Brazilian Ambassador to China Paulo Estivallet de Mesquita told the communist country’s Global Times propaganda newspaper in an interview published Thursday that self-proclaimed conservative President Jair Bolsonaro’s country has a “great interest” in China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Elizabeth Frawley Bagley, the Biden administration’s nominee to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, is facing accusations of antisemitism from both sides of the aisle after a 1998 interview surfaced in which she referred to the “Jewish lobby.”
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro mocked Hollywood actor Mark Ruffalo and appeared to insult his intelligence on Thursday in response to Ruffalo accusing Bolsonaro of threatening a “coup” in his own country.
President Joe Biden did not engage in confrontation in his first in-person meeting with conservative Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, likely disappointing leftist activists who flooded Los Angeles with photos of the latter urging Biden to condemn him in the past week.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro confirmed Thursday that he would travel to Los Angeles in June for the Summit of the Americas and said he planned to meet American counterpart Joe Biden in person, adding that Biden treated him “as if I didn’t exist” during their last meeting, and blaming the snub on “age.”
Brazil’s Ministry of Mines and Energy announced on Monday that it would remove José Mauro Ferreira Coelho as president of Petrobras, the state oil company, after 40 days of holding the position.
The Biden administration has reportedly invited Spain to attend the Summit of the Americas, scheduled next month in Los Angeles. The summit was already controversial in Latin America because the authoritarian regimes of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua were not invited to attend. The invitation to former regional colonial power Spain could become a further irritation.
The Ministry of Health of Brazil announced on Sunday that it would officially end the public health emergency in the country caused by the Chinese coronavirus pandemic – the same day World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus insisted that the pandemic was nowhere near ending.
Brazil’s conservative President Jair Bolsonaro turned to the Prosecutor General’s office to investigate top judge Alexandre de Moraes for abuse of power on Wednesday in response to de Moraes ordering violent raids against comedians, journalists, and Youtubers over alleged dissemination of “fake news.”
Socialist Brazilian ex-president and current presidential frontrunner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is planning to marry his third wife-to-be on May 18 in an “ostentatious” nine-hour bash featuring high-end wines, a buffet with 11 types of cuisines, and a star-studded guest list.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro declared “war” on government oil company Petrobras during a live broadcast online on Thursday evening over what he called “absurd” profits that were tantamount to the “rape” of the Brazilian people.
A years-long feud between Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and American actor Leonardo DiCaprio continued this week with the president suggesting that DiCaprio’s environmental activism was disingenuous, given his frequent use of private jets and luxury yachts.
Time Magazine revealed Brazil’s socialist former president, and current presidential frontrunner, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as its cover star on Wednesday, publishing a glowing interview profile branding Lula a “white knight” saving Brazil from incumbent conservative Jair Bolsonaro.
Brazilian ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a socialist running for president again this year after his judicial appointees overturned a 25-year prison sentence for corruption, used a campaign rally this weekend to promote the creation of a pan-American currency.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro traded barbs with actor Leonardo DiCaprio on Friday after DiCaprio urged young Brazilians to vote for a “healthy planet,” implicitly suggesting they vote against the incumbent president in the October general election. Bolsonaro retaliated by dismissing DiCaprio as a tool of “crooks who serve foreign special interests.”
Conservatives flooded the streets of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Sunday for rallies in defense of free speech and family values and supporting President Jair Bolsonaro for re-election this year, far outpacing the small group of socialists gathered in Sao Paulo for an event marking May Day.
The state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, documented an 18-percent drop in homicides in the first three months of 2022 compared to the same timeframe a year ago, reports revealed Wednesday, resulting in the lowest numbers since 1991.
Conservatives in Brazil have announced a large rally for free speech and individual liberty in Sao Paulo scheduled for May 1, a holiday typically celebrated by Marxists known as “International Workers’ Day.”
Brazil’s O Globo newspaper reported on Monday that leftists in the nation’s Congress are planning to seek ways to limit conservative President Jair Bolsonaro’s pardon powers after he used them to free lawmaker Daniel Silveira, who the nation’s top court sentenced to eight years in prison last week for political comments broadcast on Youtube.
President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil issued a presidential pardon late Thursday for Congressman Daniel Silveira, who the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), the nation’s top court, had sentenced to eight years in prison for criticizing the court in a YouTube video.
The Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) of Brazil, the nation’s top court, ousted a democratically elected Congressman and sentenced him to eight years and nine months in prison on Wednesday for publishing a video on YouTube criticizing the STF.
Reuters on Monday cited shipping data showing at least 24 ships filled with 678,000 tonnes of Russian fertilizer are en route to Brazil, despite heavy sanctions imposed after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February.
A Brazilian lawmaker’s information request to the military revealed the purchase of 35,000 Viagra pills and over half a million dollars’ worth of penile implants, the lawmaker said on Wednesday, demanding the Armed Forces explain the use of taxpayers’ funding for those purposes.
The Catholic bishops of the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro have urged “special attention so that climatic events do not continue to cause disasters and suffering” in a preparatory document for next October’s national elections.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) warned during a Congressional hearing on Thursday that China is moving to capitalize on a severe “economic downturn” in Latin America partially fueled by Chinese coronavirus lockdowns to expand its influence there.
Brazilian Congressman Daniel Silveira slept in his office on Wednesday night in defiance of a Supreme Tribunal Federal (STF) order that he wear an ankle monitor. Silveira was arrested last year for making a YouTube video criticizing the STF; the ankle monitor was a requirement of his tentative release.
Left-wing Brazilian liberation theologian Leonardo Boff said Wednesday that for the past nine years Pope Francis “has been receiving furious attacks from traditionalist Christians and white supremacists, almost all from the North of the world, the U.S. and Europe.”
Hundreds of people in Brazil have allegedly expressed interest in traveling to Ukraine to help the nation’s army fight its latest war against Russia, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Monday.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said he would “continue being neutral” on the issue of the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
Brazilian players for two Ukraine soccer teams posted a video asking for help from the public to get them out of Ukraine.
At least 117 people died this week in floods and landslides that swept through the historic mountain city of Petropolis north of Rio de Janeiro, the Associated Press (AP) reported Thursday.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday, praising Putin as a “friend” with “values in common” with whom he shared “solidarity.”
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro will visit Moscow on February 16 to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency reported on Wednesday.
The number of illiterate six- and seven-year-olds in Brazil surged by 66 percent from 2019 to 2021, which is a time period coinciding with prolonged school closures across Brazil due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on Tuesday.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday proposed passing laws in Brazil to “combat” communism, Latin America’s Infobae news website reported on Thursday.
Two Latin American presidents, Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil and Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, weighed in on the ongoing campaign against American podcaster Joe Rogan on Wednesday, condemning attacks on Rogan as an attempt to stifle freedom of speech and of the press.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro remains in the hospital as of Tuesday afternoon after experiencing severe abdominal pain that indicated a necessary intervention as a result of a socialist attempting to stab him to death in 2018.
As the world prepares for the departure of an especially tumultuous year in global politics, some of the world’s most influential countries are preparing for elections that may dramatically shift domestic politics and foreign policy, depending on how voters swing.
Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Luis Roberto Barroso ruled on Saturday Brazil’s federal government must require all foreign travelers to present proof of vaccination against the Chinese coronavirus before they are allowed entry into the country, Brazil’s Folha Press agency reported on
Santiago Abascal, leader of Spanish populist party VOX, met with Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro to discuss a common front against communism, saying patriots across the Atlantic should be united.
