Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• Friday, October 25th 2019 - 09:27 UTC

  Chinese and Indian tourists won't need visas to visit Brazil

  

  President Jair Bolsonaro on a Far East visit said on Thursday Brazil will drop its requirement that visiting Chinese and Indian tourists or businesspeople obtain visas.

• Thursday, October 24th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Bolsonaro warns next Argentine government: Mercosur must continue with Macri's trade policies

  

  A possible victory of opposition candidate Alberto Fernández in Argentina's presidential election on Sunday could put the Mercosur trade bloc at risk, Brazil's right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro, said on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, October 23rd 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Brazil approves pensions' reform: markets soar and stocks hit an all time high

  

  Brazil's Senate on Tuesday gave final approval to a landmark reform of the country's social security system, in a step seen as key to stabilizing public finances and the economy. The text was approved by a vote of 60-19.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  Brazilian oil spill: Bolsonaro does not discard a “criminal act” designed to harm a major auction next month

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro questioned whether a far-reaching oil spill on the nation’s northeastern shore may have been a criminal act designed to harm a major oil auction scheduled for November.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2019 - 08:43 UTC

  Bolsonaro's son Eduardo takes over the leadership of PSL party

  

  Lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, took over the leadership of the Social Liberal Party (PSL) in the lower house of Congress on Monday in a bruising struggle for control of the party that is not over.

• Friday, October 18th 2019 - 08:34 UTC

  Bolsonaro family fighting for control of the party and its war chest, US$ 94 million

  

  A push by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to make his son the leader of his party in the lower house of Congress was rejected on Thursday, deepening a rift with party leaders that could further fragment the far-right firebrand's legislative base.

• Thursday, October 17th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Brazilian police launch corruption probe into Bolsonaro's party head

  

  Brazilian police launched a corruption probe this week into the head of President Jair Bolsonaro’s right-wing Social Liberal Party (PSL) Luciano Bivar, a police source revealed, adding to tensions within the fractious governing coalition.

• Wednesday, October 16th 2019 - 18:10 UTC

  Brazil following closely the Vatican does Synod fear bad international press

  

  A Brazilian diplomat said last week that the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro doesn’t fear the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon taking place this month at the Vatican, but that the Catholic bishops “involuntarily reinforce the campaign of the European lobbies, who are very afraid of the competition of Brazilian agriculture.”

• Wednesday, October 16th 2019 - 17:54 UTC

  Brazilians allowed to double purchases in duty free shops to US$ 1.000

  

  Brazilian Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes, signed a resolution on Monday raising the limit of purchases in duty-free shops from US$ 500 to US$ 1,000. The new value for purchases from foreign and domestic airports and border free shops, starts January 1, 2020.

• Wednesday, October 16th 2019 - 08:10 UTC

  A “ghost ship” smuggling Venezuelan oil probable cause of the massive spill along Brazilian northeast beaches

  

  A huge oil spill off Brazil's northeastern coast may have involved a “ghost ship” carrying Venezuelan oil in breach of US sanctions, a Petrobras expert close to the probe into the disaster said on Tuesday.