Jair Bolsonaro

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 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

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