BRASILIA, October 21 (Reuters): Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday that his government will not buy China's Sinovac vaccine against COVID-19, one day after the health minister said
BRASILIA, September 22 (Reuters) - Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro rejected international criticism on Tuesday of his government's environmental policies and his handling of the world's second-mos
BRASILIA, September 20 (Reuters): Brazil's former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, barred from elected office due to corruption convictions, said he is open to backing any candidate who can
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 ma
BRASILIA, August 12 (Reuters): 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 ow
BRASILIA, July 31 (Reuters): Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday he was taking antibiotics for an infection that left him feeling weak, chuckling in an online video about "mold" i
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): When the head of an influential government body tasked with preserving Brazil's Black culture called the country's anti-racism movement &q
BRASILIA, July 22 (Reuters): Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has had another positive result for the novel coronavirus in the third test he has taken since falling ill on July 7, a secretariat of the Co
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 12 (Reuters) - Michelle Bolsonaro, the wife of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro who is sick with the new coronavirus, said on Saturday that she and her two daughters had tested negative f
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 9 (Reuters): The Brazilian Press Association on Thursday filed a criminal complaint to the Supreme Court against President Jair Bolsonaro, after he took off his mask in a televised int
BRASILIA, June 22 (Reuters): Calls for Brazil's military to close Congress and the Supreme Court have screamed from banners at marches attended by President Jair Bolsonaro in recent weeks, but retired
BRASILIA, June 5 (Reuters): One of the world's worst coronavirus outbreaks, a paralyzed economy sending investors fleeing for the exit, and accusations that he has undermined Brazil's young democra
BRASILIA, June 1 (Reuters): Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro joined a rally on Sunday on horseback as supporters urged the closing of the Supreme Court for investigating the right-wing leader, as one of
BRASILIA, May 28 (Reuters): Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro complained on Thursday that a Supreme Court investigation into fake news was aimed at silencing the social media that got him elected and s
Indigenous people from the Shanenawa tribe use indigenous medicine during a festival to celebrate nature and ask for an end to the burning of the Amazon, in the indigenous village of Morada Nova near Feijo, Acr
Huge fires are raging across multiple regions of the Amazon Basin. (Guaira Maia/ISA)
Danilo Ignacio de Urzedo, University of Sydney
Record fires are raging in Brazil’s Amazon
Indigenous people from the Mura tribe show a deforested area in unmarked indigenous lands inside the Amazon rainforest near Humaita, Amazonas State, Brazil August 20, 2019. Picture taken August 20, 2019. (REUTE
FILE PHOTO: Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Humaita, Amazonas State, Brazil, Brazil August 17, 2019. Picture Taken on August 17. (REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelin
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro attends the Brazilian Steel Conference in Brasilia, Brazil on August 21. (REUTERS/Adriano Machado)
Fires in the Amazon have surged 83% so far this y