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Brazil's Lula pledges to finish paving road that experts say could worsen Amazon deforestation
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is pledging to finish paving a roadway in the heart of the Amazon that experts and some in his own government say could worsen deforestation.
Brazil's X ban drives outraged Bolsonaro supporters to rally for 'free speech'
A few thousand supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro have begun flooding Sao Paulo’s main boulevard for an Independence Day rally.
X announces suspension of Brazil operations, alleging ‘censorship orders’ from Supreme Court justice
Social media company X says it will close its operations in Brazil, claiming Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes threatened to arrest their legal representative in Brazil if they did not comply with orders.
Citing climate change, a federal court in Brazil halts rainforest highway paving
In an unusual action, a Brazilian federal court has halted a project to pave a dirt highway that connects the major city of Manaus to populous regions, citing the likelihood it will contribute to climate change.
Brazil’s intelligence agency under Bolsonaro spied on judiciary and lawmakers, police say
An investigation into Brazil’s federal police alleges that the country’s intelligence agency spied on members of the judiciary, lawmakers and journalists under former President Jair Bolsonaro.
Brazil's police say Bolsonaro embezzled $1.2 million in undeclared jewelry from Saudi Arabia
Brazil’s Federal Police allege former President Jair Bolsonaro embezzled jewelry worth about $1.2 million during his time in office.
Brazil's Bolsonaro indicted for alleged money laundering for undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabia
The indictment of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association in connection with undeclared diamonds from Saudi Arabia marked the far-right leader’s second formal accusation with more potentially in store.
Brazilian police indict ex-President Bolsonaro in undeclared diamonds case, sources say
Brazilian police have indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association in connection with undeclared diamonds the far-right leader received from Saudi Arabia during his time in office, according to a source with knowledge of the accusations.
New Petrobras chief is sworn in as market worries Brazil's government will have heavier hand
Magda Chambriard has been sworn in as the head of Brazil’s state-run oil giant Petrobras as market concerns of increased government intervention in the company mount.
Gay pride revelers in Sao Paulo reclaim Brazil's national symbols
The iconic yellow and green of Brazil’s flag mixed with a sea of rainbow-colored tutus, hand fans and drag queen hairdos at Sunday’s LGBTQ+ pride parade in Sao Paulo.
Conservative Brazilians laud Elon Musk at rally in support of ex-president Bolsonaro
Conservative Brazilians heaped praise on Elon Musk at a rally in the capital of Rio de Janeiro supporting far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro.
US committee releases sealed Brazil court orders to Musk's X, shedding light on account suspensions
A U.S. congressional committee has released confidential Brazilian court orders to suspend accounts on the social media platform X.
What to know about Elon Musk's 'free speech' feud with a Brazilian judge
Elon Musk is clashing with a bald, athletically built Supreme Court justice in Brazil over free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation on X.
Brazil Supreme Court justice orders investigation of Elon Musk over fake news and obstruction
A crusading Brazilian Supreme Court justice is adding Elon Musk to an investigation over the dissemination of fake news and investigating him separately for alleged obstruction.
Brazil's Krenak Indigenous group gets literary esteem and an apology for dictatorship crimes
It was a monumental week for Brazil’s Krenak Indigenous group after decades of being overlooked at best, and at worst, subjugated and tortured.
The presidents of France and Brazil meet and announce a $1.1 billion investment plan for the Amazon
The Brazilian and the French presidents announced on Tuesday a plan to invest 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) on the Amazon, including its part in neighboring French Guiana.
Brazilian police launch investigation into Bolsonaro's 2-night sleepover at Hungarian embassy
Brazil’s Federal Police on Monday launched an investigation into former President Jair Bolsonaro’s two-night stay at the Hungarian embassy in Brasilia, amid widespread speculation from his opponents that he may have been attempting to evade arrest.
Several probes target Brazil's Bolsonaro, but his COVID decisions are catching up to him first
As Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s term wound down in the final days of December 2022, he had decided to skip the ritual of handing over the presidential sash to his successor, and instead made plans to travel abroad.
Brazil's Bolsonaro is indicted for 1st time over alleged falsification of his vaccination status
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been formally accused of falsifying his COVID-19 vaccination status, marking the first indictment for the embattled far-right leader, with more allegations potentially in store.
