Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• Thursday, November 22nd 2018 - 09:19 UTC

  Brazil's future agriculture minister does not discard dumping Mercosur

  

  Tereza Cristina, tapped by President-elect Jair Bolsonaro to head Brazil's Agriculture Ministry, said on Wednesday the country could decide to abandon the Mercosur trade bloc if it failed to address inequality.

• Thursday, November 22nd 2018 - 09:13 UTC

  Brazil's secret dealings to contract Cuban physicians to work in the More Doctors program

  

  Folha de Sao Paulo a leading Brazilian daily has revealed the secret negotiations between the administration of ex-president Dilma Rousseff and the Cuban government to contract Cuban doctors to work in Brazil.

• Thursday, November 22nd 2018 - 09:10 UTC

  Chile and Brazil sign free trade agreement in Santiago

  

  Chile and Brazil signed a free trade agreement on Wednesday that scraps red tape and tariffs between the two South American economies, in a move both governments said would give a boost to regional integration.

• Thursday, November 22nd 2018 - 09:00 UTC

  Brazil president elect party wants to ensure the biggest bloc in the Lower House

  

  Brazil President-elect Jair Bolsonaro's party expects to recruit members from rivals in the Chamber of Deputies to form the biggest bloc with 61 seats, lawmakers said on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, November 21st 2018 - 09:23 UTC

  “Car Wash” anti corruption team will work with Brazil's incoming Justice minister

  

  Brazil's incoming justice and security minister Sergio Moro announced on Tuesday he was recruiting part of his team from the massive “Car Wash” anti-corruption probe that snared former president Lula da Silva. Moro said he would be a “fool” not to work again with people he had worked with on the Car Wash investigation as they “have already proven their integrity and efficiency.”

• Monday, November 19th 2018 - 16:36 UTC

  Castello Branco to head Petrobras under Bolsonaro

  

  Brazilian President-elect Jair Bolsonaro's future Economy Minister Paulo Guedes Monday announced Economist Roberto Castello Branco has accepted the invitation to become the next Petrobras chairman.

• Thursday, November 15th 2018 - 20:49 UTC

  Orthodox liberal nominated to Brazil's central bank, Roberto Campos Neto

  

  Economist Roberto Campos Neto has accepted an invite to become the head of Brazil's central bank under the government of the incoming president, Jair Bolsonaro, the nation's future economy minister said in a statement on Thursday.

• Thursday, November 15th 2018 - 08:57 UTC

  Bolsonaro nominates expert in US affairs as Brazil's next foreign minister

  

  Brazil's president-elect Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday named as foreign minister a career diplomat who currently heads the ministry's United States and Canada department. Ernesto Araujo, 51, was an early supporter of the far-right leader, and courted controversy when he referred to members of the left-wing opposition as “terrorists.”

• Wednesday, November 14th 2018 - 10:19 UTC

  Military “lobby” expected to add a new minister in president elect Bolsonaro's cabinet

  

  Brazil president elect Jair Bolsonaro is expected to name another member of the military group backing him, retired General Oswaldo Ferreira, former head of the army engineers corps, as his Transportation minister in charge of improving Brazil's anemic national infrastructure.

• 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.