Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• Thursday, June 22nd 2023 - 11:02 UTC

  Brazilian Gov't picks Bolsonaro's last FM for Ottawa embassy

  

  With the endorsement of Acting President Geraldo Alckmin, Brazil's Government Wednesday sent the name of former Foreign Minister Carlos França to the Senate to be appointed ambassador to Canada, it was published in the Diário Oficial da União (DOU - Official Gazette).

• Tuesday, June 20th 2023 - 10:37 UTC

  Brazil's STF sends 2014 case against Bolsonaro to lower court

  

  Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Dias Toffoli Monday sent to the Federal District Court the second criminal action in which former President Jair Bolsonaro is a defendant, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Monday, June 19th 2023 - 10:26 UTC

  Bolsonaro aide's phone found to contain coup plans

  

  The mobile telephone of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's aide-de-camp Lieutenant Colonel Mauro Cid was found to contain a series of WhatsApp messages with other military officers openly advocating a coup d'état after last year's elections, it was reported.

• Thursday, June 15th 2023 - 09:46 UTC

  Bolsonaro's funds frozen over unpaid Covid-19 fines

  

  A Sao Paulo court Wednesday froze former President Jair Bolsonaro's bank accounts over unpaid fines worth R$ 87,000 (about US$ 18,000) for failing to comply with health laws during the Covid-19 pandemic, it was reported.

• Friday, June 2nd 2023 - 11:15 UTC

  Bolsonaro faces disenfranchisement following new TSE ruling

  

  Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro might be disenfranchised in the investigation Brazil's Superior Electoral Court Justice Benedito Gonçalves, acting as case rapporteur, greenlighted Thursday.

• Monday, May 29th 2023 - 10:19 UTC

  Bolsonaro has offended all journalists, São Paulo court rules

  

  Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro must pay some US$ 10,000 in compensation for “collective moral damage” after having offended journalists while in office, a court of appeals ruled last week on a case filed in 2021 by the Union of Journalists of São Paulo.

• Sunday, May 7th 2023 - 13:27 UTC

  Lula insists Brazilians need to get vaccinated against Covid-19

  

  Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva highlighted during the weekend the end of the Covid-19 international emergency. The South American country was the second with the most deaths recorded from the malady. Lula blamed his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro's denialism for that fact.

• Friday, May 5th 2023 - 10:38 UTC

  Brazil's Supreme Court lifts secrecy on Bolsonaro's alleged vaccination card fraud

  

  Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexander De Moraes lifted the seal of secrecy from the probe into former President Jair Bolsonaro's alleged use of a fake vaccination card to enter the United States, Agencia Brasil reported. In the case, Colonel Mauro Barbosa Cid, a former aide of Bolsonaro's, has been placed under arrest.

• Thursday, May 4th 2023 - 10:12 UTC

  Police raid Bolsonaro's home in Covid-19 vax card probe

  

  Brazilian Federal Police Wednesday morning raided Jair Bolsonaro's home in Brasilia and seized the former President's mobile phone and other evidence in a probe into allegations that the retired Army captain had falsified his Covid-19 vaccination certificate to enter the United States, which he denied.

• Friday, April 28th 2023 - 10:50 UTC

  Brazil's Security Cabinet sacks military personnel involved in Jan. 8 riots

  

  Brazilian authorities have sacked 28 military personnel and one civilian for their conduct during the Jan. 8 uprising in Brasilia, Acting Institutional Security Cabinet (GSI) Minister Ricardo Cappelli announced Thursday in a statement.