Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• Friday, February 1st 2019 - 10:38 UTC

  Dam burst in Brazil confirms 110 deaths and 238 missing: “deadliest-ever mine disaster”

  

  Residents devastated by a mining dam burst in Brazil that may have killed more than 300 people reacted on Thursday with indifference and in many cases anger to miner Vale SA’s pledges to pay victims’ families and improve safety.

• Wednesday, January 30th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  Corruption remains mainly unchanged in the Americas, according to Transparency International

  

  With an average score of 44 for three consecutive years, the Americas region continues to fail in making any serious inroads against corruption, according to the latest report from Transparency International. Compared to other regions, the Americas is similar to Asia Pacific (average score: 44), but behind Western Europe and the European Union (average score: 66).

• Wednesday, January 30th 2019 - 08:54 UTC

  Latin American markets outperform world stocks struggling over US/China trade talks

  

  Latin American stocks rose on Tuesday, outperforming world stocks that struggled to hold gains ahead of keenly awaited U.S.-Sino trade talks, earnings of top technology companies and an impending U.S. Federal Reserve decision on interest rates.

• Tuesday, January 29th 2019 - 09:01 UTC

  Bolsonaro recovering after a nine-hour operation; General Hamilton Mourao acting president

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has undergone surgery to remove a colostomy bag he had fitted after he was stabbed in the stomach on the campaign trail in September. He is expected to be on strict bed rest for two days after the operation, a presidential spokesman said.

• Tuesday, January 29th 2019 - 08:30 UTC

  Investors confident of Brazil: Net FDI flows equaled 4.7% of GDP in 2018

  

  Brazil’s current account deficit doubled last year as economic growth fueled demand for foreign goods and services, while foreign investment reached its highest share of GDP since 2001, the central bank said on Monday.

• Saturday, January 26th 2019 - 08:16 UTC

  Bolsonaro undergoes surgery on Monday and will spend ten days in hospital

  

  Brazil's new right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro will undergo surgery on Monday in Sao Paulo's Albert Einstein hospital to remove a colostomy bag he has had since he was stabbed on the campaign trail last year, his spokesman said on Friday.

• Saturday, January 26th 2019 - 07:50 UTC

  Dam collapses in Brazil: mud sludge leaves over 200 miners missing

  

  Brazilian rescuers were searching for some 200 missing people after a tailings dam burst on Friday at an iron ore mine owned by Vale SA, the second major dam disaster involving the company in just over three years.

• Friday, January 25th 2019 - 20:45 UTC

  Brazil's First lady will be examined for suspicious transaction

  

  Michelle Bolsonaro, first lady of Brazil, will be subjected to an examination of the Brazilian treasury within an investigation into a series of suspicious transactions involving the president's eldest son, Valor newspaper reported Friday.

• Friday, January 25th 2019 - 09:51 UTC

  Foggy burial for Bolsonaro's promises of a transparency era

  

  Brazil's new far-right government on Thursday gave hundreds more public servants the power to keep official records from the public for decades by labeling them “secret” and “ultra-secret.” Vice President Hamilton Mourao, standing in while President Jair Bolsonaro was at the World Economic Forum in Davos, signed the decree expanding exceptions within the 2011 transparency law.

• Friday, January 25th 2019 - 09:29 UTC

  Brazil eliminates Mercosur symbol from new passports

  

  Brazilian new passports will no longer have the symbol of Mercosur as currently they do together with those from the other member states, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. The announcement was made by cabinet chief Onyx Lorenzoni, during a press conference in which he anticipated the targets for the first hundred days of president Jair Bolsonaro's administration.