Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• Friday, September 2nd 2022 - 18:52 UTC

  Bolsonaro guilty of crimes against humanity for COVID-19 measures

  

  The Rome-based Permanent Peoples' Tribunal (PPT) found Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro guilty of crimes against humanity and Human Rights violations for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Thursday, September 1st 2022 - 19:18 UTC

  Boric hopes LatAm would not tolerate a coup in Brazil if Bolsonaro loses

  

  Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font Thursday said he hoped Latin America would stage a “joint reaction” if a coup d'état takes place in next month's presidential elections in Brazil.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentine minister Cafiero collects more “ignorant” expletives

  

  Lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, openly replied to Argentine foreign minister Santiago Cafiero, who had called him ignorant after Bolsonaro Jr criticized the judicial situation of Argentine vice-president Cristina Fernandez for whom federal prosecution is requesting twelve years of imprisonment on charges of corruption and benefitting with public works distribution.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2022 - 09:33 UTC

  Bolsonaro makes promises for next year

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro Tuesday says he would readjust the salary of civil servants in 2023, although, to do that beyond January 1, he would have to be reelected in October.

• Monday, August 29th 2022 - 10:48 UTC

  Presidential debate in Brazil almost ends up in a fistfight

  

  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva and the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro took center stage Sunday in a TV presidential debate featuring all candidates due to participate in the upcoming October 2 elections.

• Friday, August 26th 2022 - 17:37 UTC

  Lula calls Bolsonaro the court's jester

  

  Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva Thursday admitted in a TV interview that there were cases of corruption during his consecutive terms as President of Brazil (2003-2010).

• Thursday, August 25th 2022 - 10:38 UTC

  Brazilian presidential election: opinion polls show Bolsonaro closing in on Lula, but still not enough

  

  The poll from Instituto Parana Pesquisa was released 24 August and compared to the previous one from August second, the difference which stood at 5,5 percentage points has now fallen to 4,7 percentage points.

• Tuesday, August 23rd 2022 - 19:09 UTC

  Bolsonaro showed up for an interview with a cheat sheet written in one hand

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro affirmed Monday that he will respect the result of the October elections if the polls are held in a “clean and transparent” manner.

• Tuesday, August 23rd 2022 - 17:39 UTC

  Bolsonaro will respect the elections' outcome provided they are clean

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Monday evening in a TV interview that he will accept the election's outcome provided they are clear, and warned he was being pressured into becoming a dictator.

• Wednesday, August 17th 2022 - 20:42 UTC

  Bolsonaro fine-tunes terms of Brazil's adherence to ATT

  

  President Jair Bolsonaro has signed a decree extending Congress' role regarding Brazil's adherence to the UN's International Arms Trade Treaty (ATT).