Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• Saturday, August 21st 2021 - 08:59 UTC

  Bolsonaro asks Brazilian Senate to depose Justice De Moraes

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, a former Army captain, Friday launched his counterattack against Federal Supreme Court (STF) and Electors Supreme Court (TSE) Justice Alexandre De Moraes and requested his dismissal to the Senate.

• Friday, August 20th 2021 - 14:09 UTC

  Brazil interested in buying gas from Argentina's Vaca Muerta

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Thursday announced in his weekly broadcast on social media that his country had started negotiations to purchase gas from Argentina's Vaca Muerta. “It is not easy to start importing gas, creating, building pipelines,” Bolsonaro said.

• Friday, August 13th 2021 - 09:34 UTC

  Bolsonaro subject to yet another inquiry, this time for releasing secret Brazilian Federal Police reports

  

  Brazil's Supreme Federal Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered Thursday the opening of a new criminal investigation against President Jair Bolsonaro, for allegedly disclosing secret Federal Police documents while campaigning to discredit the electronic voting system.

• Wednesday, August 11th 2021 - 09:18 UTC

  US confident of Brazilian institutions and capacity to hold free and fair elections

  

  “No tampering with elections or election results”, was the message from US president Joe Biden administration to Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro, according to Sao Paulo media following the visit last week of US national security advisor, Jake Sullivan.

• Wednesday, August 11th 2021 - 09:01 UTC

  Brazil: Lula likens Bolsonaro to former US President Donald Trump

  

  After staging an unprecedented military parade in front of the Planalto Palace, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro was heavily criticized by his predecessor and electoral rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who said he wants to imitate Donald Trump.

• Wednesday, August 11th 2021 - 08:37 UTC

  Brazilian Deputies give printed voting bill a full red light

  

  Brazil's House of Deputies Tuesday voted against President Jair Bolsonaro's plan to make changes to the electronic voting system, which would have allowed for more reliable monitoring of post-election counting.

• Tuesday, August 10th 2021 - 07:49 UTC

  Brazilian indigenous group APIB files criminal charges against President Bolsonaro before ICC

  

  Indigenous lawyers have filed genocide charges against Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro before the International Criminal Court (ICC) based in The Hague, it was announced Monday.

• Monday, August 9th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Bolsonaro fights back fall in opinion polls: promises free LPG bottles to low income families

  

  Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is fighting back his collapse in public opinion polls ahead of next year's what seems certain his reelection bid, by reaching out to what he once described as corrupt political parties and system, but also with more handouts to the vulnerable population.

• Monday, August 9th 2021 - 08:19 UTC

  Deforestation of Amazonia takes turn for the worse despite Brazilian President's promises

  

  Brazil's National Institute Institute for Space Research (Inpe) has released over this past weekend updated data regarding the deforestation of Amazonia between August 2020 and July 2021.

• Thursday, August 5th 2021 - 20:28 UTC

  Bolsonaro rapidly losing support from the powerful Evangelic churches in Brazil

  

  Brazilian president Jair Mesias Bolsonaro is rapidly losing footing among the powerful evangelists, one of his main electoral supporters and who voted massively for him in 2018. “Bolsonaro's message is no longer the message of Jesus”, according to pastor and gospel singer Kleber Lucas.