Brazil comes dangerously close to its Trump moment

Brazil comes dangerously close to its Trump moment

Politicians must stop playing partisan games and restore faith in democracy by quickly accepting the results of free and fair elections.

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Bolsonaro fails to concede but signals acceptance of loss to Lula
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Bolsonaro fails to concede but signals acceptance of loss to Lula

Bolsonaro’s chief of staff said the president had authorised him to begin the transition process with representatives of leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

  • byRicardo Brito
The world hopes Lula will save the Amazon. After Bolsonaro,it won’t be easy

The world hopes Lula will save the Amazon. After Bolsonaro,it won’t be easy

If its new president-elect keeps his promises to safeguard the rainforest,Brazil could have a major impact on the global fight against climate change.

  • byPaulina Villegas andSarah Kaplan
Despite ‘zero corruption’ claims,Bolsonaro now ‘worried about prison’

Despite ‘zero corruption’ claims,Bolsonaro now ‘worried about prison’

Bolsonaro and his inner circle have faced investigations on accusations including the embezzlement of public funds and theft of staff wages.

  • byFlávia Milhorance
Lula defeats incumbent Bolsonaro in stunning return to power in Brazil

Lula defeats incumbent Bolsonaro in stunning return to power in Brazil

It is a stunning return to power for Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva whose 2018 imprisonment over a corruption scandal sidelined him from that year’s election.

  • byMaurico Saverese andDiane Jeantet
Bolsonaro survives,takes Lula to a runoff for Brazilian presidency

Bolsonaro survives,takes Lula to a runoff for Brazilian presidency

The survival of Brazil’s right-wing president sets the stage for the most important vote in decades for Latin America’s largest nation.

  • byJack Nicas
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What to know about Brazil’s heated presidential election

What to know about Brazil’s heated presidential election

All major polls have the former president Lula up by at least 8 percentage points,though some indicate his lead is much wider.

  • byGram Slattery
World’s most important power shift? No,it’s not the British monarchy
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World’s most important power shift? No,it’s not the British monarchy

Brazil,the seventh most populous nation,goes to the polls this weekend. The result will have enormous implications for the world far beyond its borders.

  • byGeoffrey Robertson
Brazil’s Amazon records worst August fires since 2010

Brazil’s Amazon records worst August fires since 2010

The devastation generally caused by farmers lighting fires to clear land in drier months is more widespread than the blazes that set off global outrage in 2019.

  • byGabriel Araujo
Amazonian leaders get a choice:Join the narcos or run for your lives

Amazonian leaders get a choice:Join the narcos or run for your lives

A life-changing series of events kicked off when a man calling himself “Fernando” with a Colombian accent proposed making a huge payment to the remote Indigenous community.

  • bySimeon Tegel
Emperor of Brazil’s heart returns to country for a ‘state visit’

Emperor of Brazil’s heart returns to country for a ‘state visit’

The heart of the man who declared the Portuguese colony’s independence 200 years ago has been kept in an urn with formaldehyde in Portugal since his death.

  • byAnthony Boadle