Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• Wednesday, November 14th 2018 - 10:02 UTC

  Bolsonaro nominates former General as Brazil's defense minister

  

  Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro appointed retired army General Fernando Azevedo e Silva as defense minister on Tuesday, adding another former military officer to his cabinet while saying that a career foreign service officer may get the top diplomat's job.

• Wednesday, November 14th 2018 - 08:26 UTC

  Bolsonaro's campaign accounts are under review for possible illegal donations

  

  Brazil’s top electoral authority said it has found irregularities in the campaign accounts of President-elect Jair Bolsonaro and gave him three days to explain. In a document published late Monday, the TSE electoral court described possible campaign donations from illegal sources, donations from unidentified donors and lack of information on how campaign funds were spent, among other issues.

• Tuesday, November 13th 2018 - 10:42 UTC

  Bolsonaro's economic team incorporates another Chicago orthodox liberal

  

  Joaquim Levy, managing director and World Bank chief financial officer, has been tapped to be the next president of Brazil’s national economic and social development bank BNDES, news advanced to a column in daily O Estado de S. Paulo published on Sunday.

• Tuesday, November 13th 2018 - 07:21 UTC

  Human Rights Commission blasts Brazil for weak protection of land and gender rights

  

  The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on Monday expressed concerns about the state and outlook for rights in Brazil, singling out for particular worry some of the signature campaign issues of far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro.

• Friday, November 9th 2018 - 09:09 UTC

  Bolsonaro vows to investigate Americas largest development bank, Brazil's BNDES

  

  Right-wing President-elect Jair Bolsonaro vowed in a tweet on Thursday to investigate Brazil’s state-run national development bank, BNDES, for corruption by opening its “black box” of secret transactions. BNDES is the largest development lender in the Americas with a loan book larger than the World Bank’s.

• Thursday, November 8th 2018 - 11:54 UTC

  Brazil president elect backtracks on China, Israel, and insists with the pensions' reform

  

  Brazil president-elect Jair Bolsonaro backtracked on some of his more controversial pledges promising to expand trade with China and rethink the idea of moving the country’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Bolsonaro is currently in Brasilia for various meetings with senior officials and transition arrangements.

• Thursday, November 8th 2018 - 10:31 UTC

  Bolsonaro names a woman from the farmers' caucus as Agriculture minister

  

  Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro appointed his first female cabinet member on Wednesday evening, picking the head of the farmers’ caucus in the lower house as agriculture minister.

• Thursday, November 8th 2018 - 06:55 UTC

  Brazil future Justice minister Moro pledges to fight organized crime and corruption

  

  The judge who is the most prominent face of Brazil's anti-corruption campaign denied that his appointment as justice minister was a reward for having convicted and jailed a political rival of his new boss.

• Wednesday, November 7th 2018 - 08:55 UTC

  Brazilian inflation to peak in second quarter for 2019, forecasts Central bank

  

  The Brazilian central bank on Tuesday forecast that inflation is likely to peak in the second quarter of 2019 before easing towards its target, adding that underlying inflation was at “appropriate” levels.

• Wednesday, November 7th 2018 - 08:51 UTC

  Bolsonaro wants pension reform passed before he takes office on January first

  

  Brazil’s right-wing President-elect Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday that Congress must make some progress this year on a pension reform proposed by the outgoing government before he takes office on January first.