Lula da Silva

Support for the leftist president has risen in the south of the country and among evangelicals due to the positive economic outlook

The Brazilian president delivered a message to industrialized nations at a climate summit in Belém, arguing they should ‘pay their part so we can revive part of what was ruined’

Leaders and ministers from eight Amazon nations signed a declaration Tuesday that laid out plans to drive economic development in their countries while preventing the Amazon’s ongoing demise ‘from reaching a point of no return’

While fewer trees are being chopped down in Brazil and Colombia, the rest of the region continues to spiral. The environmental summit will be a key event for the leaders of Peru and Venezuela, who will face each other on the international stage for the first time

The police ombudsman has opened an investigation after 600 officers were deployed in a favela following the fatal shooting. Witnesses reported abuses including alleged torture

The Brazilian president believes that the EU-CELAC summit held in Brussels was ‘extremely successful’

Daniel Ortega’s regime is close to Moscow and has an autocratic track record; it prevented a unanimous statement on the invasion, but the Central American nation stands alone

The owner of UC Global, which held a security contract at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, also kept intimate images of a diplomat in his safe for alleged blackmail attempt

The Ortega-Murillo dictatorship has struggled to rid itself of a highly inconvenient political prisoner and its most outspoken clerical critic

The South American city’s privileged public transportation network, 48 parks, 13 million square meters of vegetation and a genuine recycling culture ensure that the miracle that began half a century ago will endure

The measure seeks a legal framework for reserving 4% of its 900 labor inspector positions for specific minorities

Macron invites dozens of world leaders to redefine financial architecture and release funds for low-income countries at risk due to environmental crisis

‘The submitted proposals are intended to question the unprecedented brutality applied by the dictatorship of Ortega and Murillo,’ claim denationalized Nicaraguan dissidents

In his daily medical update Wednesday, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni added that Francis was at work during the day and had received the Eucharist during a moment of prayer in the chapel of his hospital suite

Caught in the crossfire between his two closest confidants and fixated on conspiracies, the leftist leader is unable to get anything done

The meeting has given Nicolás Maduro a diplomatic boost, but Chile and Uruguay were quick to distance themselves from Lula’s comments about the crisis in the country

Lula wants to revive the Union of South American Nations, or Unasur, which was launched in 2008 to boost cooperation, but became largely defunct about a decade later in disputes over leadership

To the chagrin of the West, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva strongly defends his own position, whether that be on Venezuela or China

The meeting is part of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s attempt to reinvigorate regional integration efforts that have in the past floundered amid the continent’s political swings and polarization

The Ukrainian president hoped to persuade Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to change their position on the war in Ukraine

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 U.N. secretary general talks to EL PAÍS about the Russian invasion, Europe’s failure to address the refugee crisis and why more needs to be done to address global warming

There are several huge projects that activists and experts say would devastate the natural world, and seriously dent Lula’s newfound image as a defender of the environment, if they proceed under his watch

The Brazilian president called it ‘an embarrassment’ and ‘a crazy thing’ that Assange would be jailed for denouncing fraud, and bemoaned the press for failing to come to his defense