Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• Thursday, June 9th 2022 - 09:39 UTC

  Amazonas police make arrest in British reporter case

  

  Brazilian authorities have arrested a suspect in the case of British journalist Dom Phillips and his local indigenous affairs expert friend Bruno Araújo Pereira who went missing in Amazonia earlier this week. Phillips and Araújo were last seen Sunday after leaving Sao Rafael in a boat on Sunday on their way to indigenous enclaves where they planned to collect materials for a future book.

• Wednesday, June 8th 2022 - 09:23 UTC

  Bolsonaro prays for missing British reporter to be found

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Tuesday said anything could happen in the case of a British journalist and a local expert on indigenous affairs who went missing Sunday in Amazonia's Javari Valley.

• Monday, June 6th 2022 - 19:13 UTC

  If re-elected, Bolsonaro might create three more ministries

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Monday said he would most likely create three new ministers if he is reelected this year: Public Security, Fisheries, and Foreign Trade.

• Friday, June 3rd 2022 - 23:04 UTC

  Argentina's Alberto Fernández to attend Los Angeles Summit

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández finally confirmed he will be attending the ninth Summit of the Americas convened for next week in Los Angeles following a 25-minute telephone conversation with his US colleague Joseph Biden, during which they also agreed on a bilateral meeting for July 25.

• Friday, June 3rd 2022 - 21:31 UTC

  Bolsonaro insists his followers must prepare for war ahead of October elections

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro called on his followers Friday to be ready and spare their country from following the same paths as other South American nations in the Oct. 2 elections.

• Thursday, June 2nd 2022 - 21:47 UTC

  Lula links Bolsonaro supporters to 2018 murder of Afro-descendant activist

  

  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, who according to every poll is poised to win the Oct. 2 elections and thus return to the Planalto Palace, Thursday linked supporters of the incumbent head of state to the 2018 murder of Rio de Janeiro Socialist councilwoman and activist Marielle Franco.

• Wednesday, June 1st 2022 - 10:51 UTC

  Six new bodies rise Pernambuco death toll to 106

  

  Brazilian rescue agents have retrieved six more bodies of people who lost their lives during last week's severe rainstorms in the northeastern state of Pernambuco, thus rising to death toll to 106, Agencia Brasil reported Tuesday. Ten others remain listed as “missing.”

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 10:52 UTC

  Elimination of a “Brazil cost” item represents a further 1,5 percentage point reduction in tariffs

  

  The Brazilian government is drafting a presidential decree to change tax revenue mechanisms, which the economic team argues it will lead to a 1.5 percentage point reduction in the rates levied on all imported products. This is part of president Bolsonaro's administration policy of (gradually) opening the Brazilian economy to foreign competition.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:41 UTC

  Bolsonaro going to Pernambuco as death toll from storms keeps rising

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro Sunday announced he would be traveling first thing Monday to Recife to see for himself the devastation caused by yet another rainstorm in the country's northeast, which has left at least 84 dead, and over 50 missing as figures are updated constantly.

• Saturday, May 28th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Bolsonaro says Brazil's role acknowledged by world leaders

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro highlighted his country's importance worldwide following the announcement of a one-on-one meeting with his US colleague Joseph Biden at the upcoming Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, in addition to his encounter in February with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow.