October 2020 - Emergency Agenda

Type of power
Formal power

Branch
Legislative

Power Level
Federal

PARLIAMENT APPROVES LAW CREATING NATIONAL DATABASE OF PERSONAL DATA FROM PEOPLE CONVICTED OF RAPE, INCLUDING DATA SUCH AS BIOMETRICS, GENETICS AND ADDRESSES

Theme(s)
Data protection, Penal and socioeducational system, Public security

Authoritarian Inventory measures
Legitimation of violence and vigilantism

Read more about it here – in Portuguese [1] [find out here]

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Read more about it here – in Portuguese [1] [find out here]. The president paraphrased the slogan ‘God, fatherland and family’, from ‘Ação Integralista’, a Brazilian fascist movement operating mainly in the 1930s; read more about it here [2]

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Read more about the attacks on Brazilian environment protection system here [1] and about this episode, which is still on the agenda in 2021 here [2] and in Portuguese here [find out here]

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Read more about the nomination here – in Portuguese [1] [find out here]. The indication comes one day after the Institute released data indicating the worst fire in a decade at the Amazon Forest; read more about it here [2]

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Read more about the nomination here [1] and about the president’s pledge here [2]

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PARLIAMENT APPROVES LAW CREATING NATIONAL DATABASE OF PERSONAL DATA FROM PEOPLE CONVICTED OF RAPE, INCLUDING DATA SUCH AS BIOMETRICS, GENETICS AND ADDRESSES

AT AN EVENT IN THE STATE OF PERNAMBUCO, BOLSONARO SUGGESTS VOTING IN CANDIDATES THAT HAVE ‘GOD IN THEIR HEARTS’ IN THE LOCAL ELECTIONS AND PARAPHRASES SLOGAN USED BY A BRAZILIAN FASCIST GROUP FROM THE 1930S

ENVIRONMENT MINISTER ISSUES ORDINANCE TO CONSIDER A MERGE OF THE INSTITUTE FOR BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION (‘ICMBIO’) WITH THE INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENT AND RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCES (‘IBAMA’)

GOVERNMENT TOOK 13 MONTHS TO APPOINT NEW DIRECTOR TO THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH (‘INPE’), WHICH IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MONITORING DEFORESTATION AND FIRES IN THE AMAZON RAINFOREST

BOLSONARO PROMISES TO APPOINT A PASTOR FOR THE FEDERAL SUPREME COURT (‘STF’) NEXT YEAR, AFTER HIS FIRST NOMINATION TO THE COURT FRUSTRATED EVANGELICAL MEMBERS OF HIS BASE

FEDERAL PUBLIC DEFENDER SUES COMPANY FOR HIRING TRAINEES ON THE BASIS OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONS ONLY

EDUCATION MINISTER SAYS BRAZIL HAS ‘TOO MANY’ UNIVERSITIES, AT EVANGELICAL EVENT

AFTER REQUEST OF THE MINISTRY OF ECONOMY, CONGRESS APPORVES BUDGET CUT OF 600 MILLION REAIS TO SCIENCE

ADMINISTRATION OF THE BRAZILIAN NATIONAL IMMUNIZATION PROGRAM (‘PNI’) FALLS VACANT FOR 3 MONTHS AMID PANDEMIC

BOLSONARO SUGGEST CO-OPTION OF THE SUPREME COURT IF REELECTED IN 2022 AND DISCREDITS JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE OF MINISTERS APPOINTED BY HIM

MINISTRY OF ECONOMY REQUIRES WITHDRAWAL OF MORE THAN 90% OF RESOURCES FOR THE MINISTRY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION, AND THE REQUEST IS APPROVED BY THE NATIONAL CONGRESS

UP TO OCTOBER 2020, THE INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENT AND RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCES (‘IBAMA’) SPENT LESS THAN 40% OF ITS BUDGET ON MONITORING AND FIGHTING FOREST FIRES AND DEFORESTATION

BOLSONARO CLAIMS THAT ANTI-CORRUPTION OPERATION ‘CAR WASH’ HAS ENDED BECAUSE THERE IS NO MORE CORRUPTION IN BRAZIL

NATIONAL HEALTH REGULATORY AGENCY (‘ANVISA’) ALLOWS THE USE OF REMAINING STOCKS OF FORBIDEN PESTICIDE LINKED TO NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES AND DEATH OF FARMERS

