Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• Thursday, September 10th 2020 - 08:21 UTC

  Brazil's supermarkets “committed” to lowering food prices announced Bolsonaro

  

  Brazil’s supermarkets are “committed” to lowering the prices of basic foodstuffs, President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday, hours after the Justice Ministry said it would ask supermarkets to explain recent price increases for some products.

• Saturday, September 5th 2020 - 08:47 UTC

  Bolsonaro slams environmental NGOs who accuse him “of setting fire to the Amazon”

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has slammed environmental NGOs as a 'cancer' and denounced what he said was an international conspiracy accusing him of being responsible for devastating Amazon wildfires.

• Friday, September 4th 2020 - 08:41 UTC

  Brazil reiterates that Covid-19 vaccines will not be obligatory

  

  Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro, who has consistently downplayed the severity of the coronavirus outbreak, reiterated on Thursday that COVID-19 vaccinations will not be obligatory when they become available.

• 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.