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Lula threatens 50% tariff on US goods in retaliation for Trump levy on Brazil

Brazilian president says ‘if he charges us 50%, we’ll charge him 50%’ after Trump cited trial of Bolsonaro to justify tariff

The Guardian - US · Jul 10, 2025

Tariff Vengeance

Plus: Prime sales slumping, Hill Country flood victim search continues, Diocese of San Bernardino takes on ICE, and more...

Reason · Jul 10, 2025

Trump tariffs goods from Brazil at 50%, citing ‘witch hunt’ trial against country’s former president

Brazil’s prosecutor-general has filed charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro for attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat.

Euronews · Jul 10, 2025

‘Terrible thing’: Trump defends Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro against coup trial

Both right-wing leaders have faced legal action for allegedly attempting to overturn their election losses.

Al Jazeera · Jul 7, 2025

Trump says Bolsonaro ‘not guilty of anything’ amid Brazil coup trial

President Lula rejects foreign ‘interference’ as Trump claims far-right former leader victim of ‘witch-hunt’

The Guardian - US · Jul 7, 2025

Bolsonaro wanted to exterminate us, claims Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire

Kayapó chief tells in memoir of seeing former president in his dreams and of warning Lula not to repeat past mistakes

The Guardian - UK · Jul 7, 2025

‘God chose you, Jair Bolsonaro!’ Is Brazil now in the grip of evangelicals?

From TV soaps to the supreme court to the top job, Christian fundamentalists are on a power-grab in the country. We meet the director of Apocalypse in the Tropics, a new film charting their rise

The Guardian - UK · Jul 7, 2025

Nations are increasingly ‘playing the field’ when it comes to US and China – a new book explains explains why ‘active nonalignment’ is on the march

In 2020, as Latin American countries were contending with the triple challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, a global economic shock and U.S. policy under the first Trump administration, Jorge Heine, research professor at Boston University and a former Chilean ambassador, in association with two colleagues, Carlos Fortin and Carlos Ominami,…

The Conversation · Jul 7, 2025

Brics summit in Brazil tries to reinvent collective approach to world’s problems

President Lula rebukes wealthy countries for retreating on climate and trade but bloc is divided and unbalanced

The Guardian - UK · Jul 7, 2025

BRICS group slams tariffs and Iran conflict at summit in Brazil

BRICS leaders are set to discuss key global political issues, but questions over the bloc’s unity have arisen as Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have opted to skip the summit.

Euronews · Jul 6, 2025