Jair Bolsonaro

Brazil's calamitous COVID news gets uglier, politically and medically, with a bottom ranking for pandemic handling and a report that critics are being prosecuted.

COMMENTARY Few regions need an effective COVID vaccine campaign more urgently than Latin America. So far, in Brazil and elsewhere, that's not happening.

A couple months ago Brazil's coronavirus curve began to flatten. But it's spiking again — just as Brazilians are being far less vigilant than before.

COMMENTARY It's right for expats to urge a president to sanction repressive regimes. But it's dangerous for him to be their petty partisan surrogate back home.

COMMENTARY Our hemisphere has one-eighth of the world's population but half the world's COVID cases and deaths. Its two most important leaders led the way.

Most notably, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro had previously tested positive.

After Joe Biden proposes "economic consequences" for Brazil's Amazon destruction, Jair Bolsonaro bashes Biden for "coward threats."

"She is in a state of good health and will follow all established protocols," the Planalto Palace says. The news comes as Brazil — with record high infection rates — lifts its air travel ban.

The complaint to the International Criminal Court comes as the country registers more than 87,000 deaths and 2.4 million confirmed cases.

Health experts call Latin America and the Caribbean the world’s new hotspot for COVID-19 infection. And the pandemic isn’t sparing the region’s…

COMMENTARYWhen Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro confirmed this week he’d tested positive for COVID-19 – hardly stunning news given his reckless…

After months of dismissing the COVID-19 pandemic as a “hoax,” Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has tested positive for…the novel coronavirus. At the…