Jair Bolsonaro

The president has announced extra funding to fight the 200,000 wildfire outbreaks that are engulfing 60% of the country in smoke

One in five elections was challenged between 2020 and 2024, according to the latest report from the intergovernmental institute IDEA

Several documentaries, a series and a fictional film investigate the rise of extremism through the biography of Mussolini, religious fundamentalism in Brazil and activists willing to ruin their lives to defend Donald Trump

The soccer player, who died in 2011, was one of the protagonists of the Diretas Já campaign 40 years ago to restore democracy after the dictatorship

A survey conducted by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance shows that, in 11 of 19 countries analyzed, less than half of voters think that the last elections were free and fair

Two corrupt politicians and a police commissioner from Rio de Janeiro are arrested as the masterminds of the 2018 crime

Sixty years have passed since the 1964 military coup, an event that current President Lula would rather not mark with any ceremony so as not to further strain his relationship with the military

The biggest corruption investigation in Brazilian history, which had repercussions throughout Latin America, turns ten years old. It has become irrelevant, and many sentences have been overturned in the country where it started

The former Brazilian President was one of the few world leaders railing against the vaccine, openly flouting health restrictions and encouraging society to follow his example

The statements add to his legal woes as prosecutors seek to find links between the far-right leader and the Jan. 8, 2023 riots that trashed government buildings in capital Brasilia one week after Lula’s inauguration

In an interview with EL PAÍS, the Chilean head of state reviews his time in office and addresses his political future. ‘The depth of the changes we imagined went against the grain of what the majority of people wanted. We changed our priorities and our speed, but not our principles,’ he says, at the halfway point of his administration

The region’s far-right leaders are waging a battle against the gains made by the feminist movement

The former far-right president, several generals and around 20 other men are accused of spending months organizing a plot to annul the results of the 2022 elections and block Lula from taking office

Investigators accused the former president of drafting a decree to annul the 2022 elections, forbade him to leave the country and confiscated his passport

Police are investigating an ‘organized crime’ group that operated within the intelligence agency during Bolsonaro’s term, which ended in Dec. 2022

The former general director of the ABIN, now a federal lawmaker, is suspected of having monitored 30,000 people considered adversaries of the former president

She decided to fight on behalf of the Amazon on the frontlines of its destruction, moving from São Paulo to Altamira. In her writing, she warns that putting the world’s largest tropical rainforest at risk could mean a holocaust for many species, including our own

On Monday, the president is leading an event with Congress and the Supreme Court to celebrate the country’s democracy on the first anniversary of Bolsonaro supporters’ assault in Brasília

On Monday, Lula and other officials will gather in Congress for the peculiar exhibit called “Unshakeable Democracy” in a symbolic ceremony aimed at reassuring Brazilians of the strength of their democratic system of government

Economic growth has bolstered the president, who has just completed one year in power. His administration has prioritized the fight against hunger and poverty, while investing in public works and environmental protection