A conservative network that originated in Brazil and spread through Argentina has reached Mexico, acting as a political weapon
Despite the number of inmates serving time at home, the country’s penitentiaries remain overcrowded
Rio’s governor echoes Trump’s rhetoric on ‘narco-terrorists’ and places the issue at the center of 2026 presidential campaign
Governor Castro is considering vetoing the measure, which was in effect in the 1990s and is being reintroduced just as police fatality rates have fallen
The US president criticizes the fight against climate change at the United Nations General Assembly, calling it a ‘hoax’ and demands that Europe stop buying Russian gas and oil to end the war in Ukraine
The Brazilian Supreme Court reached a majority verdict to convict high-ranking military officers for attempting to prevent the transfer of power to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva after losing the 2022 election
The historic curse of pardoning politicians and military officers looms in Brazil as the Supreme Court tries the former president for an attempted coup
The Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling this week on the former president and several military officers accused of leading a conspiracy against Lula
The former president of Brazil, who is not required to appear, is monitoring the Supreme Court’s final deliberations from his home, where he remains under house arrest
The 50% tax on Indian imports to the United States, justified by the purchase of Russian oil, makes the Asian country the hardest-hit along with Brazil
Investigators are asking that the former president and his son Eduardo be charged with attempting to coerce the court judging him
The Brazilian president also believes Jair Bolsonaro should be tried for inciting the US to use trade as a weapon over the latter’s trial for plotting to overturn the 2022 election
The former president faces trial for allegedly plotting to commit a coup to remain in office despite his defeat in the 2022 election. This latest move is unlikely to improve relations with Donald Trump, who calls it ‘a witch hunt’
With a last-minute raft of new tariffs on dozens of countries, the Republican carried out his challenge to the globalized trade order with levies on exports to the US that will finally go into effect on August 7
The congressman and son of the former Brazilian president moved to the United States to maneuver against Lula, pave the way for tariffs against his home country, and encourage sanctions against the judge investigating his father
American officials and senators back the accusations about the ‘weaponization of the judiciary.’ Gustavo Petro replies that these remarks are ‘an intrusion into national sovereignty’
In a public letter, the US president urges the South American country to ‘immediately’ stop the legal proceedings against the former far-right president and keeps up his threat of tariffs
The White House’s tariff threat against Brazil to keep Bolsonaro out of prison goes beyond a violation of US law. It means that a president is now using economic blackmail to force another country’s justice system to do his bidding
The Brazilian president prioritizes negotiations in the trade dispute, but announces that if the White House carries out the threat, he will respond with reciprocal levies
The US has slapped the country with a 50% levy — more than any other nation — as the Republican president calls the former leader’s trial a ‘witch hunt’
Tahrir Square in Egypt, the 15-M movement in Spain, Occupy Wall Street in New York… Perhaps the most iconic image of the 2010s is that of streets taken over by massive protests. These days, it’s almost impossible to find any trace of them. Journalist Vincent Bevins tries to explain what happened to those days when the world seemed to be on fire
From a childhood marked by hunger to running one of the world’s largest waste management plants, the activist fights for the rights of those who transform trash into sustenance
Following the publication of his new essay ‘The World After Gaza’, the Indian intellectual notes that the ‘ethnic cleansing’ that Israel is carrying out is the harbinger of a new culture of cruelty and impunity taking hold in the world. In his view, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza have demonstrated the moral, political and military weakness of the West
The frenetic pace at which the president is dismantling the U.S. government apparatus is hard to process, even for someone like the expert, who intimately understands how autocracies emerge and take root
Former presidents, businessmen and celebrities are on the list of potential inauguration day attendees
Three million viewers have watched the film, whose lead actress Fernanda Torres won the Golden Globe as Brazil marked the anniversary of the 2023 coup attempt
The pact between the two blocs will have to overcome the obstacles to ratification, which will come mainly from France