Jair Bolsonaro

The marriage of the mayor of Araucária to a 16-year-old girl and the appointment of her mother to a position on the city council has sparked debate on a widespread phenomenon

The Federal Police’s press office provided a statement saying officers were carrying out 16 searches and six arrests in Rio de Janeiro related to the introduction of fraudulent data related to the Covid-19 vaccine into the nation’s health system

The news and opinion writer just won Spain’s ‘Diario Madrid Award’ and was named a World Press Freedom Hero by the International Press Institute

The Brazilian president’s return to power has been marked by efforts to reinstate his past social policies and undo what his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro did

Since the events of January 8 the recently-elected president has strived to ensure that military leaders defend South America’s largest democracy and stay out of politics

Streaming platform Globoplay scrambled to update ‘Extremistas.br’ after the assault on Brasilia’s government buildings on the eve of the premiere

‘Letters to Trump’ includes private correspondence with former presidents including Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Richard Nixon, along with celebrities like Oprah Winfrey

In his first interview since losing power, the former Brazilian president tells ‘The Wall Street Journal’: ‘The right-wing movement is not dead and will live on’

The new government of Lula da Silva is clamping down on the illegal mining industry in the Amazon, where the Yanomami have been severely impacted

The former Brazilian president did not directly address the Jan. 8 assault on the buildings housing Brazil’s Congress and Supreme Court

The former president left Brazil for Florida on Dec. 30, two days before the inauguration of his leftist rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

The popular social media accounts of several prominent right-wing figures were suspended in the country on Friday night

A timeline of how a Bolsonaro march turned into a violent mob that invaded Congress, the Supreme Court and the presidential palace

The president – while not officially conceding – finally gave a brief statement to reporters two days after losing the elections to Lula

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

The social media influencer has 125,000 followers on TikTok and 13,000 subscribers on YouTube

Investigation by NGO Conectas Derechos Humanos and São Paulo University has sought out the reasons behind the country’s Covid-19 death toll of more than 212,000 victims, as well as documenting the statements made by the president about the pandemic, vaccines and controversial ‘cures’