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Lula reinstates commission to probe Brazil dictatorship crimes

05-07-2024 17:16 President Lula orders reinstatement of a special commission on crimes during Brazil's 1964-1985 military dictatorship, which had been dissolved by his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.

Milei chooses bath of conservative affection and rebuffs Mercosur

05-07-2024 11:33 President prefers a safe conservative conference in Brazil to a trip to Asunción for the Mercosur summit and a meeting with Lula.

Brazil asks Argentina for help in locating Bolsonaro coup fugitives

13-06-2024 09:23 Brazil has asked Argentina for help in locating the possible presence of more than 140 individuals it says are fugitives from justice.

Argentina tells Brazil it knows nothing about Brasília coup fugitives

10-06-2024 14:24 Authorities in Argentina have denied the alleged presence of some 60 Brazilian fugitives from justice in its territory.

Bolsonaro’s shadow looms over a revamp of the Brazilian right

08-01-2024 09:52 A tear after Brazil riots, Bolsonaro’s right-wing movement seeks a rebrand.

Milei meets with Bolsonaro in Buenos Aires ahead of inauguration

08-12-2023 14:38 Argentina's Javier Milei receives former Brazil president Jair Bolsonaro in Buenos Aires ahead of president-elect's inauguration on Sunday.

Milei’s followers stir up spectre of fraud on social networks

09-11-2023 10:21 Echoing the elections of Donald Trump in the United States and Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Argentina now becomes the latest country to battle unfounded electoral fraud claims.

Eduardo Bolsonaro draws the eye at Milei’s bunker

23-10-2023 14:58 Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsaron, was invited to Argentina by La Libertad Avanza for election night, underlying the support and comparisons between the two right-wing camps.

by Giselle Leclercq

Bolsonaro's political future at stake in Brazil trial

22-06-2023 11:26 Jair Bolsonaro faces make-or-break trial in Brazilian courts that could determine the former president's political future and stoke uncertainty.

With bows and spears, Brazilian indigenous 'warriors' defend the Amazon

09-06-2023 18:20 Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon: indigenous "warriors of the forest" take a stand with bows and spears, confronting illegal activities and defending their land and resources.

Illegal mining booms in Brazilian Amazon 'promised land'

09-05-2023 16:15 Illegal mines, pulling resources from protected lands in the Amazon, make around US$800 per metric ton of copper they sell on the black market, incentivising the risky trade.

Far-right wins most seats on Chile's constitution rewrite body

08-05-2023 10:58 Chile's far-right Republican Party finished in first place Sunday in a nationwide vote to choose the 50 members of a committee that will draft a replacement to the country's dictatorship-era constitution.

Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro testifies on January 8 riots

26-04-2023 11:35 Former Brazilian far-right president Jair Bolsonaro appears before federal police on to testify on anti-government riots by his supporters on January 8.

Brazil's Lula visits Europe amid row over Ukraine comments

20-04-2023 15:21 Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva heads to Europe as row with Western nations over his recent comments on the Ukraine war rumbles on.

Bold talk, slow walk as Brazil's Lula sets out to save Amazon

10-04-2023 12:46 Environmentalists call for Lula to put his money where his mouth is by ramping up funding to protect the Amazon

Mixed results for Brazil's Lula in first 100 days

06-04-2023 13:51 Lula's approval rating has taken a hit over last three months after a series of gaffes and a public spat with the central bank over interest rates.

Brazil’s faltering economy endangers Lula’s ‘barbecue and beer’ promise

03-03-2023 12:47 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva promised to bring prosperity back — “barbecue and beer” for all — if he returned to Brazil’s top job. Two months into his presidency, the economy he inherited is cutting his honeymoon short.

Brazil's economy grew 2.9% in 2022

02-03-2023 12:12 Argentina's giant neighbour grew 2.9% in 2022, according to data released Thursday by the Brazilian Institute of Statistics.

Biden and Lula put on pro-democracy show under Bolsonaro’s shadow

10-02-2023 11:09 Joe Biden hosts his counterpart Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the White House Friday in a show of support for Brazilian democracy, shaken last month by a right-wing insurrection akin to the invasion of the US Capitol in 2021. The elephant in the room: former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro, who's been vacationing in Florida since December 30.

US, Brazil to seek reset with Biden-Lula meeting

08-02-2023 17:18 The US and Brazil will seek to reset ties this week when President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva travels to Washington to meet Joe Biden, both keen to turn the page on the Jair Bolsonaro years.