
Brazil’s paradox: the country progresses but Lula’s government falls in the polls
A crucial test to gauge the challenges facing the current administration will be the upcoming municipal elections in October

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

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

The Australian professor has written a book that focuses a light on the American right, where free market principles merge with puritanism

An NGO warns that the increase in violence due to the establishment of drug gangs in the largest tropical forest in the world must be included in the environmental debate

The electoral victories of Geert Wilders in the Netherlands and Javier Milei in Argentina are the latest episodes in a phenomenon that started with Trump and reflects lasting social changes

Not only did I have to exile myself from Cuba, I also had to exile myself from its exile, because it is a totalitarian exile in its metaphysical dimension

The largest rainforest in the world lost 9,001 km², an area equivalent to the size of Cyprus

Surveys from the most recent elections in Argentina, Poland, Brazil and Spain confirm that women vote less for extreme parties, as noted by many academic studies

The ex-president is accused of crimes that could lead to a 29-year prison sentence; 22 high-ranking military officers could also be charged

One week after Lula took office, thousands of former President Jair Bolsonaro supporters stormed Congress, the Supreme Court and presidential palace, refusing to accept his election defeat

The petroleum company celebrates its seventh decade of existence with its sights set on the equatorial sea around the Amazon, as it tackles the energy transition and the shadow of corruption

In an interview with EL PAÍS, the founder of Latinobarómetro — the largest public opinion survey in Latin America — analyzes the ‘democratic recession’ that she describes in her latest report

The far-right spreads lies about these goals — which were agreed upon by world leaders in 2015 — in order to boycott the progressive agenda

The annual festival gathers a million people in the countryside of São Paulo, embodying the power of the national economic engine

Aécio Lúcio Costa Pereira, 51, is the first of several participants in the uprising to be prosecuted