The leader of the Workers’ Party – who previously served as president from 2003 until 2010 – used his first day in office to sign decrees regarding deforestation, poverty reduction and gun control
The leader of Brazil’s left-wing Workers’ Party – who served as president from 2003 until 2010 – takes office this Sunday, bringing an end to four years of right-wing rule under Jair Bolsonaro
The Brazilian footballer passed away from colon cancer at the Albert Einstein Hospital in São Paulo
The 82-year-old Brazil legend was admitted to the Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital with ‘general swelling” but doctors said he had ‘full control of his vital functions’
Government institutions and private companies provide employees the time and resources to see their team during the soccer tournament in Qatar
Far-right president files complaint with the Superior Electoral Tribunal, claiming irregularities with some of the ballots cast in the country’s older voting machines
The president – while not officially conceding – finally gave a brief statement to reporters two days after losing the elections to Lula
Lula da Silva, the leftist former president, will govern Brazil for the third time after securing just under 51% of the vote
Brazil’s cultural community is holding its breath before the final round of the elections on Sunday, which will decide if the far-right president will be re-elected, or if leftist Lula da Silva will return to power
The country is bracing for a nail-biting finish to what has been a bitter campaign between two of the country’s most prominent figures
Before becoming president of Brazil in 2018, the incumbent head of state spent 27 years as a congressman – his rise to power did nothing to temper his violent outbursts, distrustful nature or religious fundamentalism
At the age of 77, the first working-class president of Brazil – who took millions of people out of poverty and spent 20 months in jail – is on the cusp of winning a third term in power after Sunday’s elections
The polls point to a technical tie between the two candidates, who are courting undecided voters and seeking to curb abstentionism ahead of a final face-to-face meeting on Friday
As Lula and Bolsonaro go after handfuls of undecided or apathetic voters before the runoff election on October 30, the opposing campaigns are launching vicious attacks at each other
The 59-year-old, who built a children’s entertainment empire in the 1990s, is beloved by tens of millions of Brazilians who grew up watching her shows and listening to her albums
Of the five cities where the leader scored his highest levels of support in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election, three of them are located in the white-majority southern state of Paraná
The vote yielded unexpected wins in key districts, confirmed a conservative majority in Congress and evidenced how polls underestimated Jair Bolsonaro
The ex-president from the Workers’ Party garnered 48% of the vote, while the incumbent right-wing president held strong at 43.5%
The former president is poised to win the first round of the election on Sunday, but it is unclear whether he will be able to avoid a runoff vote against Jair Bolsonaro on October 30
Police officer and congresswoman Katia Sastre, who rose to fame in 2018 after shooting a robber dead, embodies the growing presence of uniformed men and women in politics. More than 1,800 of them are running in the next election
The leading candidate for the governorship of Bahia says that he’s mestizo – mixed-race – drawing attention to the phenomenon of Brazilian politicians changing their race to get elected
In both instances, the child’s mother stopped her from getting an abortion, which is legal in Brazil in cases of rape
The ocean liner ‘Príncipe de Asturias’ sank in 1916, killing at least 445 people without counting all the clandestine passengers. A survivor believed the wreck might have been intentional and tied to undeclared cargo rumored to be gold
The “Man of the Hole” was found dead earlier this month. He was the only remaining member of an isolated indigenous community that was massacred in 1995
The group, which includes billionaire Luciano Hang, discussed the advantages of staging an insurrection if the president loses the October vote against Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is leading in the polls
The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, a little-known cultural gem founded 185 years ago in Rio de Janeiro, is seeing throngs of new visitors thanks to TikTok and Instagram
Police stormed Complexo do Alemão to break up a gang specializing in cargo theft and bank robberies