Jair Bolsonaro

Destruction of the world’s largest rainforest in 2020 rose 9.5 percent from a year earlier according to government data.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has made a show of his admiration for and close ties to US President Donald Trump.

Traditional parties score the most votes in Brazil’s two most populous cities in municipal elections.

Brazilians are clearing the Amazon faster amid Jair Bolsonaro’s weakened environmental enforcement.

Government agency records 17,326 hot spots in the rainforest in October, more than double the number of fires last year.

The vice president’s comments come a week after Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said Brazilians are not ‘guinea pigs’.

President Jair Bolsonaro took to social media to slam the Chinese-made vaccine his health ministry had agreed to buy.

Under the so-called ‘Car Wash’ operation dozens of company executives and politicians were jailed for taking bribes.

US Democratic presidential candidate criticised deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in the first debate with Trump.

Brazilian stocks and currency fell, while interest rates futures rose as investors viewed it as an accounting gimmick.

The Parakana people have for decades been fighting to protect their land from illegal miners, loggers and farmers.

Brazil’s pandemic response has been to spend heavily while Mexico has done the opposite and is in a deep slump.

Data from Brazil’s space agency suggests fires in the Amazon are on track for a seven percent increase over last year.

Company follows court order to block 12 accounts of Brazil president’s supporters accused of running fake news network.