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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…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s chief of staff, Army General Walter Souza Braga Netto, has tested positive for COVID-19, his office said on Monday, becoming the seventh Brazilian minister to have contracted the disease. Braga Netto is doing well and has no symptoms, the office said in a…

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s chief of staff, Army General Walter Souza Braga Netto, has tested positive for COVID-19, his office said on Monday, becoming the seventh Brazilian minister to have contracted the disease. Braga Netto is doing well and has no symptoms, the office said in a…

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Several of Mr Bolsonaro's supporters are accused of spreading fake news via social media Facebook has complied with an order by Brazil's Supreme Court to block the accounts of a dozen top allies of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.The group are accused of spreading fake news…

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro pictured on July 30. Photo: Alan Santos/Palacio Planalto/DPAJair Bolsonaro has long tried to play down the coronavirus, even as infections surged past 2.6 million and he himself fell ill with a bout of Covid-19 Now the far-right leader is urging Brazilians to ‘face up to’ the…

Updated / Saturday, 1 Aug 2020 12:12 President Jair Bolsonaro says nearly everyone in Brazil will probably contract coronavirus Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro has said that nearly everyone will probably end up catching the coronavirus, and he has urged Brazilians to "face up to it", saying there was nothing to…

SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO — 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…