Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro

South America 01/13/22, 16:06

Having reached more than one million followers on Telegram, again the mainstream media launched a campaign to discredit Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, accusing him of promoting fake news to manipulate voters and predicting that he will try to do again what he did in 2018: win elections by campaigning on ...

New York 09/22/21, 18:04

Foreign delegates to an intergovernmental organization were forced to eat on a New York City street due to their vaccination status on Sept. 21. A photo went viral on the internet, showing Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro and company eating pizza slices and drinking Coca-Cola on a busy sidewalk. The United Nations General ...

America 07/15/21, 04:13

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday, July 14, after 10 consecutive days of chronic hiccups.  His office said he was hospitalized after suffering from a stomach ache on Tuesday night at the Armed Forces Hospital in the capital of Brasilia. Doctors initially conducted tests to clarify ...

U.S. 12/31/20, 18:32

Latin American leaders and congress members strongly criticized the legalization of abortion in Argentina. The controversial law's approval, sanctioned on Wednesday morning by the National Congress, allows free access to abortion until the 14th week of gestation. The regulation also allows minors to have abortions. Minors under 13 years of age may ...

South America 12/11/20, 19:02

The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, again defended the medicine hydroxychloroquine as a cure for COVID-19 disease, also called the CCP Virus. During a speech in Porto Alegre on Dec. 10, the president stressed that the drug is useful as an "early treatment." According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the drug ...

South America 11/10/20, 16:20

Brazilian health authorities have suspended the phase 3 clinical trial of a vaccine against the CCP Virus, arguing a “serious adverse event.” The vaccine involved is called CoronaVac and belongs to a Chinese origin laboratory called Sinovac Biotech. According to Reuters, the suspension occurred after the death of a trial volunteer. President ...

South America 09/30/20, 18:54

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro used his Twitter account Wednesday, to express his displeasure at comments made by Democratic candidate for president Joe Biden during the presidential debate with President Trump during Tuesday's Sept. 29 presidential debate. Biden appeared to threaten the Brazilian government with significant economic consequences if it did not ...

South America 09/13/19, 17:24

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met his visiting Brazilian counterpart, Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo, at the State Department in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Speaking at the press conference, the two men affirmed the strategic partnerships between the United States and Brazil. "When President Trump and President Bolsonaro met at the White House ...

South America 07/05/19, 12:34

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro once again said he would like U.S. President Donald Trump to visit South America to discuss the Venezuelan crisis with the presidents of the region. On Wednesday night, July 3, during an event celebrating U.S. Independence Day at the embassy in Brasilia, Bolsonaro said he extended an ...