Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• Monday, September 9th 2019 - 09:41 UTC

  Bolsonaro recovering from a five hour surgery; in ten days he returns to Brasília

  

  Vice President Hamilton Mourão will be Brazil's acting president through Thursday while president Jair Bolsonaro recovers from abdominal surgery resulting from his stabbing at a political rally last year, his spokesman said on Sunday.

• Sunday, September 8th 2019 - 12:08 UTC

  Nomination of Brazilian top public prosecutor rejected by his peers

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced on Thursday that he picked Augusto Aras to be the country’s new top public prosecutor, succeeding Raquel Dodge when her two-year term ends in two weeks.

• Sunday, September 8th 2019 - 10:40 UTC

  Bolsonaro undergoes surgery Sunday morning and will recover the rest of the week

  

  Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is in a hospital in Sao Paulo, ready for a fourth surgery scheduled for 07:00 Sunday morning. Bolsonaro arrived at the Vila Nova Star hospital accompanied by the First Lady Michelle and his son Carlos on Saturday evening but did not talk with the media.

• Saturday, September 7th 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  Bolsonaro calls for an outburst of flag colors on Independence Day to remind the world “Amazon is ours”

  

  President Jair Bolsonaro has urged people to attend the September 7 Independence Day festivities dressed in green and yellow to “show the world” that “the Amazon is ours.”

• Saturday, September 7th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  Brazil's agribusiness joins the campaign to stop rainforest fires in the Amazon

  

  The Brazilian Amazon is facing its worst spate of forest fires since 2010, with news of the destruction of the world's largest rainforest last month prompting global outcry and worries that it could hurt demand for the country's exports.

• Friday, September 6th 2019 - 09:51 UTC

  Brazilian minister iterates that Brigitte Macron is in effect “truly ugly”

  

  A Brazilian government minister said French first lady Brigitte Macron was “truly ugly” on Thursday, only days after the country's president appeared to endorse an attack on her appearance. Brazil's economy minister Paulo Guedes said he agreed with President Jair Bolsonaro's comments about Macron's looks.

• Thursday, September 5th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Bolsonaro accused Bachelet of meddling in Brazil´s affairs for condemning police violence

  

  Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday accused Chile's former leader Michelle Bachelet, now the United Nations human rights chief, of meddling in his country's affairs after she criticized a rise in police violence and an erosion of democracy.

• Tuesday, September 3rd 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Polls bash Bolsonaro: 38% say the president is doing “a bad or terrible job”

  

  Brazilians saying that President Jair Bolsonaro is doing a “bad or terrible” job rose to 38% from 33% previously, in the first major poll since the government faced global outcry over its handling of record fires in the Amazon rainforest.

• Tuesday, September 3rd 2019 - 09:11 UTC

  Bolsonaro ready to speak about Amazon fires at the UN General Assembly

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday he was eager to speak about the Amazon fires that have drawn world attention at the next U.N. General Assembly in September, as the issue appeared to erode his support at home.

• Tuesday, September 3rd 2019 - 09:05 UTC

  Brazilian top official threatens to “choke” Macron as “a chicken” and further insults the French First Lady

  

  Brazil's tourism ambassador and former Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter, Renzo Gracie, has posted a video on Twitter threatening to “choke” French President Emmanuel Macron - along with insulting his wife Brigitte.