Brazil’s Bolsonaro targets indigenous groups, LGBTQ rights on 1st day as president
Newly installed President Jair Bolsonaro issued executive orders on Brazil's indigenous groups, descendants of slaves and the LGBT community in the first hours of his administration.
Opinion: WhatsApp skewed Brazilian election, showing social media’s danger to democracy
Brazil’s WhatsApp election scandal should be a wake-up call particularly for other developing world democracies.
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November 3, 2018 – PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode
On this edition for Saturday, Nov. 3, one week after 11 people were shot to death in a Pittsburgh synagogue, an interfaith call for unity and discussing how Brazil’s far-right president-elect will lead the country. Later, populism reigns in Hungary…
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Bolsonaro’s victory in Brazil is another big win for populism
With a history of racist, homophobic and misogynistic remarks, far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro was elected president last Sunday of Latin America’s biggest country, campaigning as an antidote to a political class embroiled in corruption scandals. The victory was the latest…
President-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s anti-establishment speeches and populist style drew support among those seeking strong leadership, but stoked fears among others that he was putting Brazil’s democracy in danger.
Jair Bolsonaro's victory moved Brazil, the world's fourth-largest democracy, sharply to the right after four consecutive elections in which candidates from the left-leaning Workers' Party won.
Three Brazilian justices on Monday criticized the son of presidential front-runner Jair Bolsonaro for saying that the country's top court could be closed if it tried to remove his father from the presidency. The son tweeted that his statements were…
In our news wrap Monday, Hurricane Michael is heading toward the Florida Panhandle, and is expected to make landfall midweek. Forecasters say it could become a major hurricane with winds topping 110 miles an hour. Also, President Trump predicted the…
Far-right, former army captain Jair Bolsonaro, who expresses nostalgia for Brazil’s military dictatorship, won the first round of its presidential election by a large margin Sunday, but fell just short of getting enough votes to avoid a second-round runoff against…
