Jair Bolsonaro

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

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

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