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Montevideo, January 28th 2026 - 21:11 UTC

Tag: Michelle Bolsonaro

  • Wednesday, January 7th 2026 - 10:22 UTC

    Bolsonaro denied hospital trip after fall

    Michelle Bolsonaro fears her husband might have “neurological damage” after a fall that remained untreated for a while

    Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre De Moraes denied on Tuesday a request from former President Jair Bolsonaro's legal team to have their client transferred to a medical facility after suffering what his relatives claim was a fall while locked up at the Federal Police's headquarters in Brasilia to serve his 27-year prison sentence for masterminding the Jan. 8, 2023, attempted coup d'état.

  • Tuesday, April 2nd 2024 - 20:07 UTC

    Bolsonaro lawsuit against Lula dismissed

    Lula (R) cannot be targeted for his statements as president, the judge ruled

    A court in Brasilia on Tuesday rejected a lawsuit filed by former President Jair Bolsonaro and his wife Michelle, demanding that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva retract his statements that furniture was missing from the Alvorada Palace when he returned there last January. The Bolsonaros had also requested R$20,000 (US$3,953) in damages.

  • Thursday, March 16th 2023 - 06:39 UTC

    Bolsonaro has five days to deliver Saudi Arabian jewelry

    Bolsonaro kept a second bundle of luxury items, which entered Brazilian territory undetected

    Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was given five days by his country's Court of Audit of the Union (TCU) Wednesday to hand over the jewelry received in 2021 from Saudi Arabia.

  • Sunday, March 5th 2023 - 11:06 UTC

    Bolsonaro claims he did nothing wrong regarding the case of the First Lady's jewels

    Despite Bolsonaro's statements, Minister Dino wants a police enquiry into the case

    Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said he was being falsely accused in the case of the jewels he allegedly tried to smuggle into the South American country last year after an official trip to Saudi Arabia. “They are accusing me of a gift that I did not ask for, nor did I receive. There is no illegality on my part,” Bolsonaro insisted.

  • Saturday, March 4th 2023 - 09:35 UTC

    Scandal: Bolsonaro tried to smuggle Arabian jewels into Brazil

    Saudi Arabia gave First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro US$ 3 million worth of jewels right after Petrobras sold them a refinery for US$ 1.8 billion

    Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro tried to smuggle into his country almost US$ 3 million worth of jewels, O Estado de Sao Paulo reported. The newspaper article also explained that “a necklace, a ring, a watch and a pair of diamond earrings,” had been a gift Saudi Arabia gave then-First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro in Oct. 2021.

  • Friday, January 20th 2023 - 18:37 UTC

    Former Brazilian First Lady regarded as possible presidential contender

    Michelle has a good image but Bolsonaro's sons Eduardo and Flávio have political ambitions of their own

    Brazilian rightwing politicians are focusing on former First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro to pick up the baton should her husband be disenfranchised and therefore become ineligible to run in future elections.

  • Thursday, October 20th 2022 - 07:46 UTC

    Brazilian First Lady likens Lula to cancer

    Michelle has emerged as the voice of the evangelicals within Bolsonaro's team

    Brazilian First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro described former President Luiz Iácio Lula Da Silva as the country's “cancer” that needs to be beaten in the Oct. 30 runoffs.

  • Saturday, September 25th 2021 - 08:59 UTC

    Bolsonaro's wife takes COVID-19 vaccine, stirs controversy

    ”Taking a vaccine is a personal decision,” Bolsonaro insisted.

    Brazil's First Lady Michelle Bolsonaro has taken a vaccine against COVID-19, during the couple's recent trip to New York City, where President Jair Bolsonaro delivered a speech before the United Nations' 76th General Assembly earlier this week.

  • Thursday, August 5th 2021 - 20:28 UTC

    Bolsonaro rapidly losing support from the powerful Evangelic churches in Brazil

    “Bolsonaro's message is no longer the message of Jesus”, according to pastor and gospel singer Kleber Lucas, two times winner of Latin Grammys .

    Brazilian president Jair Mesias Bolsonaro is rapidly losing footing among the powerful evangelists, one of his main electoral supporters and who voted massively for him in 2018. “Bolsonaro's message is no longer the message of Jesus”, according to pastor and gospel singer Kleber Lucas.

  • Friday, July 31st 2020 - 10:35 UTC

    Brazilian First Lady tests positive for Covid-19

    Just days after her husband said he had overcome the virus with a negative test following weeks in quarantine, Bolsonaro's wife Michelle has tested positive

    Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's wife and one of his ministers have tested positive for COVID-19, according to an official statement on Thursday, as the spread of the novel coronavirus showed no signs of slowing in the country with the world's second-worst outbreak after the United States.

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