Jair Bolsonaro

As leader, Bolsonaro would assume control of an economy that is heavily dependent on China — by far Brazil’s largest trading partner

Brazilian students in Rio de Janeiro march against the prospect of another Bolsonaro presidency

With three weeks to go until Brazil’s presidential runoff, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva finds himself in a weaker position than he — or most pollsters — had expected

Brazilian Stocks Soar on as Flávio Bolsonaro Pulls Ahead in First Election Round

The Bolsonaros’ success in Sunday’s elections shows how the conservative movement the eldest Bolsonaro built is becoming the dominant political force across this nation of more than 200 million people

Brazilian Stocks Soar on as Flávio Bolsonaro Pulls Ahead in First Election Round

Brazil holds the world’s second-largest reserves but produced less than 1 percent of global output last year

Thomas Giuffra told CNN that people had threatened to silence or harm her if she did not withdraw her civil lawsuit ⁠alleging that several members of a Cornell fraternity had drugged and raped her in 2024

German Chancellor Friedriz Merz's visit to Ukraine was met with Russian missiles as he pledged €1.3 billion to Kyiv

Thomas Giuffra told CNN that people had threatened to silence or harm her if she did not withdraw her civil lawsuit ⁠alleging that several members of a Cornell fraternity had drugged and raped her in 2024

A campaign flag depicting Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is running for reelection, is waved during a campaign event on streets in Brasilia, Brazil

A campaign flag depicting Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is running for reelection, is waved during a campaign event on streets in Brasilia, Brazil

Polls show Lula ahead in the first round and the two men statistically tied in a likely October 25 runoff

Standing atop a truck equipped with loudspeakers on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach, Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro officially launched his campaign, addressing the inevitable comparison with the man whose footsteps he is trying to follow

He is also seen as a proxy for Donald Trump who cited “politically motivated persecution” of the father in slapping a 40 per cent duty on Brazilian goods

Attorney General Jorge Messias called for the probe on Thursday, one day after the British newspaper The Guardian published a story suggesting that the administration of United States President Donald Trump planned to award $1m to right-wing civil groups opposing the Brazilian Supreme Court

Brazil’s leftist leader has unusually put military spending at the heart of his campaign

Nobody in Brazil thinks that Flávio Bolsonaro is his own man

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and right-wing leader Flavio Bolsonaro appear to be locked in a tight race for the top post in the country

Right-wing candidates aligned with Washington have won the past seven elections in the region, with Mr. Trump explicitly endorsing the winner in two of them

On 1 January 2023, a few hours after being sworn in for his third stint as Brazil’s president, a ravenous Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sneaked away from a celebratory cocktail party packed with politicians and diplomats to grab a snack with one of his oldest friends

Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has signed an order banning fixed-odds sports betting just over a week before the first round of the presidential election, in a move he said was designed to tackle the pervasive problem of families falling into debt

Former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro is playing a key role in her stepson’s presidential campaign

Two weeks before a tight presidential election, Brazil’s leading candidates have turned Javier Milei’s Argentina into a proxy for their own clashing economic visions

Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has announced a 15% increase in the country’s main cash-transfer programme for poor families, as well as free weight-loss jabs, prompting criticism from opponents who say the moves are electorally motivated just two weeks before the presidential election

Minutes later, a third judge, Gilmar Mendes, angrily accused Mendonça of weaponizing the court’s work to cause political chaos and influence October’s presidential election

A giant banner of Brazil’s incarcerated former president Jair Bolsonaro fluttered in the morning breeze as his eldest son, Flávio, touched down at an airfield on the fringe of a city that will soon help decide the future of one of the biggest democracies on earth

Just weeks before the vote, Brazilian presidential hopeful Flavio Bolsonaro's campaign is being rocked by revelations he is under investigation for alleged corruption and money laundering

Chief-Justice Luiz Edson Fachin ordered the cancellation Thursday, reconvening for Tuesday, when the court is not usually in session

Mendonca, appointed by former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, has accused Rodrigues and Almada of producing six illegal reports on the activities of justices

Seeking a fourth term in what is his seventh campaign, leftist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has in recent months been schooling senator Flávio Bolsonaro, his less experienced rival, in how to grind out a win

Brazil's Supreme Court plunged further into an institutional crisis on Friday, with two of its best known justices now requesting major sanctions against each other

Part presidential bid, part personal vendetta, it’s a political storyline so juicy that Netflix executives are likely hard at work already figuring out who to cast in the eight-part dramatized documentary

Surveillance footage showed two men dressed as delivery riders and wearing helmets open fire on Beller on Monday night outside a hotel in Santa Cruz de la Sierra

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva launched his final re-election campaign at Primeiro de Maio stadium in Sao Bernardo do Campo

His similar insulting remarks before had already chilled relations between the two neighbors

State Department retaliates against Brasilia over delayed envoy approval as fractious relationship is again tested

Election seen as pivotal for Latin America as bots, tariffs and allies test Brazil

Milei also referred to -- without naming him directly -- Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes as "bald trash."

October election will see incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva contend with Trump ally Senator Flavio Bolsonaro

Far-right firebrand Jair Bolsonaro anointed his eldest son Flavio as his political heir after being sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup following his 2022 election loss to Lula

The Brazilian presidency condemned on July 16 the United States' decision to impose 25 percent tariffs on certain Brazilian products

Bolsonaro is currently under house arrest in the capital Brasilia, where he is serving a 27-year sentence for attempting a coup after his 2022 electoral defeat to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Family Feud Poses Fresh Risk to Flavio Bolsonaro’s Brazil Presidential Bid

Wednesday’s remarks came after both Lula and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, attended the Group of 7 (G7) conference in Evian-les-Bains, France

Eduardo Bolsonaro, 41, was charged last year with lobbying US authorities to help the ex-president by imposing tariffs or sanctions on Brazil

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is using the proposed 25 per cent tariffs on Brazilian imports to attack his main rival in this year’s election, Flávio Bolsonaro, whom he accused of betraying the country by urging the US to take measures against Brazil

The administration also cited Brazil’s restrictions on access to its ethanol market, and what it described as inadequate enforcement of anti-deforestation laws

The condemnation came in a 435-word message posted to Lula’s social media platforms on Friday

Trump Meets Brazilian Candidate Flávio Bolsonaro at White House

Deforestationin the Amazon alone fell by 23.5 percent, while reductions were recorded across Brazils six major ecosystems

Bolsonaro’s poll numbers take a hit from scandal over disgraced banker Daniel Vorcaro’s US$24 million film funding pledge

On Saturday, Datafolha, the polling firm for the Grupo Folha media conglomerate, released its latest numbers, tracking the candidates’ progress in the run-up to October’s generation election

But this week that production was entangled in a scandal rocking the very establishment it meant to denounce

Flávio Bolsonaro, Brazil’s leading rightwing presidential hopeful, has been caught on tape asking a banker accused of corruption for $26.8m (£20m) to fund a film about his father, the former president Jair Bolsonaro