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Brazilian politics

  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    Americas politics & policy
    Brazil’s Lula visits former Argentina leader Kirchner under house arrest

    Leftists’ meeting underscores Brasília’s strained ties with neighbour’s libertarian president Javier Milei

  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    Technology regulation
    Brazil supreme court rules digital platforms are liable for users’ posts

    Ruling risks stoking tensions with US amid accusations of censorship of social media groups

    A man holds a Brazilian flag from the window of a bus
  • Tuesday, 10 June, 2025
    Ex-Brazilian president Bolsonaro takes the stand over alleged coup plot

    Erstwhile rightwing head of state denies planning putsch to remain in power after failing to win re-election

    Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attends a session of the Brazilian Supreme Court to take the stand for in-person questioning of those accused of the attempted coup d’état in January 2023, in Brasília
  • Monday, 9 June, 2025
    Brazilian economy
    Brazil plans panda bond as Lula looks to bolster ties with China

    Planned issuance also includes debt in Europe and will test investor appetite amid concerns over government policies

    Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, shaking hands with Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on May 13 2025
  • Wednesday, 4 June, 2025
    FT Film21 min
    Petrobras: fuelling the future or stuck in the past? | FT Film

    The question is in what direction is it going and at what cost, both for investors and Brazilian society?

    Petrobras: Scandal, power and purpose
  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
    Brazil
    Brazil in last-ditch lobbying push to avert US sanctions on top judge

    Trump administration sympathetic to conservative arguments that free speech is under threat in South American country

    Supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro rally in São Paulo
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Agricultural production
    China suspends chicken imports from Brazil due to detection of bird flu

    South American nation had been the last big producer not affected by the outbreak

    Chickens at a poultry farm in Westfália, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    Brazil’s $1bn pension fraud casts shadow over Lula re-election hopes

    Accusations of slow response to scandal hit president as polls began recovering from year-long slide

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva attends a meeting in May 2025 at the Kremlin in Moscow
  • Thursday, 24 April, 2025
    Jair Bolsonaro
    Jair Bolsonaro’s medical condition deteriorates in hospital

    Former president of Brazil remains in intensive care 11 days after surgery as trial looms over alleged coup plot

    Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro arrives by ambulance at the Rio Grande Hospital in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil on April 11
  • Wednesday, 23 April, 2025
    Brazil
    China and Brics will ‘defend’ global order as Trump withdraws, Brazil says

    Developing nations are ‘main defenders’ of global diplomacy, argues president’s top foreign policy adviser

    Flags of the BRICS countries
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    The Big Read
    The risky trial of Jair Bolsonaro

    Brazilian authorities want justice over an alleged coup plot, but the case against the former president risks boosting his popularity — and dividing the country

    Montage of images of Jair Bolsonaro, Alexandre de Moraes and a protester’s sign reading ‘Sem Anistia’ (no amnesty) on a green background with yellow stars
  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    Jair Bolsonaro
    Brazil’s Bolsonaro to stand trial over alleged coup plot

    Hard-right populist denies claims he sought to prevent leftwing rival Lula taking office

    Former Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    InterviewJair Bolsonaro
    Brazil’s Bolsonaro calls for foreign help in overture to Trump

    Hard-right former president faces charges of plotting coup against Lula and could spend rest of life in jail

    Jair Bolsonaro
  • Sunday, 16 March, 2025
    Copper
    Vale’s relations with Brazil government improve after tensions last year, says boss

    Group’s head Pimenta highlights easing strains that should help settle investor nerves

    Three workers in hard hats and reflective safety clothing stand in front of a wall in a tunnel
  • Sunday, 9 March, 2025
    Brazil
    Son of Brazil’s indicted ex-president Bolsonaro lobbies Trump camp

    Eduardo Bolsonaro seeks support in Washington as his father faces charges of leading a coup plot

    Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro, gestures while giving a speech during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina in December 2024
  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    Brazilian economy
    Brazil to scrap import tariffs on basic foods

    Initiative aims to curb rising grocery bills eating into popularity of leftwing leader Lula

    A customer checks out the offers at the meat market in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil
  • Tuesday, 28 January, 2025
    ReviewVisual Arts
    ‘Brasil! Brasil!’ at the Royal Academy — it feels like summer in this sumptuous show

    Modernist pioneers offer an upbeat winter tonic — Burlington House hasn’t looked this eye-popping in years

  • Sunday, 22 December, 2024
    News in-depthBrazilian economy
    ‘Fear in the market’: Brazil’s fiscal shortfall sends currency plumbing new lows

    President faces greatest challenge in his third term as leader

    A politician holds  holds a US $1 bill with an image of Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on it in Brazil’s Congress this week
  • Sunday, 15 December, 2024
    Brazil’s left forced to consider post-Lula future

    Ageing leader’s brain surgery brings to fore the risk of a power vacuum in his party once his political career ends

    Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is carried on the shoulders through the crowd of supporters
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Brazil police call for Bolsonaro to be charged for alleged coup plot

    Former rightwing president among dozens accused of involvement in scheme to prevent Lula taking office

    Jair Bolsonaro speaking into a microphone
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    The Big Read
    Brazil’s global balancing act is trickier than ever

    President Lula has sought to maintain ties with the US, China and Russia. But even before the re-election of Donald Trump, that diplomatic space was shrinking

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Great Hall of the People in Beijing and the US Capitol
  • Sunday, 27 October, 2024
    São Paulo loss caps dismal local elections for Brazil’s Lula

    Defeat of candidates backed by leftwing president at regional level weakens his own re-election prospects

    Ricardo Nunes with wife Regina and the candidate for vice-prefect, Ricardo de Mello Araujo, right, in São Paulo on Sunday
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    X Corp
    X returns to Brazil after Elon Musk complies with court orders

    Ban lifted as billionaire backs down on his refusal to remove extremist content from platform

    The social media platform X  app on a smartphone in Rio de Janeiro
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    News in-depthSpace Exploration Technologies Corp
    Elon Musk’s Starlink faces legal jeopardy in Brazil after X ban

    Billionaire’s satellite service is considered vital in remote areas but is coming under new scrutiny in Latin American country

    Montage of Elon Musk, Brazil flag, Starlink logo
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    X Corp
    Brazil imposes fine on Musk’s X after service returns

    Platform says temporary restoration was ‘inadvertent’ but will keep fighting court order that banned it in the country

    Elon Musk’s X account on a mobile phone with a Brazilian flag
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