Jair Bolsonaro

Alt-right digital influencer loses out by narrow margin in São Paulo mayoral race

Pablo Marçal hints at a run for presidency despite facing potential ban from future elections over forged medical report about rival Guilherme Boulos

Mon Oct 07 2024 - 18:07

Pablo for mayor: A lifestyle coach with no political experience and a criminal past

São Paulo’s mayoral election had been uninspiring. Then Pablo Marçal threw his baseball cap into the ring

Sun Sept 22 2024 - 14:29

Brazilian court orders ‘total suspension’ of X as row with Elon Musk deepens

Internet providers in Brazil will be told to block social media platform as Musk misses deadline to appoint legal representative in the country

Fri Aug 30 2024 - 22:25

Elon Musk’s X braced for ban in Brazil amid fight with judge

Judge Alexandre de Moraes says moves against platform are part of fight to protect democracy from misinformation and hateful content

Fri Aug 30 2024 - 09:38

Bolsonaro rally exposes a weakened political leader

São Paulo Letter: The former president has many legal woes and fears arrest

Tue Feb 27 2024 - 06:00

Bolsonaro draws supporters to rally amid coup denials

Former Brazilian president is being investigated over alleged role in attacks on government buildings

Mon Feb 26 2024 - 09:05

What’s the latest crisis facing the Amazon rain forest?

Experts are warning that ‘the lungs of the world’ face a disastrous tipping point by 2050 unless radical action is taken

Sat Feb 17 2024 - 06:00

Bolsonaro ordered to surrender passport in Brazil ‘coup plot’ investigation

Three aides to former leader arrested as police set out details of alleged plan to prevent Lula taking office after 2022 polls

Thu Feb 08 2024 - 19:39

Brazil president Lula close to deal with rightwing parties

Government, which does not hold a majority in Congress, is in talks with allies of former president Jair Bolsonaro

Tue Aug 29 2023 - 09:05

Bolsonaro, the Saudi Rolex sold in a US shopping centre, and how it could lead to his arrest

Brazil’s ex-president faces multiple criminal inquiries. But his biggest threat may be the case involving a watch gifted by the Saudis and sold in Pennsylvania

Wed Aug 23 2023 - 16:26

Amazon rainforest nations gather for first time in 14 years in bid to create shared policy

Summit could agree to a regional pact to stop deforestation by 2030, among other measures

Tue Aug 08 2023 - 14:38

Amazon summit may be best chance to save rainforest

Indigenous leaders seek to play key role in talks as Brazil regional summit raises hopes for Amazon protection

Sun Aug 06 2023 - 14:00

Swiftflation: star’s pulling power likely to push up prices

Planet Business: Bolsonaro themed party hats; bumper Barbie box office forecasts; and Threads v Twitter

Fri Jul 14 2023 - 00:00

Former Brazilian president Bolsonaro barred from serving in public office until 2030

Four out of seven justices voted to convict Bolsonaro for abuse of power and misuse of the media during 2022 election

Fri Jun 30 2023 - 17:02

Bolsonaro’s political career hangs in balance as abuse of power court case begins

Brazil’s Democratic Labour Party claims former president used government channels to promote campaign and cast doubts on electronic voting system

Thu Jun 22 2023 - 17:51

Brazilian police raid Bolsonaro home in fake vaccine certs inquiry

Former president accused of using forged documents to travel to US illegally

Thu May 04 2023 - 08:53

Jair Bolsonaro summoned in Saudi jewel inquiry as he returns to Brazil

Former president has been in self-imposed exile in Florida after refusing to concede defeat in last year’s election

Thu Mar 30 2023 - 12:41

Why the Amazon’s largest isolated tribe is dying

The infant mortality rate among the 31,000 Yanomamis in Brazil now exceeds those of war-torn and famine-stricken countries, with one in 10 infants dying, government data says

Wed Mar 29 2023 - 05:30

The Clock Winds Down: Brian Maguire’s powerful portrayal of a world under attack

Brian Maguire has turned his gaze and his anger on the social and ecological fallout from the destruction of the Amazonian rainforest

Wed Mar 01 2023 - 05:00

How the war in Ukraine met the war on woke

The culture wars have become part of today’s geopolitical struggles

Mon Jan 30 2023 - 16:38

Lula accuses Bolsonaro of genocide against Yanomami in Amazon

Justice minister vows to launch police investigation into suffering blamed on illegal mining and government neglect, as Bolsonaro calls allegations ‘left-wing farce’

Sun Jan 22 2023 - 17:45

Lula removes head of Brazilian army for allegedly stopping police from detaining rioters

Lula has removed at least 80 military officials from their jobs in his administration in the last five days

Sun Jan 22 2023 - 10:15

‘He was just chilling’: Bolsonaro settles in to life in Florida amid chaos in Brazil

Supporters gather outside house where former Brazilian president is staying while in exile in the US

Fri Jan 20 2023 - 15:30

Disruption in Brazil not just a copycat of 2021 Washington riots - nor is it clear that the outcome will be similar

Juliana de Albuquerque: Majority of Brazilians disagree with actions of rioters while American opinion far more evenly divided on violence of January 6th attack

Mon Jan 16 2023 - 00:00

Top Brazilian court includes Bolsonaro in capital riot investigation

Prosecutors cited a video that former president posted on Facebook two days after the January 8th riot

Sat Jan 14 2023 - 07:27

Brazil riots demonstrate democracy’s resilience not vulnerability

Failure of mob actions linked to Trump and Bolsonaro prove totalitarian alternatives may not be viable as the tide is turning

Sat Jan 14 2023 - 00:05

Bolsonaro’s administration was preparing to overturn his defeat, investigation reveals

Brazilian police discover draft of decree declaring a “state of defence”

Fri Jan 13 2023 - 16:13

Brazil’s Lula says coup bid will fail as he meets country’s governors

President works from his office as demonstrations supporting democracy are held in several cities nationwide

Tue Jan 10 2023 - 07:02

Lula moves to defuse extreme protests after farcical riot

Brazil’s president had been reluctant to clamp down on protests by supporters of Bolsonaro, but Sunday’s mayhem has brought a firm reaction

Mon Jan 09 2023 - 19:14

Brazilian police dismantle anti-government protest camps

At least 200 people arrested after thousands of Bolsonaro supporters storm government buildings

Mon Jan 09 2023 - 18:52

Bolsonaro supporters invade Brazil’s supreme court and presidential palace

Lula declares federal security intervention in the capital and says rioters will be punished

Sun Jan 08 2023 - 19:29

Lula tightens Brazil’s gun controls and curbs gold mining in Amazon

Newly elected president takes aim at Jair Bolsonaro’s legacy in first decrees

Mon Jan 02 2023 - 17:13

Lula sworn in as Brazil president amid tight security, as Bolsonaro skips ceremony

Hundreds of thousands of supporters descend on Brasília for leftwing leader’s inauguration

Sun Jan 01 2023 - 18:55

Brazil court fines Bolsonaro party after challenge to election defeat

Judge accuses Liberal Party of acting in ‘bad faith’ and trying to undermine country’s electronic voting system

Thu Nov 24 2022 - 07:24