Brazil military leaders told police Bolsonaro plotted to remain in power despite election defeat
Judicial documents show that top Brazilian military leaders declared to police that former President Jair Bolsonaro presented to them a plan to reverse the results of the 2022 election he lost, but they refused and warned him that they would arrest him if he tried it.
Jair Bolsonaro is under investigation in Brazil for allegedly harassing a whale off Sao Paulo
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is under investigation for allegedly harassing a humpback whale while riding a personal watercraft off Sao Paulo’s coast last year.
Supporters of Brazil's Bolsonaro stage huge demonstration to defend him amid investigations
Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro have staged a huge demonstration jamming a main avenue in the country's biggest city to defend him against legal challenges that could put him in jail.
Brazil’s Bolsonaro stays silent in meeting with police as part of coup investigation
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and some of his former top aides have met with police as part of an investigation into allegations they plotted a coup to remove Bolsonaro’s successor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Brazil police investigate ex-President Bolsonaro's top aides over alleged coup plot
Brazilian police have searched homes and offices of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s top aides in an investigation alleging they plotted a coup and that the ex-president was aware of the plan.
Brazil's police investigate Bolsonaro's intelligence boss over alleged political spying
Court records show that Brazil’s federal police are investigating the country’s former intelligence chief as part of a wider probe into alleged spying on political opponents under former President Jair Bolsonaro.
Brazil observes anniversary of the anti-democratic uprising in the capital
Brazil has observed the anniversary of last year’s uprising in the capital when thousands of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings and called for a military intervention to remove President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from office.
Takeaways from lawsuits accusing meat giant JBS, others of contributing to Amazon deforestation
Authorities in a western Brazil state are taking aim at deforestation of the Amazon with a slew of lawsuits against slaughterhouses and farmers accused of illegally raising cattle in a protected area.
Brazil’s Congress overrides president's veto to reinstate legislation threatening Indigenous rights
Brazil’s Congress has overturned a veto by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva so it can reinstate legislation that undoes protections of Indigenous peoples’ land rights.
Brazil's Lula takes heat on oil plans at UN climate talks, a turnaround after hero status last year
At last year's climate talks, then Brazilian President-elect Inacio Lula da Silva was received as a hero with chants of “Lula.
Trump tells Argentina's President-elect Javier Milei he plans to visit Buenos Aires
Former President Donald Trump has told Argentina’s President-elect Javier Milei that he plans to travel to the South American country so the two can meet.
Desperate and disaffected, Argentines to vote whether upstart Milei leads them into the unknown
Millions of disaffected voters in Argentina are planning to cast their ballots Sunday for right-wing populist and self-described anarcho-capitalist, Javier Milei.
Brazil's Bolsonaro should be charged with attempting to stage a coup, congressional panel says
A Brazilian congressional panel has accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of instigating the country’s Jan. 8 riots and recommended that he be charged with attempting to stage a coup.
Congressional draft report in Brazil recommends charges for Bolsonaro over Jan. 8 insurrection
A draft congressional report on Brazil’s Jan. 8 riots has accused ex-President Jair Bolsonaro of being the insurrection’s mastermind.
Brazil slows Amazon deforestation, but in Chico Mendes' homeland, it risks being too late
Luzineide Marques da Silva knows the location of each of the 748 rubber trees in the Brazilian Amazon that she and her family have rights to tap for latex.
Indigenous people in Brazil shed tears of joy as the Supreme Court enshrines their land rights
Indigenous people in Brazil are celebrating after the country's Supreme Court ruled to enshrine their land rights.
Biden and Brazil's Lula focus on workers' rights while publicly playing down differences
President Joe Biden and his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, focused on workers’ rights as the leaders of the Western Hemisphere’s largest democracies met Wednesday in New York.
Brazil's top court imposes 17-year sentence, in first case against rioters who stormed the capital
Brazil’s Supreme Court has handed a 17-year prison sentence to a supporter of former President Jair Bolsonaro who stormed top government offices on Jan. 8 in an alleged bid to forcefully restore the right-wing leader to office.
Brazilian Indigenous women use fashion to showcase their claim to rights and the demarcation of land
Indigenous women in Brazil’s capital Brasilia showcased their creations during a fashion event as part of the Third March of Indigenous Women to claim women’s rights and the demarcation of Indigenous lands.
Brazil's Bolsonaro accused by ex-aide's lawyer of ordering sale of jewelry given as official gift
A lawyer for an aide to then Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says the leader ordered the aide to sell undeclared luxury jewelry received as a gift and funnel the money to him.
