Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• Tuesday, January 14th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Brazil pushing ahead with plan to allow mining on tribal lands

  

  Brazil’s government said it was pushing ahead with plans to allow mining on tribal lands, briefing European diplomats on proposals that have drawn criticism from indigenous advocates in Brazil and overseas.

• Friday, January 10th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  Fires in the Amazon rainforest grew 30.5% in 2019; below the historic average

  

  The number of fires in the Amazon rainforest grew 30.5% in 2019 from the previous year, according to data released by space research agency INPE. The agency said the number of fires detected in the Amazon region was 89,178 in 2019 compared with 68,345 fires in 2018.

• Tuesday, January 7th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Bolsonaro supports Trump and combating terrorism; Teheran summons Brazilian ambassador

  

  Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro offered his support to US counterpart Donald Trump on Monday amidst widespread criticism for the killing of a top Iranian commander.

• Tuesday, January 7th 2020 - 09:18 UTC

  Bolsonaro will submit to Congress bill reducing the size of government

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro told journalists on Monday that his administration will likely submit to the Congress in February a reform to reduce the size of the government, aiming to cut public spending.

• Monday, January 6th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  “Fernandez will be received with full honors of head of state”, Bolsonaro

  

  If Argentine president Alberto Fernandez visits Brazil, “he will be received with all the honors of head of State, which he deserves”, according to his peer Jair Bolosonaro, which has been interpreted as an easing of tensions between both leaders following the initial stormy clashes.

• Saturday, January 4th 2020 - 09:45 UTC

  Brazil's Bolsonaro suffering from a hernia, result of the stomach stabbing in 2018

  

  Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro says he is suffering from a hernia, apparently, as a result of being stabbed in the stomach in 2018, local media reported on Friday. “I'm pregnant,” the far-right leader joked with journalists at a hospital in Brasilia on Thursday night. “There's a protraction, and maybe in February I'll have a health check.”

• Thursday, January 2nd 2020 - 08:58 UTC

  Challenging second year ahead for Brazilian president Bolsonaro

  

  Beginning his second year as Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro has held firm to his combative culture-warrior policies while feuding with critics at home and abroad — an approach that has thrilled many supporters while eroding his efforts to win allies and lift the world’s ninth-largest economy out of its doldrums.

• Friday, December 27th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Brazil promulgates heavy handed anti crime bill

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has signed into law an anti-crime bill that toughens measures to stem a rampant deadly crime wave, although he vetoed some parts of the bill, the government said on Wednesday.

• Thursday, December 26th 2019 - 12:10 UTC

  Brain scan of president Bolsonaro detected no abnormalities

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday night that he briefly lost his memory after falling at his presidential residence in Brasilia, the capital, earlier this week.

• Tuesday, December 24th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  Bolsonaro has skull scanned after a fall in the bathroom

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized on Monday evening after a fall in the official presidential palace, his office said.