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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…

President Jair Bolsonaro lashed out Sunday at the "cowardice" of Brazil's most widely viewed TV network for suggesting he bore heavy blame for the nation's more than 100,000 coronavirus deaths.The far-right president accused TV Globo of treating the death milestone as if it were "a World Cup final," saying on…

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro posted a photo of himself to Facebook congratulating his soccer team, Palmeiras, for winning the state title Saturday, moments after the health ministry confirmed the national COVID-19 death toll had surpassed 100,000.Why it matters: Brazil is only the second country to confirm more than 100,000 deaths from…

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…