Brazil President Bolsonaro tests positive for coronavirus

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday he tested positive for the novel coronavirus, adding in a television interview that he was in good health despite running a fever. The right-wing populist, who has played down the severity of the virus which he has called a “little flu,” took the test on Monday after... Read More

Threat of Brazil military coup unfounded, retired generals say

Calls for Brazil’s military to close Congress and the Supreme Court have screamed from banners at marches attended by President Jair Bolsonaro in recent weeks, but retired generals and close observers of the armed forces call it empty talk. A defender of Brazil’s 1964 military coup and the two decades of dictatorship that followed,... Read More

As Brazil Covid-19 cases pass 500,000 mark, Bolsonaro rallies, US sends unproven drug

President Jair Bolsonaro, who opposes coronavirus lockdown measures imposed by Brazilian cities and states, rallied with his supporters Sunday, as Washington said it had sent two million doses of a controversial unproven Covid-19 drug. Brazil is Latin America’s hotspot for the deadly pandemic, with more than 500,000 cases and a death toll of nearly 28,000, the... Read More

Jair Bolsonaro should ‘shut up’ and resign over coronavirus response, Brazilian mayor says

The mayor of a Brazilian city that has been badly hit by the coronavirus has rounded on Jair Bolsonaro, saying the President is “co-responsible” for the nation’s vast death count. Arthur Virgilio Neto, the mayor of Manaus — a city of 2 million people nestled in the heart of the Amazon that has been stricken by Covid-19... Read More