Tag: Michelle Bolsonaro

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2024 - 20:07 UTC

  Bolsonaro lawsuit against Lula dismissed

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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.

• Monday, July 13th 2020 - 08:06 UTC

  Bolsonaro's wife and two daughters test negative for the virus

  

  Michelle Bolsonaro, the wife of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro who is sick with the new coronavirus, said on Saturday that she and her two daughters had tested negative for the virus.