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
Investigators maintain that the former president’s plan failed because the heads of the Army and Air Force refused to support him
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
A BBC documentary about the Roman dictator shows how his excessive ambition for power ultimately overthrew a republican system. The film also draws parallels between him and current forms of populism
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
A crucial test to gauge the challenges facing the current administration will be the upcoming municipal elections in October
Candidates from all over the world — Trump in the U.S., Bolsonaro in Brazil, Maduro in Venezuela — seek to reach or stay in power for one main reason: it is the only way to avoid ending up in jail
Darci Alves Pereira is an insurrectionist and murderer of the environmentalist Chico Mendes in 1988, but he has taken over local politics in the Amazonian town of Medicilandia
It already seems clear that the wife of the former Brazilian president will begin her entry into active politics as soon as possible. She will likely start with the municipal elections scheduled for October
The region’s far-right leaders are waging a battle against the gains made by the feminist movement
The former Brazilian president is being accused of promoting a coup that had its most notorious expression in Brasília
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