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Jair Bolsonaro's Brazil

At the U.N., Jair Bolsonaro Presents a Surreal Defense of His Amazon Policies

Jon Lee Anderson
September 24, 2019


Brazilian indigenous leaders denounce Bolsonaro before UN speech
  • Open letter decries ‘colonialist and ethnocidal policies’
  • President expected to attack left and foreign critics in New York

 
@AlbertC

It would be great to have Putin's Russia and Duterte's Philippines threads as well. Both have very similar personalities and ideologies to Bolsonaro and Trump.

Oh, and put those four megalomaniac leaders on Venus for the sake of future generations.

If particular news events come up, I could look into setting them up. Otherwise, others are free to create them too.
 
‘War for survival’: Brazil’s Amazon tribes despair as land raids surge under Bolsonaro

Activists say onslaught has intensified as illegal loggers and land-grabbers take the president’s verbal offensive against indigenous communities as a green light to act

Tom Phillips in Aldeia Nova, Rondônia state.

 
It's too bad that the Brazilian public overreacted to the scandals of Michel Temer's centrist regime.

Seems like a blessing now between Bolsonaro's Brazil, and the corrupt regimes of Lula and Dilma preceding it.
 
Brazil’s uncontacted tribes face 'genocide' under Bolsonaro, experts warn

Letter says groups are in danger amid Jair Bolsonaro’s efforts to overturn existing policies to protect indigenous people

 
Amazon fires: What's the latest in Brazil?

By Roland HughesBBC News
12 October 2019

Dark clouds of smoke smothered cities in Brazil as parts of the Amazon burned at a rate not seen in years, and the world responded with outrage.

For a few weeks in August, the world's eyes were fixed on Brazil and its government's response. But what is the latest with the fires now, almost two months on? And why might the problem be worse than it first appeared?

 
Brazilians rally to clean beaches amid outrage at Bolsonaro's oil spill inaction
  • Mystery surrounds origin of pollution in north-east
  • President suggests ‘criminal act’ aims to scupper rights tender
Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Tue 22 Oct 2019 10.00 BST Last modified on Tue 22 Oct 2019 10.42 BST

 
Brazilians rally to clean beaches amid outrage at Bolsonaro's oil spill inaction
  • Mystery surrounds origin of pollution in north-east
  • President suggests ‘criminal act’ aims to scupper rights tender
Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro

Tue 22 Oct 2019 10.00 BST Last modified on Tue 22 Oct 2019 10.42 BST

Bolsonaro really wants to wage war against Mother Nature.
 
Future forecast looks like it's going to get even worse:

Amazon rainforest 'close to irreversible tipping point'

Forecast suggests rainforest could stop producing enough rain to sustain itself by 2021

Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Wed 23 Oct 2019 17.13 BST

 
Bolsonaro says he's fighting corruption. So why is he surrounded by scandal?

David Miranda

Brazil’s president and his family are subsumed by multiple corruption scandals suggesting serious criminality

Mon 28 Oct 2019 10.00 GMT Last modified on Mon 28 Oct 2019 10.02 GMT

 
WhatsApp fake news during Brazil election ‘favoured Bolsonaro’

Analysis suggests vast majority of viral messages with false information were rightwing

Daniel Avelar
Wed 30 Oct 2019 16.00 GMT

 

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