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Brazilian Senator Chico Rodrigues speaks in Brasilia in February. Photo: Brazilian senate press office handout via AFP Police found nearly US$18,000 hidden in Senator Chico Rodrigues’ house, reports say Search was part of investigation into US$3.5 million in stolen coronavirus funds Topic |   Coronavirus pandemic Published: 5:35am, 16 Oct, 2020 Updated:…

President Trump’s contraction of Covid-19 puts him in the company of two other conservative leaders who also made light of the risks of the coronavirus only to fall ill themselves, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. For both of those leaders, getting ill not only didn’t…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro told the United Nations on Tuesday that indigenous people in the Amazon were to blame for fires in the rainforest this year and attacked the media for spreading panic about the coronavirus pandemic.President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro speaks during the 75th annual U.N.…

BRASÍLIA (Reuters) - President Jair Bolsonaro said late on Wednesday Brazil was being “disproportionately” criticized for fires in the Amazon rainforest and Pantanal wetlands, at a time when many places around the world were seeing a surge in blazes.The number of fires in the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, likely…

No results matched your search EconomyAug 26, 2020 05:06PM ET 2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro looks on during a press statement at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia 2/2 BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday he had rejected a proposal by his Economy…

"You only know how to do evil, to use a pen largely for evil. Your chance of surviving is quite a bit lower." By REUTERS  AUGUST 25, 2020 00:08 Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's president-elect, on October 28, 2018 (photo credit: REUTERS/RICARDO MORAES/POOL) Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro continued his attack on journalists…

On Tuesday, after television coverage of the Democratic National Convention drew to a close, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez expanded on her 97-second recorded convention message by taking to Instagram. The firebrand progressive, a favorite target of Republicans and an occasional thorn in the side of the Democratic establishment, had a message…

/ Americas Issued on: 12/08/2020 - 19:07Modified: 12/08/2020 - 19:11 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in the capital Brasilia, July 24, 2020. © Evaristo Sa, AFP Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday angrily denied the existence of fires in the Amazon rainforest, calling it a "lie," despite data produced by his own government showing…

Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s government, meanwhile, has worked to erode Indigenous protections and ownershipA logging branch within the Menkragnoti Indigenous Land. Illegal logging and deforestation for farm formation are the major causes of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest. Credit: Marcio Isensee e Sa Getty Images Indigenous people in the Brazilian…

Twenty months into the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil is on the brink of a democratic disaster.  More than 100,000 Brazilians have died of COVID-19, a pandemic the far-right president largely dismissed as a conspiracy. The economy is approaching a free-fall. And Bolsonaro’s authoritarian attempts to seize control of the…