The Latest Breaking News from Jair Bolsonaro

Explainer-Causes and consequences of Amazon fires and deforestation

Brazil vowed last year to halt deforestation by 2030, yet the number of fires burning in the country's Amazon rainforest hit a 15-year high in June. Burning season began last month and the rate of forest clearing remains high.

Reuters · Aug 10, 2022

Brazil's top prosecutor plays down risk of contested election

President Jair Bolsonaro is unlikely to contest the outcome of October's election, Brazil's top public prosecutor said on Tuesday, playing down fears of business leaders, diplomats and politicians about the president's anti-democratic rhetoric.

Reuters · Aug 9, 2022

Brazilians fear return to dictatorship as ‘deranged’ Bolsonaro trails in polls

Hundreds of thousands sign pro-democracy manifesto amid fears the president will promote Trump-style insurrection against democracy

The Guardian - US · Aug 9, 2022

Problematic or perilous: Brazil's environmental choice

Brazilians go to the polls in October, and they´ll have a choice between reelecting Jair Bolsonaro, or bringing back former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

The Independent UK · Aug 7, 2022

Brazil’s Lula receives endorsement of moderate candidate

Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, currently bidding to return to the job he held between 2003-2010, received on Thursday the endorsement of moderate candidate André Janones

The Independent UK · Aug 4, 2022

Analysis-Bolsonaro risks blowback from joint military parade and campaign rally

Efforts by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to turn an Independence Day military parade into a political event for his re-election campaign has become a test of the armed forces' loyalty, retired generals and analysts said.

Reuters · Aug 4, 2022

Republicans are embracing one of the world’s worst leaders

Despite the detestable recent comments of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who said “We do not want to become peoples(sic) of mixed-race” or join in Western Europe’s “mixed-race world,” CPAC will all too happily host him.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 3, 2022

Lula's advantage over Bolsonaro in Brazil's October elections narrows -poll

Brazilian leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva maintains a lead against incumbent right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro ahead of October's presidential election but is losing the strong lead he had in January, a Genial/Quaest poll released on Wednesday showed.

Reuters · Aug 3, 2022

Brazil ‘failing to fully investigate’ Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira murders

Rights groups accuse Brazilian government of not employing sufficient resources to examine case

The Guardian - UK · Aug 2, 2022

Armed militias in Brazil hold enormous sway over fate of Amazon – and the global climate

The future of the environmental agenda is on a collision course with Brazil’s violent past, as the murders of Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips have recently illustrated.

The Conversation · Aug 1, 2022