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Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro listens during a presentation at the Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Oct. 19, 2020. The Brazilian government announced the results of clinical tests with use of the drug Nitazoxanide for COVID-19 treatment. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro rejects Chinese vaccine against COVID-19

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 17, 2020, file photo, Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro who is infected with COVID-19, wears a protective face mask as he flashes thumbs-up at supporters during a Brazilian flag retreat ceremony outside his official residence Alvorada Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil. Bolsonaro announced his illness in July and used it to publicly extol hydroxychloroquine, the unproven malaria drug that he’d been promoting as a treatment for COVID-19 and was taking himself. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro baffles evangelicals with top court pick

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro attends the launch of the Mining and Development Program, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil president calls Biden’s Amazon comments ‘disastrous’

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

A firefighter rides a motorcycle past a burning area next to the Transpantaneira road at the Pantanal wetlands near Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. A vast swath of the vital wetlands is burning in Brazil, sweeping across several national parks and obscuring the sun behind dense smoke. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil adds some to force fighting vast wetlands blazes

By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUZA - Associated Press

In this image made from UNTV, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks in a pre-recorded message which was played during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2020, at U.N. headquarters in New York. The U.N.'s first virtual meeting of world leaders started Tuesday with pre-recorded speeches from some of the planet's biggest powers, kept at home by the coronavirus pandemic that will likely be a dominant theme at their video gathering this year. (UNTV via AP )

Bolsonaro to world: Brazil is victim of environmental smear

By DAVID BILLER and MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

A fisherman plays with his daughter as he works in Alter do Chao, district of Santarem, Para state, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. This once pristine place is discovering that the perils of becoming a can’t-miss destination extend beyond hordes of weekend warriors sapping the unspoiled place of its charm. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Amazon land grabbers assail ecotourism paradise in Brazil

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, wearing a mask to curb the spread of COVID-19, hands a pen to Health Minister Gen. Eduardo Pazuelo, left, at Planalto Presidential Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. After almost four months overseeing the COVID-19 response as interim health minister, Gen. Eduardo Pazuello will finally be made a full minister. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil general named health minister after months as interim

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro wearing a mask attends a ceremony about the extension of emergency aid to help the poor population affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, at the Planalto Presidential Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil leader rapped for stirring doubt on COVID-19 vaccine

By Mauricio Savarese and Tatiana Pollastri - Associated Press

Fire consumes land deforested by cattle farmers near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020. Under military command, Brazil's once-effective investigation and prosecution of illegal rainforest destruction by ranchers, farmers and miners has come to a virtual halt, even as this year's burning season is about to begin. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

AP finds Brazil’s plan to protect Amazon has opposite effect

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Workers from Brazil's state-run environment agency IBAMA check an area consumed by fire near Novo Progresso, Para state, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020. Experts say the blazes are pushing the world's largest rainforest toward a tipping point, after which it will cease to generate enough rainfall to sustain itself. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Amazon continues to burn in 2020 despite promises to save it

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

Players of Corinthians, in white, and Palmeiras play the Sao Paulo league first leg final soccer match at the Arena Corinthians stadium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. The match is being played without spectators to curb the spread of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil soccer’s Serie A begins as COVID-19 deaths at 100,000

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro wears a mask amid the COVID-19 pandemic at the start of a ceremony where his nation's flag is projected in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Top court rules Brazil must protect Indigenous in pandemic

By DÉBORA ÁLVARES - Associated Press

In this photo distributed by Brazil's presidential press office, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, left, and U.S. Ambassador Todd Chapman pose for a photo during an event to mark U.S. Independence Day at the ambassador's residence in Brasilia, Brazil, Saturday, July 4, 2020. (Isac Nobrega/Brazil's presidential press office via AP)

Trump’s envoy close to Brazil’s leader — some say too close

By DAVID BILLER and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

Facebook bows to Brazil judge, blocks 12 accounts worldwide

By RICARDO COLETTA - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro wearing a protective mask to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, left, talks with Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina during the launching ceremony of a rights guarantee program for rural women, at the Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, July 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro keeps mum at first event since recovery

By RICARDO COLETTA - Associated Press

Number of fires more than doubles in Brazil’s Pantanal

By DANIEL CARVALHO and RICARDO COLETTA - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, who is infected with COVID-19, wears a protective face mask as he talks with supporters during a Brazilian flag retreat ceremony outside his official residence the Alvorada Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, July 24, 2020. Bolsonaro has tested positive for the new coronavirus for the third time, following his July 7 announcement that he had COVID-19, the Brazilian government confirmed. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro says he tested negative for coronavirus

By DANIEL CARVALHO - Associated Press

This combination photo shows U.S. President Donald J. Trump, from left, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro. The countries atop the rankings of COVID-19 deaths globally are led by populist, mold-breaking leaders. But when it comes to battling a new disease like COVID-19, the disruptive policies of populists are faring poorly compared to more resilient liberal democratic models in countries like Germany, France and Iceland in Europe, or South Korea or Japan in Asia. (AP Photo)

In struggle against pandemic, populist leaders fare poorly

By JOHN DANISZEWSKI - Associated Press

Darick Caverni and his wife Michelle watch as cemetery workers in protective clothing lower the coffin that contain the remains of his 88-year-old aunt Wilma Caverni, who died of the new coronavirus, at the Vila Formosa cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Brazil is nearing 2 million cases of COVID-19 and 75,000 deaths. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil tops 2 million coronavirus cases, with 76,000 dead

By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DAVID BILLER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2019 file photo, logs are stacked at a lumber mill surrounded by recently charred and deforested fields near Porto Velho, Rondonia state, Brazil. Dozens of Brazilian corporations are calling for a crackdown on illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest, expressing their concerns in a letter Tuesday, July 7, 2020, to the vice president, who heads the government's council on that region. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

Bolsonaro imposes 4-month ban on fires to preserve Amazon

By MARCELO DE SOUSA - Associated Press