
Brazil vs. Bolsonaro: Keys to a historic coup attempt trial
The Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling this week on the former president and several military officers accused of leading a conspiracy against Lula

The Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling this week on the former president and several military officers accused of leading a conspiracy against Lula

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

Chinese companies’ commitment to the South American country has accelerated, placing it as the second destination for direct investment in the first half of 2025, behind only Indonesia

Investigators are asking that the former president and his son Eduardo be charged with attempting to coerce the court judging him

With 90 days to go until COP30 in Belém, skyrocketing hotel prices and a shortage of beds are monopolizing preparatory contacts

The annual report criticizes Germany for its laws against far-right speech and refrains from censuring Israel’s actions in Gaza

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’

That the event is taking place in such a symbolic territory is a powerful statement that offers an extraordinary opportunity to change the narrative, re-center Indigenous knowledge, and reimagine governance

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

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 White House’s tariff threat against Brazil to keep Bolsonaro out of prison goes beyond a violation of US law. It means that a president is now using economic blackmail to force another country’s justice system to do his bidding

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

There are no walls high enough to preserve islands of peace and prosperity surrounded by violence and misery, writes Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

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’

The leaders of India and Indonesian are taking advantage of the BRICS summit to make official visits to Brazil

The former president has been barred for life from running for public office, but she is by no means out of the electoral game

Embrapa, the public agricultural research agency, is committed to combining livestock, crops, and trees to turn around a sector that pollutes more than Japan

The former Colombian president analyzes the challenges facing the left in the region following Trump’s return: ‘Wokeism has reduced us to a kind of minority tribalism’

Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Emmanuel Macron, and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are some of the heads of state expected to attend the solemn ceremony

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

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

In an exclusive interview with EL PAÍS, the president of Colombia analyzes the difficult situation within his government, the confrontation with Trump, and assures that being head of state is ‘absolute unhappiness’

The Colombian tells of the mistreatment to which US authorities subject migrants expelled after the Republican assumed the presidency

Claudia Sheinbaum has stayed out of the conflict between the U.S. president and Gustavo Petro and appeals to López Obrador’s learning to avoid a direct clash; Lula resorts to a diplomatic path, but makes his anger at the conditions of deportation flights clear

The economist, who studies large technology companies’ monopoly on knowledge, is advising the Brazilian government on the development of a sovereign digital strategy

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