Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• Thursday, February 14th 2019 - 08:37 UTC

  Bolsonaro back in Brasilia: government should get moving again

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro left hospital on Wednesday, ending a 17-day hiatus at the helm of Latin America's biggest economy during which several high-profile political issues were put on the backburner.

• Wednesday, February 13th 2019 - 09:35 UTC

  Growing concerns in Brazil about a power vacuum and cabinet bickering

  

  Brazil is going through a rudderless period as President Jair Bolsonaro lies in a hospital bed following stomach surgery, with high-priority political issues such as pension reform on the backburner until he recovers, analysts and observers say. The limbo, which has lasted more than two weeks, might finally be coming to an end this week, according to reports.

• Wednesday, February 13th 2019 - 09:26 UTC

  Brazilian minister blasted for ignoring as “irrelevant” an icon of Amazon environmentalist

  

  Brazilian environmental groups on Tuesday blasted President Jair Bolsonaro's environment minister after he dismissed the murdered Amazon rain forest defender Chico Mendes as “irrelevant.”

• Tuesday, February 12th 2019 - 09:51 UTC

  Brazil ready to provide humanitarian aid to Venezuela through Roraima

  

  Venezuelan opposition envoy Maria Teresa Belandria was received as her country’s official ambassador in Brazil on Monday and said Brazil’s government would provide all possible support to get humanitarian aid to the border.

• Monday, February 11th 2019 - 07:34 UTC

  Bolsonaro recovering from pneumonia, thanks Brazilians for their prayers and ministers for helping lead the country

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has beaten fever caused by pneumonia after his abdominal surgery two weeks ago, his hospital said on Saturday. The president, 63, “has no fever and has made good clinical and post-operative progress,” Albert Einstein Jewish Hospital in Sao Paulo said in its daily update.

• Saturday, February 9th 2019 - 07:12 UTC

  Bolsonaro medical condition improving but will still remain some time in hospital

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has no fever or pain and is quickly overcoming a bout of pneumonia, signs that his medical condition is improving, spokesman General Otavio Rego Barros said on Friday.

• Friday, February 8th 2019 - 08:22 UTC

  Bolsonaro recovering from intestinal surgery but has caught pneumonia

  

  Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has pneumonia after registering a fever during a hospital stay, but a tweet on the far-right leader’s Twitter profile on Thursday said he was “well.”Bolsonaro had an operation on Jan. 28 to remove a colostomy bag that was put in place after he was stabbed while campaigning ahead of Brazil’s election last year.

• Thursday, February 7th 2019 - 09:19 UTC

  Lula, in a new corruption conviction is sentenced to another 13 years in prison

  

  A Brazilian court on Wednesday handed a near 13-year sentence to Lula da Silva, in a new corruption conviction for the former president already serving a lengthy jail term in a separate case.

• Wednesday, February 6th 2019 - 08:54 UTC

  Bolsonaro remains in semi intensive care unit, with no discharge date

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s medical condition has improved, with no fever, but he remains in semi-intensive care with visits restricted and there is no date set for him to leave the hospital, his spokesman, Otavio de Rego Barros said on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, February 5th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  Bolsonaro ally to lead the Senate, but his negotiating capacity have yet to be tested

  

  The Brazilian Senate elected a pro-government lawmaker as their chief, potentially boosting President Jair Bolsonaro’s reform agenda but also leaving the administration’s strength in the upper house in question. Bolsonaro congratulated Davi Alcolumbre, saying his challenge is to act on Brazilian voters’ desire for change.