Brazil’s Bolsonaro shakes up administration, eying election

By MAURICIO SAVARESE
Associated Press

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has made two major personnel changes, seeking to cap off a series of developments perceived as damaging to his administration before October’s presidential election. The first move Monday brought the exit of Brazil’s embattled education minister, who resigned amid a scandal involving allegations of evangelical pastors demanding bribes. Politicians of different parties, including some supporting Bolsonaro, had called for Milton Ribeiro to leave the job. The second shift came at the country’s state-run oil giant Petrobras, where Bolsonaro changed its president after the company boosted fuel prices to pass some of the global oil increases to consumers.