Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

Cult at Igreja Universal in São Paulo

How Gospel News Is Increasingly Shaping What Millions of Brazilians Think and Do

The new Brazilian government of Jair Bolsonaro has shocked the liberal world with its ...

Rio's samba school Unidos da Tijuca - Tomaz Silva/ABr

Rio’s Carnaval Celebrates Life and Blasts New President

Rio de Janeiro’s world-famous Carnaval celebrations officially began on Friday in the first festival ...

Aerial picture of uncontacted Amazonian tribe - FUNAI

Brazil Accuses American Missionary of Exposing Indians to Death

An American missionary operating in Brazil has exposed an isolated indigenous tribe to disease ...

Bolsonaro's at inauguration ceremony with Dragões da Independência

President Bolsonaro: The Perfect Storm That Might Steal Away Brazil’s Democratic Future

This week’s inauguration of Brazil’s far-right president-elect Jair Bolsonaro has dominated political analysis worldwide. ...

Brazil's incoming president Jair Bolsonaro has called Cuban doctors 'slave labor' because their government keeps about 75 percent of their pay

For Cuban Doctors in Brazil a Choice Between Being a Slave or a Refugee

Isabela, one of more than 8,000 Cuban health workers in Brazil, saw two options ...

Ibama official looking at tree felled illegally. Photo: Ibama

Brazil Does a U-turn on Environmental Policy and Sides with Big Farmers

Environmental issues have figured prominently in Brazil as of late, and the Brazilian Forest ...

Brazilian President-elect Jair Messias Bolsonaro

Brazil’s President-elect Is No Trump. He Was Even a Hugo Chávez Admirer

Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s president-elect, is sometimes referred to as the Brazilian Trump (Economist, 2017), ...

Brazilian president, general Ernesto Geisel, parades in an open car in Brasília, in 1968

Brazil Military Afraid Closeness to President-elect Bolsonaro Might Hurt Its Reputation

Brazilian President-elect Jair Messias Bolsonaro is a former paratrooper; his vice president, Hamilton Mourão, ...