A Google News snapshot of global stories about the president of Brazil as he faces environmental threats and Amazon rainforest fires by rejecting European nations’ assistance and cooperation. Brazil’s Bolsonaro mocks, threatens and postures…
Who does Mr. Bolsonaro remind the international community of ?
A war of words erupts as the G7 reaches out to Brazil with offers of aid as fires in the Amazon rage. The president of Brazil tells the international community to ‘take a walk’ and ‘mind their own business’ and the US president tweets ‘full support’ of Bolsonaro’s announced policy of speeding Amazon exploitation, industrialization, deforestation. The #TrumpEffect, breaking international cooperative climate agreements and acting imperiously to reverse environmental protections in the US and globally, marches on …
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I have gotten to know President @jairbolsonaro well in our dealings with Brazil. He is working very
hard on the Amazon fires and in all respects doing a great job for the people of Brazil – Not easy.
He and his country have the full and complete support of the USA!
10:30 AM · Aug 27, 2019
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday thanked U.S. President Donald Trump for his support over the issue of Amazon wildfires, as the far-right Brazilian …
Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Bolivia’s Evo Morales are on opposite ends of the political spectrum. But critics accuse both of abetting the destruction of the rainforest …
Brazil will reject the $22 million offered by G7 countries to help the country fight the Amazon fires, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s chief of staff told Globo.
French President Emmanuel Macron fired back at Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s comments about his wife, calling them “incredibly disrespectful” and “sad.
The approval rating of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro’s government has plunged to 29.4% in August from 38.9% in February, according to a poll published …
The diplomatic row between the leaders escalated after the French president called the Amazon fires an international crisis rebuked Brazil’s president for …
Brazil’s President, Jair Bolsonaro, has recently come under international pressure for his comments about Brazil’s mismanagement of wildfires which are burning …
President Jair Bolsonaro’s disapproval rating jumped over the past six months as Brazilians opposed his health, environmental and educational policies, as well …
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Tuesday he was open to discussing G-7 aid for fighting fires in the Amazon rainforest if his French counterpart Emmanuel …
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said in a Facebook live broadcast on Thursday that countries that give money to preserve the Amazon rainforest do not do it …
Prosecutors in Brazil have launched what looks like a last-ditch effort to block President Jair Bolsonaro from nominating his son Eduardo to be the country’s next …
Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has signalled he may abandon controversial plans to make his son ambassador to the United States, amid a fierce …
Eric Farnsworth, Council of America’s vice president, comments on Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro rejecting G-7 emergency funds to help fight the fires …
BRASILIA (Reuters) – As the world recoils at the sight of fires ravaging Brazil’s Amazon jungle, the nation’s far-right government is undermining the agency …
Jair Bolsonaro is known for his pugnacious style. After seven turbulent months in office, Brazil’s far-right president has found a way to use these divisive tactics to …
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday the idea of creating an international alliance to save the Amazon rainforest would be treating Brazil like “a colony …
RIO DE JANEIRO — President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil on Friday fired the head of a government agency that had revealed a big increase in deforestation …
SAO PAULO, Brazil — First, Brazil announced it would take foreign aid away from projects to protect the Amazon rainforest and give it instead to cattle and …
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Pointing to the deaths of more than half a billion bees in Brazil over a period of just four months, beekeepers, experts, and activists are raising concerns about …
RIO DE JANEIRO — Ricardo Galvão was sure of the data. As director of a Brazilian government agency that monitors the Amazon, he watched as the numbers …
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro campaigned on promises to bring development to the Amazon. The centrepiece of his project? Hydroelectric dams that would …
Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets of 211 cities on August 13 to protest far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s austerity cuts …
Since August, Jair Bolsonaro has called for criminals to ‘die in the streets like cockroaches’, described the likely leaders of Argentina as ‘leftie crooks’ and …
Hundreds of indigenous women occupied a building of Brazil’s health ministry in the capital, Brasília, on Monday to protest against the policies of far-right …
Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro canceled a meeting this week with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian – getting a haircut instead …
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday said there was no evidence an indigenous chief, whose death was decried by the U.N. …
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has once again claimed that NGOs who have had funding suspended by Norway and Germany are behind the Amazon forest …
Brazil’s right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro, plans to push ahead with the appointment of his son Eduardo for ambassador to the United States despite …
The left-right divide—a healthy feature of a pluralist political system—is so toxic now that divergence of opinion has surpassed the realm of policymaking.
Pointing to the deaths of more than half a billion bees in Brazil over a period of just four months, beekeepers, experts and activists are raising concerns …
The international community is speaking out against the killing of an indigenous tribal leader in Brazil’s Amazon, even as the country’s president says there no …
Miami, July 29, 2019 — The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s remarks that Glenn Greenwald may do jail time …
The economic team of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro wants to privatize state-controlled oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA before the end of his term in …
PORTO VELHO, Brazil – The Group of Seven nations on Monday pledged $20 million to help Amazon countries fight fires, even as Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro …
French President Emmanuel Macron shot back at Jair Bolsonaro after the Brazilian President appeared to mock his wife in a post on social media. Brazil’s right.
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday accused non-governmental organizations (NGOs) of setting fires in the Amazon rainforest after the government …
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Federal deputy and son of the president, Eduardo Bolsonaro (PSL-SP), posted a video on social media entitled “Macron is an idiot.”.
In an interview after a ceremony at a military unit in Rio de Janeiro on July 27, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro denied that the recent decree authorizing the …
Ibama, the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, plans to replace the National Institute for Space Research in monitoring the …
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday said satellite data regarding deforestation of the Amazon rainforest collected by …
President Jair Bolsonaro again talked about the fires in the Amazon and said on his Twitter this Saturday that “it hurts the soul to see Brazilians blind …
President Jair Bolsonaro (PSL) set aside his pubic support of Donald Trump by dismissing Brazil’s participation in a possible military action in Venezuela.
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – After a six-year auction hiatus for the supply of large hydroelectric power plants in the Amazon region, president Jair Bolsonaro …
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s approval rating has plunged to 29.4 per cent today amid a bitter dispute with French President Emmanuel Macron over fires …