VICE-PRESIDENT PRAISES TORTURER FROM THE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP AND SAYS HE RESPECTED HUMAN RIGHTS

MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE ADVOCATES CATTLE FARMING AS A MEASURE FOR CONTAINING FIRES AT THE ‘PANTANAL’ WETLANDS

BOLSONARO CELEBRATES CHE GUEVARA’S DEATH AND CLAIMS HE WAS AN INSPIRATION TO ‘OUTCASTS AND LEFTIST SCUM’

MINISTER OF THE ENVIRONMENT APPOINTS MILITARY OFFICER WITH NO TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS AS NEW SUPERINTENDENT TO THE INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENT AND RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCES (‘IBAMA’) IN THE STATE OF CEARÁ

COURT OF LAW OF THE STATE OF SÃO PAULO (‘TJ-SP’) DENIES THE PRESS ACCESS TO PUBLIC DATA ON DEATHS REGISTERED BY THE POLICE; SUPERIOR COURT OF JUSTICE (‘STJ’) REVERTS THE DECISION CALLING IT ‘PRIOR RESTRAINT’

ENVIRONMENT MINISTER UNDERSTATES GOVERNMENT’S ROLE IN FIGHTING FOREST FIRES WHILE DEFENDING CATTLE FARMING AS A MEANS TO FIGHT FIRES, A STRATEGY PROVEN TO BE INEFFECTIVE

PRESIDENT OF PUBLIC ENTITY FOR THE PROMOTION AND PRESERVATION OF BLACK CULTURE (‘FUNDAÇÃO PALMARES’) REMOVES NAMES OF BLACK PERSONALITIES LINKED TO THE POLITICAL OPPOSITION FROM ITS LIST OF HONOUR, CALLING THEM ‘BLACK ONLY WHEN IT IS CONVENIENT’

STATE-OWNED TV CHANNEL PRAISES BOLSONARO DURING A SOCCER BROADCAST

BOLSONARO WENT AGAINST MEDICAL AND HEALTH RECOMMENDATIONS AT LEAST FOUR TIMES IN THE SECOND WEEK OF OCTOBER, AMID PANDEMIC

ENVIRONMENT MINISTER USES FEDERAL ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE (‘AGU’) TO SUE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST WHICH CRITICIZED THE MINISTER’S SPEECH TO LOOSEN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION LAWS

SUPREME COURT KEEPS PUBLIC PAYMENT TO ‘VALE’, THE COMPANY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER AT THE CITY OF MARIANA, FOR DEAD POWER PLANT

BOLSONARO SAYS HE WILL KICK CORRUPT OFFICIALS FROM HIS ADMINISTRATION ON THEIR NECKS

BOLSONARO APPOINTS THREE MILITARY OFFICIALS AS DIRECTORS OF THE BRAZILIAN DATA PROTECTION AUTHORITY

FORMER HEALTH MINISTER EDUARDO PAZUELLO DEFENDS BRAZILIAN ‘EARLY TREATMENT’ COVID-19 PROTOCOL TO WHO REPRESENTATIVE

MID-LEVEL EMPLOYEE FROM PUBLIC ENTITY FOR THE PROMOTION AND PRESERVATION OF BLACK CULTURE IN BRAZIL (‘FUNDAÇÃO PALMARES’) CLAIMS THAT SLAVES LIVED ‘ALMOST LIKE ANGELS’ IN BRAZIL

POLICE OFFICERS KILL THREE BLACK YOUNG MAN DURING OPERATION IN THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO

MINISTRY OF WOMAN, FAMILY AND HUMAN RIGHTS PRESSURES INDIGENOUS PEOPLES TO REDUCE THEIR LAND AREA

NUMBER OF POLICE KILLINGS IN OPERATIONS IN BRAZIL IN 2019 IS THE HIGHEST SINCE 2013, WHEN MONITORING BEGAN

NUMBER OF FIREARMS REGISTERED IN BRAZIL INCREASES BY 120,3%

BOLSONARO INSISTS THAT VACCINATION WON’T BE COMPULSORY

PRESIDENCY CLAIMS THAT AN ANTIPARASITIC DRUG IS EFFECTIVE AGAINST COVID-19 DESPITE LACK OF SCIENTIFIC VALIDATION

BRAZIL HAS LARGEST SETBACK IN FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AMONG 161 COUNTRIES AND NOW RANKS 94TH ACCORDING TO HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION

