Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

• Monday, August 26th 2019 - 18:42 UTC

  EU divided on ratification of trade pact with Mercosur, warns Donald Tusk

  

  The European Union Council president Donald Tusk said it was hard to imagine the bloc ratifying its trade pact with Mercosur as long as Brazil fails to curb the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest. The EU “stands by the EU-Mercosur agreement”, Tusk told reporters at a G7 meeting in Biarritz in southern France.

• Monday, August 26th 2019 - 17:56 UTC

  New fires raging in the Amazon; agriculture sector warns Bolsonaro: “nationalistic bravado will not win the game”

  

  Hundreds of new fires are raging in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, official data showed, as thousands of troops were made available to help fight the worst blazes in years following a global outcry. Multiple fires billowing huge plumes of smoke into the air were seen across a vast area of the northwestern state of Rondonia.

• Saturday, August 24th 2019 - 16:23 UTC

  Amazon fires: Thousands of people protested in front of Brazilian embassies; Montevideo was not an exception

  

  Thousands of people gathered on Friday in front of Brazilian embassies in different cities around the world and Montevideo was no exception. Several hundred protesters, mostly young people, cut off busy Bulevar Artigas Avenue at the embassy of the Amazonian country, whose government is widely criticized for its environmental policies by countless NGOs around the world.

• Saturday, August 24th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  G7 summit adds 'Amazon wildfires' to an already thorny agenda, which is scrapping a joint declaration

  

  G7 leaders gathering in France this weekend plan to hammer out “concrete measures” in response to the wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest, putting them on a collision course with Brazil's rightwing leader.

• Saturday, August 24th 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Ireland will not sign EU/Mercosur deal unless Brazil takes action to protect the Amazon rainforest

  

  As wildfires rage through the Brazilian Amazon, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said Dublin will vote against a trade deal between the European Union and Mercosur unless Brazil takes action to protect the rainforest.

• Saturday, August 24th 2019 - 09:26 UTC

  Mercosur and EFTA countries reach a free trade agreement

  

  South American trade block Mercosur reached a free trade agreement with four European countries, Argentine officials and Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said after talks in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, August 23rd 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Bolsonaro creates a “crisis cabinet” to address the Amazon forests fires and criticisms

  

  Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro following a Thursday meeting with his ministers at the Planalto Palace announced the creation of a crisis cabinet to address the Amazon rainforest situation.

• Friday, August 23rd 2019 - 09:28 UTC

  Ex minister calls Bolsonaro “corrupt and liar”, and warns of EU boycotts to Brazilian exports

  

  A Brazilian former minister and presidential candidate in the last election, called president Jair Bolsonaro, “corrupt, despicable, dishonest and irresponsible” during a conference on Thursday at the Minas Gerais Federal University.

• Thursday, August 22nd 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Bolsonaro suggests green groups started the blaze in the Amazon to blame him

  

  Wildfires in the Amazon rainforest in northern Brazil have ignited a firestorm on social media, with President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday suggesting green groups started the blazes. Images of fires purportedly devouring sections of the world's largest rainforest have gone viral on Twitter.

• Wednesday, August 21st 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Daytime smoke blackout in Sao Paulo blamed on Amazon rainforest fires

  

  Brazil's Amazon rainforest has seen a record number of fires this year, according to new data from the country's space research agency. The National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) said its satellite data showed an 83% increase on the same period in 2018.