Brazilian hacker claims Bolsonaro asked him to hack into the voting system ahead of 2022 vote
A Brazilian hacker claims then-President Jair Bolsonaro asked him to hack the country’s electronic voting system to expose its alleged weaknesses ahead of the 2022 presidential election.
Argentine peso plunges after rightist who admires Trump comes first in primary vote
The Argentine peso plunged Monday after a 52-year-old anti-establishment candidate who admires former President Donald Trump came first in primary elections that will help determine the country’s next president.
Brazil's police allege Bolsonaro got money from $70,000 sale of luxury jewelry gifts
Brazil’s federal police allege former President Jair Bolsonaro received cash from the sale of two luxury watches he received as gifts from Saudi Arabia while in office.
Brazil has 1.7 million Indigenous people, near double the count from prior census, government says
The diminutive woman with a white feather headdress was standing on the stage of the majestic colonial theater in Brazil’s Amazon and addressing the crowd.
Indigenous leader inspires an Amazon city to grant personhood to an endangered river
In late June, the Amazon city of Guajara-Mirim approved a law that designates the Komi Memem River “as a living entity and subject to rights.”.
In Lula's first six months, Brazil Amazon deforestation dropped 34%, reversing trend under Bolsonaro
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest dropped 33.6% in the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s term, providing an encouraging sign for his administration's environmental efforts.
Amazon Indigenous are leaving rainforest for cities, and finding urban poverty
Thousands of Amazon Indigenous are leaving their rainforest villages in a migration to urban areas that is reshaping their lives, their villages and their new cities.
Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro is barred from running for office until 2030
Far-right former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been barred from running for office again until 2030 after a panel of judges concluded that he abused his power and cast unfounded doubts on the country’s electronic voting system.
Bolsonaro’s political future hangs in the balance as Brazilian court case begins
Brazil’s top electoral court has started hearing a case that could torpedo the political future of former President Jair Bolsonaro by rendering him ineligible for public office for eight years.
Brazil's Congress weakens pro-environment ministries in a rejection of Lula
In a rejection of early moves by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva who took office in January, Brazil’s Congress has stripped powers from the new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples and Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change, both led by women environmentalists.
Bolsonaro home searched as Brazil probes fake vaccine cards
Brazil’s Federal Police have searched former President Jair Bolsonaro’s home and seized his phone in what they say is an investigation into alleged falsification of COVID-19 vaccine cards.
Paraguay: Populist candidate fires up protesters after vote
Hundreds of protesters have gathered in Paraguay’s capital for the second straight day of demonstrations alleging that this weekend’s presidential elections were marred by fraud, a claim that President-elect Santiago Peña, electoral authorities and international observers roundly dismissed.
Brazil recognizes 6 Indigenous areas in boost for Amazon
Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has approved the creation of six Indigenous territories, the first such move after a five-year hiatus in Indigenous demarcation.
Brazil's Lula visits Spain with Mercosur deal on agenda
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has arrived in Spain on the second stop of a European tour aimed at resetting relations and making progress on a trade deal between the European and South American bloc Mercosur.
Amazon Indigenous woman wins Goldman environment prize
Alessandra Korap, a Munduruku Indigenous woman from the Brazilian Amazon, has been awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her work fighting against illegal mining and large-scale projects aimed at facilitating soybean exports in the Tapajos River Basin.
In China, Lula seeks help to build back Brazilian industry
The trip by Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to Beijing has made clear he is counting on China to help reinvigorate the South American nation’s ailing industrial sector.
Brazil's Lula struggling to move forward after 100 days
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva finishes the first 100 days of his third term as Brazil’s president on Monday and his return to power has been marked by efforts to reinstate his past social policies and undo his predecessor’s legacy.
Brazil's Bolsonaro turns in undeclared jewels to authorities
A representative of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday has handed a set of diamond jewelry over to a state bank, as ordered by a government watchdog and amid investigations into the president’s involvement in bringing the jewels from Saudi Arabia.
Brazil watchdog tells Bolsonaro to cede jewels from Saudis
A Brazilian government watchdog is giving former President Jair Bolsonaro five working days to return to authorities a set of jewels he received from Saudi Arabia in 2021.
Five years after Rio councilwoman slain, questions and hope
Supporters gathered Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro to mark five years since the assassination of Black, bisexual councilwoman Marielle Franco amid hope that investigations into her death will accelerate under Brazil’s new leftist president.
