Jair Bolsonaro

Taking a bite out of a slice of an authentic New York City pizza is seemingly a rite of passage for anyone who visits the Big Apple. Just ask Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro.

The Amazon once absorbed more carbon than it released, but it now accounts for more than 1 billion metric tons of emissions every year.

Protests against President Jair Bolsonaro have spread across Brazil a day after a Supreme Court justice authorized a criminal investigation into his response to allegations of potential corruption involving a vaccine deal

Anti-government protesters have taken to the streets in more than a score of cities across Brazil as the nation’s confirmed death toll from COVID-19 soared past half a million

Brazil, previously renowned for demonstrating leadership during health crises, has become an international pariah during the coronavirus pandemic.

Dozens of celebrities including actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Jane Fonda and Joaquin Phoenix are calling on U.S. President Joe Biden to refrain from signing any environmental agreement with his Brazilian counterpart, Jair Bolsonaro.

World leaders are looking to a new era in their relationship with the United States as they send congratulatory messages to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. A few, however, are holding back until results are official.

One outdoor live music venue in Brazil installed socially distanced boxes so that concertgoers can watch performances safely as COVID-19 takes a toll on the country.

After months in which Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro downplayed COVID-19 by flouting social distancing recommendations and masks, this week both coronavirus precautions became part of his cloistered life at the official residence in the capital, Brasilia

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says he is confident that he will swiftly recover from the new coronavirus thanks to treatment with hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug that has not been proven effective against COVID-19.

Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro announced on Tuesday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus after months of downplaying the pandemic.

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro says he has tested positive for COVID-19

Brazil’s death toll has surpassed 23,000 and any semblance of President Jair Bolsonaro’s personal responsibility has evaporated.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says he twice tested negative for the coronavirus but many, including a federal judge, are demanding he share the actual results.

Latin America’s largest nation is veering closer to becoming one of the world’s coronavirus hot spots

Even as coronavirus cases mount in Latin America’s largest nation, the Brazilian president has staked out the most deliberately dismissive position of any major world leader

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has tested negative for the new coronavirus, according to a post on his official Facebook profile

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has called young Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg a “brat” after she expressed concern about the slayings of indigenous Brazilians in the Amazon. Bolsonaro questioned the coverage news media have given to the 16-year-old, who earlier tweeted a link to a story about the murder of two indigenous people in Brazil’s Maranhao state. In his...

Without offering proof, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday said actor Leonardo DiCaprio had funded nonprofit groups that he claimed are partly responsible for fires in the Amazon this year. Bolsonaro’s remarks about the American actor were part of a wider government campaign against environmental nonprofit groups operating in Brazil. DiCaprio’s environmental organization Earth Alliance has pledged $5 million to...

Pope Francis urged bishops on Sunday to boldly shake up the status quo as they chart ways to better care for the Amazon and its indigenous people amid threats from forest fires, development and what he called ideological “ashes of fear.” Francis opened a three-week meeting on preserving the rainforest and ministering to its native people as he fended off...