Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• Thursday, September 3rd 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  Bolsonaro's popularity soars as he extends payments for low income Brazilians until 2021

  

  Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro extended until the end of the year payments for low-income Brazilians hit by the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, a program that has boosted his popularity but created tension with his finance team.

• Tuesday, September 1st 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Bolsonaro back to surgery: this time to remove a kidney stone

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday he had been diagnosed with a kidney stone and would undergo surgery in September to remove it. The far-right leader, 65, has had a series of health issues, including four surgeries stemming from an attack in which he was stabbed in the abdomen during his 2018 presidential campaign.

• Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:45 UTC

  In just six months Brazil's Covid-19 death toll has overtaken 120.000

  

  Just over six months after registering its first case of the new coronavirus, Brazil crossed the grim threshold of 120,000 people killed by Covid-19 on Saturday, with no end in sight to the crisis.

• Wednesday, August 26th 2020 - 09:25 UTC

  Another member of the Bolsonaro family tests positive for coronavirus

  

  Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, the eldest son of president Jair Bolsonaro, has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, according to a statement by Flavio's spokesman.

• Monday, August 24th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Bolsonaro threatens to punch reporter who asked questions about corruption and the First Lady

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday threatened to punch a reporter repeatedly in the mouth after being asked about his wife's links to an alleged corruption scheme. “I so want to pound your mouth with punches,” the far-right president said when the reporter posed the question.

• Monday, August 24th 2020 - 09:25 UTC

  Despite Merkel’s “serious doubts,” German industry defends the Mercosur-EU agreement

  

  After Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel stated on Friday “considerable doubts” over whether to keep backing the European Union’s (EU) trade deal with the Mercosur due to environmental threats that represent the deforestation in Brazil’s Amazonia, the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) responded defending the agreement that was reached last year.

• Saturday, August 22nd 2020 - 08:17 UTC

  Pandemic appears to be leveling off in Brazil, according to WHO

  

  The coronavirus crisis in Brazil appears to be leveling off, if not easing, the World Health Organization said on Friday, offering a glimpse of light for the world's second-biggest COVID-19 hot spot.

• Friday, August 21st 2020 - 08:52 UTC

  Bolsonaro makes the academic more attendance flexible

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro enacted a law to exempt schools from having to meet a minimum number of school days amid the Covid-19 pandemic, making this academic year more flexible.

• Thursday, August 20th 2020 - 08:44 UTC

  Brazil invites actor Leonardo DiCaprio to visit the reality of the Amazon

  

  Brazilian Vice President Hamilton Mourao on Wednesday called on actor Leonardo DiCaprio to visit the Amazon to see the reality of the situation there, as the government faces criticisms for rising destruction in the world's largest rainforest.

• Tuesday, August 18th 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Brazilian congressional leader confident the tax reform will be approved this year

  

  Brazil's lower house speaker Rodrigo Maia said on Monday he is convinced Congress will approve tax reform and that it should be done this year to avoid the debate from being influenced by the 2022 presidential election.