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Jair Bolsonaro says Brazil rainforest reserve may be opened to mining
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday the country could open a vast reserve in the Amazon rainforest to mining, a move that his predecessor attempted before backtracking due to an international outcry by environmentalists. The National Reserve of Copper and Associates (Renca) occupies roughly ...
Raul Castro warns Cubans to brace for worsening shortages due to Trump policies
Communist Party leader Raul Castro warned Cubans on Wednesday that they should brace for worsening shortages due to Trump administration policies, but said the island won't return to the extreme deprivation of the post-Soviet period. In his first speech to the nation in more than ...
Activists fear worst as Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro eyes new appointed body to steer environment policy
The administration of President Jair Bolsonaro is considering a dramatic change in the council that oversees Brazil's environmental policy, replacing a broad-based panel of independent voices with a small group of political appointees, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. Activists say they fear ...
Brazil police kill 11 heavily armed suspects out of 25 who tried to blow up two banks' ATMs
Police in Sao Paulo state shot and killed 11 assailants who were preparing to blow up automated bank teller machines simultaneously at two branches early on Thursday, authorities said. Sao Paulo state's Public Security Secretariat said in a statement that about 25 suspects were involved ...
Thousands in Brazil protest 55th anniversary of military coup that Bolsonaro praised
Several thousand protesters chanting "dictatorship never again" took to the streets of Brazil's biggest cities Sunday on the 55th anniversary of the coup that established more than two decades of military rule. Some 2,000 people rallied in Rio de Janeiro's central Cinelandia plaza, while in ...
The Israeli prime minister warmly received far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday, touting newfound amity between the two countries. Benjamin Netanyahu's red-carpet welcome for Bolsonaro comes days ahead of a tough re-election bid for the long-time Israeli prime minister on April 9. During his first ...
Brazil to privatize some of its most famous national parks starting this year
Brazil aims to begin privatizing the management of its national parks this year, including some of its most famous natural tourist sites, the country's Environment Minister Ricardo Salles said on Wednesday. The government aims to privatize as many as possible, he said. Salles listed Foz do ...
Bolsonaro's call to commemorate Brazil's 1964 military coup causes uproar
Far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's call to commemorate the anniversary of Brazil's 1964 military coup is causing discomfort in Latin America's largest nation, with social groups organizing protests and the federal prosecutors' office saying the call "deserves social and political repudiation." Bolsonaro, a former army captain ...
Jair Bolsonaro says Brazil owes world nothing on environment
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Saturday said his country "does not owe the world anything" when it comes to the environment. The far-right leader, who is critical of the Paris climate change accord, was speaking in Chile following Friday's launch of the Forum for the ...
Gay lawmaker who fled Brazil amid death threats: Bolsonaro 'turned me into a pariah'
Brazil's first openly gay lawmaker, Jean Wyllys, who fled his country over mounting death threats after the election of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, fears he won't be returning home anytime soon. In an interview with AFP in Paris, the 45-year-old politician and LGBT activist, who ...
'Trump of the Tropics': Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro and U.S. president declare special relationship
President Donald Trump heaped praise Tuesday on right-wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro — and received plenty back — in announcing a special relationship that he said could even see the Latin American country join NATO. At a joint news conference on the sun-soaked Rose Garden ...
Brazil's Bolsonaro backs Trump wall, derides U.S.-bound immigrants as bent on doing harm
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro endorsed U.S. President Donald Trump's immigration agenda on the eve of their first meeting at the White House, saying he supports a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and that most immigrants to the United States wish to do harm. Bolsonaro, a ...