BOLSONARO WENT AGAINST MEDICAL AND HEALTH RECOMMENDATIONS AT LEAST THREE TIMES IN THE THIRD WEEK OF OCTOBER, AMID PANDEMIC

ENVIRONMENT MINISTER APPOINTS LAWYER WITH TIES TO AGRIBUSINESS AS HEAD OF PROTECTED AREAS DEPARTMENT

BOLSONARO VETOES THE PURCHASE OF CHINESE-MADE VACCINE FROM FOUNDATION MANAGED BY THE STATE OF SÃO PAULO AND SAYS HE WON’T TALK TO THE STATE’S GOVERNOR, GOING AGAINST HIS HEALTH MINISTER STATEMENT THE PREVIOUS DAY ANNOUNCING THE PURCHASE

INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENT AND RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCES (‘IBAMA’) SUSPENDS NATIONWIDE FIREFIGHTING OPERATION DUE TO ‘EXHAUSTION OF RESOURCES

TEACHERS FROM CIVIC-MILITARY SCHOOLS REPORT PROHIBITION OF DISCUSSING RACISM, GENDER, PREVIOUS GOVERNMENTS OR CURRENT EVENTS IN THE NEWS IN CLASSROOMS

UP TO THIS DATE, THERE ARE 99 MILITARY OFFICERS IN HIGH POSITIONS IN PUBLIC SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL BODIES

BOLSONARO SAYS THAT BRAZILIAN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY IS CORRECT AND THAT DIPLOMATS MUST ‘SPREAD THE TRUTH’ ABOUT IT

BRAZIL SIGNS DECLARATION OFFICIALIZING INTERNATIONAL ANTI-ABORTION ALLIANCE

DISREGARDING TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS, BOLSONARO APPOINTS RETIRED POLICE COLONEL AS HEAD OF STATE-OWNED FOOD DISTRIBUTION COMPANY (‘CEAGESP’)

ARMED FORCES ARE READY TO ‘DEFEND THE HOMELAND AND ENSURE OUR FREEDOM’, BOLSONARO SAYS

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IGNORES GOALS TO FIGHT DEFORESTATION IN COUNTRY’S NEW DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY UNTIL 2031

GOVERNMENT LEADER IN THE LOWER HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT CLAIMS THE CURRENT CONSTITUTION MAKES THE COUNTRY IMPOSSIBLE TO BE GOVERNED AND SUGGESTS REFERENDUM FOR NEW CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY

MINISTRY OF ECONOMY SERVANT CALLS CORONAVIRUS A ‘CHINESE VIRUS’

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHES ‘RIGHT TO LIFE FROM CONCEPTION’ AS A DIRECTIVE AT FEDERAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

BOLSONARO LINKS COLOUR OF SOFT DRINK TO SEXUALITY IN A HOMOPHOBIC COMMENT

IN A NEW CLASH WITH THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF SÃO PAULO, BOLSONARO SAYS THAT, AS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, HE WILL NOT BUY THE CHINESE VACCINE AND THAT THE GOVERNOR SHOULD ‘FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO BUY THE VACCINE’

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS PUTS INFORMATION ABOUT THE VISIT OF USA SECRETARY OF STATE TO THE BRAZIL-VENEZUELA BORDER UNDER SECRECY

SARDINE FISHING BECOMES LEGAL IN ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION AREA DESPITE TECHNICAL EVALUATION OF THE INSTITUTE FOR BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION (‘ICMBIO’) RECOMMENDING OTHERWISE

BOLSONARO WENT AGAINST MEDICAL AND HEALTH RECOMMENDATIONS AT LEAST SIX TIMES IN THE LAST TEN DAYS OF OCTOBER, AMID PANDEMIC