

  Bolsonaro rejects migration pact: “Brazil is sovereign and decides who comes into our home”

  

  Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro reaffirmed his rejection of a global migration pact, saying decisions about who was able to come into his country need to be “sovereign.” His comments, posted in a series of messages on his Twitter account, reinforced Bolsonaro's declaration before he took office last week that he was going to pull Brazil out of the migration compact that was endorsed by the UN General Assembly in December.

• Tuesday, January 8th 2019 - 09:28 UTC

  Brazilian government and Petrobras in dispute over billions of dollars

  

  Brazil’s Economy Ministry denied that the government would pay US$ 14 billion to state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA to settle a dispute over an oil-producing zone off the Brazilian coast known as the transfer-of-rights area.

• Tuesday, January 8th 2019 - 06:54 UTC

  Bolsonaro advances on the Amazon: head of environmental protection agency resigns

  

  The head of Brazil's environmental protection agency has resigned following criticism from the country's newly inaugurated far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.

• Monday, January 7th 2019 - 09:37 UTC

  Bolsonaro in the process of purging some 3.300 federal staff allegedly communists or socialists

  

  The new government in Brazil, headed by President Jair Bolsonaro, has initiated the process of firing any “communists” and “socialists” working as contractors in government departments contending those holding opposition ideological views cannot properly execute its goals.

• Monday, January 7th 2019 - 09:23 UTC

  Organized crime challenges Bolsonaro despite deployment of federal forces

  

  The attacks and fire-bombings sweeping Brazil's northeastern state of Ceara continued unabated Sunday despite the deployment of at least 300 members the elite, military-style National Police Force to help bring an end to the violence.

• Saturday, January 5th 2019 - 09:37 UTC

  Brazil seeks supremacy in South America, said Bolsonaro, who did not discard a US military base in Brazil

  

  Brazil’s new President Jair Bolsonaro said that he would be open to the possibility of the United States operating a military base on his country’s soil, a move that would form a sharp shift in direction for Brazilian foreign policy.

• Saturday, January 5th 2019 - 09:24 UTC

  Dozens of tourists victims of mass robbery when climbing the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio

  

  Dozens of tourists hiking toward the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro were held at gunpoint for up to two hours in a mass robbery that could mark an early test for anti-crime crackdowns promised by Brazil’s new president.

• Saturday, January 5th 2019 - 09:22 UTC

  Troops sent to contain violence in northeast Brazil: criminal gangs challenging Bolsonaro?

  

  Brazil's government ordered troops to the northeast of the country on Friday to contain violence by criminal groups in the first test of new far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's hard-line law-and-order platform.

• Saturday, January 5th 2019 - 08:54 UTC

  Markets disappointed with Bolsonaro's watered down pensions reform

  

  Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday called for minimum retirement ages significantly lower than those proposed by his predecessor, sparking concerns among investors that he will back watered-down pension reform legislation.

• Thursday, January 3rd 2019 - 07:29 UTC

  Bolsonaro effect on Brazilian markets and currency

  

  A record high for Brazil shares and a more than 2% gain in the Real, spurred by positive policy moves by the country's new government, helped Latin American markets make a strong start to the New Year and buck gloom in global markets on Wednesday.