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MYSTERIOUS: Bolsonaro - What They Never Told You

Trump fans in Brazil, Rubio honored, and other top photos from Latin America and the Caribbean

Bolsonaro backers paraded a Trump effigy ahead of Brazil’s general election. Ecuador honored Marco Rubio, while Argentines remembered the late singer Gilda. This gallery was curated by photo editor Leslie Mazoch, based in Mexico City.

The Independent UK

'Polarised Brazil': Lula remains a 'strong candidate' despite challenges of incumbency

François Picard is pleased to welcome Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos, Director of King’s Brazil Institute at the School of Global Affairs, King’s College London and Associate Professor in Brazil and Latin American Studies. According to Aruska, Brazil’s approaching elections can be viewed through competing prisms: macroeconomic performance and political…

France 24

‘I’ve been advised not to say certain things’: The Secret Agent makers on Oscars, dictators and death threats

The actor Wagner Moura and writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho explain how the Brazilian thriller mirrors their experiences of political corruption and why they are compelled to speak out

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Brazil’s Lula sanctions an increase in tax exemptions for low-income people

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has sanctioned a bill that exempts people earning up to 5,000 reais a month from income taxes

The Independent UK

Crowds cheer in Brasília after Bolsonaro convicted of coup attempt

Opponents of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro celebrated across Brasília on Thursday night after the Supreme Court sentenced him to more than 27 years in prison for attempting a coup.

Euronews

Scientists think they’ve found 300-year-old shipwreck with £15bn treasure on board

San Jose galleon, which sank in 1708, was loaded with gold, silver and emeralds worth billions

The Independent UK

Secrets of underground reptile colonies revealed after 250 million years

The findings confirm that communal living among land-living reptiles happened further back in time than we thought

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A "roadmap" for a new Trump resistance

The authors of “1/6: The Graphic Novel” on "how everyday people can work to restore and improve our democracy"

Salon

Brazilian Police Arrest Officers Plotting Coup And Assassinations

Brazil arrests officers planning coup to overthrow government post-2022 elections, implicating retired general and former President Bolsonaro. Ongoing inve...

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France's Macron visits Brazil to launch €1bn Amazon protection plan

French President Emmanuel Macron, who has criticized Brazil for not doing enough to protect the Amazon, is in the South American country for a three-day visit. Alongside President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, he'll launch a billion-euro green investment plan for the rainforest.

Radio France Internationale

What happens when you start trusting women? We have the receipts

The playwright V (formerly Eve Ensler) and a group of activists started a global movement for women’s rights in 1998. On V-Day’s 25th anniversary, they tell us what happened in their communities after they took action

The Guardian - US

‘Brazil was asleep’: as the rains come, hope reawakens for the Amazon

While the honeymoon mood created by the new government will run up against political reality, the euphoria is not blind

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The Independent UK

Lula ‘surprised by delayed call from Sunak’ in run up to Brazilian president’s inauguration

Lula is said to have spoken to Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron long before the UK prime minister

Salon

Essential reads on issues in the Amazon

The best reads on the nuanced issues in the Amazon — and who and what is causing it

The Guardian - AU

Nalini Malani: ‘Trump and Bolsonaro are totally phallic people – but there are men inclined to feminist thought’

The 76-year-old Indian artist reflects on the sectarian violence and misogyny that has inspired her work, including the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl

The Conversation

Ending Amazon deforestation: 4 essential reads about the future of the world's largest rainforest

Brazil’s president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was greeted with applause and cheers when he addressed the U.N. climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Nov. 16, 2022. As he had in his campaign, Lula pledged to stop rampant deforestation in the Amazon, which his predecessor, Jair Bolsanaro, had encouraged.

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The Conversation

Brazil: the new president inherits massive economic and environmental problems

The newly elected president of Brazil is an experienced politician, having already served two terms in the role. But Lula da Silva will take the reins of a country that looks very different from the one he presided over before.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Antisemitism’s ‘imaginary Jew’ is the target in Brazil’s pro-Bolsonaro, neo-Nazi demonstrations

While Kanye West’s deranged, antisemitic ramblings continue to draw global attention, a more insidious form of antisemitism has been making noise in South America, an antisemitism based on what one Brazilian academic calls “the imaginary Jew.”

Radio France Internationale

Lula takes back the top job in Brazil, defeating Bolsonaro

The polls were close, but left-wing Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva emerged triumphant in Brazil’s presidential election in the early hours of Monday, winning by less than two percent against Jair Bosonaro.

The Guardian - US

‘A clash of two Brazils’: presidential election divides voters – even gangsters

Criminals’ conflicting opinions reflect a broader fissure in Brazil as it approaches its most discordant runoff in decades

Benzinga

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The Guardian - UK

Brazil’s Lula headed for run-off with Bolsonaro – as it happened

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Reuters

Lula vows 'peace and love' for polarized Brazil in comeback attempt

Brazilian leftist Luis Inacio Lula da Silva is within reach of a dramatic comeback in Sunday's election, four years after the popular two-term president watched from a jail cell as his party was trounced in the last presidential campaign.

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