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White House imposes coronavirus travel ban on Brazil
May 25, 2020 01:14US President Donald Trump on Sunday further limited travel from the world’s coronavirus hotspots by denying entry to foreigners coming from Brazil, which is second to the US in the number of confirmed cases.
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Brazilian indigenous peoples confront double threat of COVID-19 and Bolsonaro’s policies
May 19, 2020 04:08After six days of fighting for his life in an intensive care unit in a Amazonas state hospital, a 15-year-old Yanomami teenage boy died in April 9 from complications caused by the novel coronavirus. The boy’s death sounded the alarm for Brazil’s Indigenous peoples who now face the fear of the virus alongside the stress of increasing criminal activities by land grabbers, illegal loggers, gold diggers, poachers, drug traffickers, hitmen and questionable “guests” like tourists in their lands.
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Brazil’s Lula warns virus could cause ‘genocide’ under Bolsonaro
May 15, 2020 08:19Former Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has called for the impeachment of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, warning that his fierce opposition toward coronavirus restrictions could cause “genocide” in the country.
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Brazil passes France in recorded coronavirus cases to become world’s 6th country
May 14, 2020 07:57Brazil registered a record number of new cases of the new coronavirus on Wednesday, surpassing France’s tally to become the sixth worst-hit country, as the disease sends the economy toward its worst year since at least 1900.
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Brazil’s Supreme Court blocks President Bolsonaro’s move to expel Venezuelan diplomats
May 03, 2020 07:55A Supreme Court judge in Brazil has suspended an order issued by the government of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to expel Venezuelan diplomats over the deterioration of political ties between the two neighbors.
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Brazil's Bolsonaro joins demo against stay-at-home orders
Apr 20, 2020 03:22Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday joined hundreds of demonstrators outside army headquarters in the capital Brasilia protesting stay-at-home orders issued by state governors.
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Bolsonaro fires Brazil's popular health minister after virus clash
Apr 17, 2020 09:59Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has sparked protests and anger by sacking his popular health minister, Luiz Henrique Mandetta, after the two clashed over Bolsonaro’s highly controversial response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Tropical Trump snubbed by Facebook, Instagram, attacked by Brazilian opposition
Mar 31, 2020 10:48In extraordinary moves, social media platforms Facebook and Instagram have removed videos posted by Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro for spreading misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, and the country’s opposition has demanded that he resign over his response to the outbreak.
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Brazil's right-wing recalls diplomats, officials from Venezuela
Mar 06, 2020 09:22In a move to further downgrade relations with Venezuela, Brazil’s far-right government of President Jair Bolsonaro has begun pulling out all its diplomats from Caracas, while calling on President Nicolas Maduro to recall his country’s representatives from Brasilia.
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Bolsonaro's Amazon 'dream' is indigenous 'nightmare'
Feb 07, 2020 08:12Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, has unveiled a sweeping plan for the Amazon rainforest that would open indigenous lands to mining -- a "dream" for the far-right leader, but a "nightmare" for environmentalists and tribal leaders.