Lula meets with Indigenous in Brazil's Amazon, pledges lands
On his first trip to Indigenous land in the Amazon rainforest since taking office, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has expressed support for the creation of new territories for those communities.
Brazil delegation visits Amazon region where pair died
A delegation from the Brazilian government that includes widows of two slain men who had worked for justice for Indigenous Amazon peoples arrived in the remote region where the two were slain Monday in a symbolic retake of the place, now that a new government has taken office in Brazil.
Biden, Lula focus on democracy, climate during visit
President Joe Biden and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have met at the White House and reflected on how their nations were tested in their respective battles to preserve democracy.
Bolsonaro defends tenure, questions Brazil election defeat
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro spoke to hundreds of supporters at a property owned by former U.S. President Donald Trump Friday and did not discourage them from claiming he lost his election due to fraud.
Ally claims Bolsonaro plotted coup to block Lula presidency
A Brazilian magazine has released audio of a senator claiming then President Jair Bolsonaro sought help in a plot to annul the October elections and keep himself in power.
Brazil authorities probe Amazon ties to capital attacks
An investigation into anti-democratic protests and a recent attack on Brazil's capital is centering in part on areas along an important highway that goes through the Amazon.
Brazil's Bolsonaro applies for 6-month U.S. visitor visa
Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro has filed a request for a six-month visitor visa to stay in the U.S., indicating he may have no immediate intention to return home, where legal issues await.
Brazil police raid Bolsonaro nephew's home in uprising probe
Brazil’s federal police have searched the home of a nephew of former President Jair Bolsonaro in connection with the Jan. 8 storming of government buildings in the capital by far-right protesters.
Brazil's new president works to reverse Amazon deforestation
Environmentalists, Indigenous people and voters sympathetic to their causes were important to Luiz Inácio da Silva's election to a third term as Brazil's president.
Brazil's army chief fired in aftermath of capital uprising
Brazil's president has fired the army chief after the leftist leader openly said some military members allowed the Jan. 8 uprising in the capital by far-right protesters.
Rio Holocaust Memorial remembers Jewish victims - and others
Rio de Janeiro has opened the doors to a Holocaust Memorial that honors not only Jewish victims, but also lesser-known groups likewise persecuted by the Nazi regime, including artists, anarchists, masons, Roma people, Jehovah’s Witnesses, gay people and the disabled.
Brazil's Supreme Court agrees to probe Bolsonaro for riot
Brazil’s Supreme Court has agreed to investigate whether former president Jair Bolsonaro incited the far-right mob that ransacked the country’s Congress, top court and presidential offices, a swift escalation in the probe that shows the ex-leader could face legal consequences for an extremist movement he helped build.
Brazil reckons with artistic treasures ruined in riot
The horde of rioters who invaded government buildings on Jan. 8 in an attack on Brazil’s democracy left behind a trail of destruction whose full scope is only now coming into full view.
Bolsonaro eyes return to Brazil as US stay pressures Biden
The Biden administration is under growing pressure from leftists in Latin America as well as U.S. lawmakers to expel Jair Bolsonaro from a post-presidential retreat in Florida following an attack by his supporters on Brazil’s capital.
EXPLAINER: Roots of the Brazilian capital's chaotic uprising
Thousands of Brazilians who support former president Jair Bolsonaro invaded the Supreme Court, presidential palace and Congress on Jan. 8 in an episode that closely resembled the U.S. Capitol insurrection in 2021.
Brazil and Jan. 6 in US: Parallel attacks, but not identical
The scenes of supporters of Brazil's defeated president Jair Bolsonaro breaking into government buildings that are the very symbol of their country’s democracy brought back memories of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
As Brazil reels from riots, Bolsonaro finds home in Florida
As Brazil reels from mobs of rioters swarming its seats of power, its former leader has decamped to a Florida resort, where droves of supporters flocked to cheer on their ousted president.
Brazil cracks down after riot and vows to protect democracy
Brazilian authorities are vowing to protect democracy and punish thousands of supporters of ex-President Jair Bolsonaro who stormed and trashed the nation’s highest seats of power.
Pro-Bolsonaro rioters storm Brazil's top government offices
Authorities have reestablished control of Brazilian government buildings in the capital several hours after supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro who refuse to accept his electoral defeat stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and presidential palace.