Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

Tuesday, January 15th 2019 - 09:08 UTC
Macri flies to Brazil for a first face to face meeting with Bolsonaro

Argentine President Mauricio Macri will hold talks with his new Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday likely to center on consolidating trade ties between South America's two biggest economies, officials said. Battling recession and seeking re-election this year, Macri needs to boost Buenos Aires's side of a steep trade imbalance with its main trading partner.
Tuesday, January 15th 2019 - 09:01 UTC
Supermodel Gisele is a “bad Brazilian” claims Agriculture minister Dias

Supermodel Gisele Bündchen is a “bad Brazilian” whose environmental activism has harmed the country’s image abroad, the nation’s new Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina Dias said on Monday.
Tuesday, January 15th 2019 - 08:36 UTC
Bolsonaro pensions reforms aim to save some US$ 270bn in ten years

Far-right Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s new government wants to save 1 trillion Rreais (some US$ 269.48 billion) over 10 years via pension reforms economists say are vital to undo the growing fiscal deficit, a Brazilian newspaper reported on Monday.
Monday, January 14th 2019 - 08:45 UTC
Italian political militant at large for years extradited from Bolivia/Brazil to Rome

An Italian former communist militant captured in Bolivia is on a plane back to Rome, officials have confirmed. Cesare Battisti, 64, is wanted for four murders in Italy during the 1970s, which he denies committing. He was extradited after being found in Santa Cruz de La Sierra in an international police operation.
Friday, January 11th 2019 - 12:27 UTC
Bolsonaro's “traditional values” reaches Brazilian school textbooks

School textbooks in Brazil will no longer need to highlight the country's ethnic diversity under rule changes brought in under the government of new far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.
Friday, January 11th 2019 - 12:24 UTC
Embraer/Boeing marriage receives the blessing from Brazil's government

The Brazilian government on Thursday said it would allow a proposed tie-up between plane makers Embraer SA and Boeing Co to go forward, capping weeks of uncertainty in which President Jair Bolsonaro expressed his hesitation.
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.