Former Brazil military chiefs implicate Bolsonaro in coup conspiracy
By Lisandra Paraguassu and Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) – The former commanders of Brazil’s Army and Air Force told police investigators that President Jair Bolsonaro summoned them twice to meetings to discuss…
Brazil institutions ready to confront Bolsonaro if he contests election result
By Anthony Boadle and Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) – As President Jair Bolsonaro lays the groundwork to contest a potential defeat in an October election, Brazil’s courts, congressional leadership, business groups and…
Lula’s lead over Bolsonaro edges higher ahead of Brazil election – Datafolha poll
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Brazil’s presidential hopeful Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leads incumbent Jair Bolsonaro by 12 points, a Thursday poll showed, while the far-right leader seeking reelection has lost the…
Lula’s lead over Bolsonaro slips 2 points for Brazil election -poll
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s lead over incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro has narrowed to 8 percentage points from 10 ahead of the October election, a…
Attempted Kirchner assassination prompts Bolsonaro, Lula security re-think
By Ricardo Brito, Lisandra Paraguassu and Steven Grattan BRASILIA (Reuters) – The attempted assassination of Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner by a Brazilian has forced Brazil’s main presidential candidates to…
Lula retains lead over Bolsonaro in Brazil’s election – poll
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has retained his strong lead over incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro ahead of the country’s October election, a Genial/Quaest poll released…
Lula’s advantage over Bolsonaro unchanged for Oct election
(Reuters) -Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva maintains a 12-percentage-point lead over far-right incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro ahead of the October election, according to a new poll published on Monday. The survey…
Bolsonaro and Lula face off in Brazil presidential debate
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s main presidential candidates took their gloves off on Sunday and laid into each other in the first presidential debate for the October general election with accusations of…
Brazil’s Bolsonaro ‘not afraid to lose’ election, does not seek a coup
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday denied that he has any intention of carrying out a coup if he loses October’s election, adding that he rejects a constitutional…
Exclusive-Brazil federal police warned against Bolsonaro arms agenda, documents show
By Gabriel Stargardter RIO DE JANEIRO – As President Jair Bolsonaro has aggressively sought to boost gun ownership in Brazil, documents obtained by Reuters reveal one key source of resistance to his…
Brazil Congress approves major spending bill, lifting Bolsonaro re-election hopes
BRASILIA – Brazil’s Congress on Wednesday approved a major spending package that President Jair Bolsonaro is banking on to lift his flagging re-election hopes, despite expectations it will fan double-digit inflation and…
Brazil indigenous defender, sidelined under Bolsonaro, gave life for ‘abandoned’ tribes
By Jake Spring and Anthony Boadle ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil – Six tribes from Brazil’s remote Javari Valley packed into an assembly hall on June 11 to lament the disappearance of Bruno…
Shares in Brazil airlines rise as Bolsonaro vetoes free checked bags
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has vetoed a Congress-passed measure that would block airlines from charging for checked baggage on their flights, his office said on Wednesday, sending shares in…
Analysis-Brazil likely to waive over $20 billion in tax revenue as Bolsonaro tries to spur economy
By Bernardo Caram BRASILIA – Tax cuts are likely to cost over 110 billion reais ($21.5 billion) in Brazilian tax revenue this year, as President Jair Bolsonaro tries to ease inflation and…
Brazil’s Bolsonaro casts doubt on Biden’s 2020 election win ahead of meeting him
SAO PAULO – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday cast doubt on the 2020 election victory of U.S. President Joe Biden, just two days before they are due to meet for the…
Elon Musk to meet with Brazil’s Bolsonaro, says report
SAO PAULO – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and business magnate Elon Musk are scheduled to meet in Sao Paulo on Friday, Brazilian daily O Globo reported late Thursday. The two will discuss…
Brazil’s Petrobras posts $9 billion profit as Bolsonaro rails against company
By Gram Slattery and Roberto Samora RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil’s Petrobras posted a first-quarter net income that beat forecasts on Thursday, just minutes after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro railed against the…
Brazil’s Bolsonaro, Lula competing rallies a preview of presidential campaign
By Eduardo Simões and Lisandra Paraguassu SAO PAULO – Brazilian right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro and his main rival, former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, staged competing rallies on Sunday that…
Any Bolsonaro attempt to undermine Brazil election should be met with sanctions -ex U.S. diplomat
RIO DE JANEIRO – Washington should make it clear to the “messianic” Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro that any effort to undermine his country’s elections would trigger multilateral sanctions, a newly retired U.S.…
Bolsonaro says demonstrators expected to show support for Constitution
SAO PAULO – Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro said on Saturday that demonstrations scheduled for Sunday are not meant as protest, but to show “the desire that everyone abides by the Constitution.” The…
Bolsonaro holds off on fresh industrial tax cut pending court review -sources
BRASILIA – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has decided against an additional cut in the IPI industrial tax because of questions about the legality of the measure, according to two sources from the…
Brazil’s Bolsonaro hints at potential replacement of Petrobras CEO
– There is a possibility of replacing Petrobras’ chief executive, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday, adding further pressure to the state-run oil company’s pricing policy. In an interview with regional…
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