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Brazil and Argentina’s presidents have launched discussions on a common currency, but their plans are nothing like the euro, which replaced national currencies like the lira, franc and deutsche mark entirely. What’s on the table is a common unit for commercial transactions, part of a larger strategy by recently elected Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to boost trade and restore Brazil’s traditional influence in the region, which sagged under his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro. Yet Lula’s plans come at a d

Argentina and Brazil are in early talks to create a common currency, as part of a coordinated bid to reduce reliance on the U.S. dollar.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva fired Brazil's army chief on Saturday. Lula has said that some in the military allowed the Jan. 8 uprising in the capital by far-right protesters.

Brazil’s president has fired the army chief amid concerns over threats to the country’s democracy following the Jan. 8 uprising in the capital by far-right protesters

Brazil's president has fired the army chief after the leftist leader openly said some military members allowed the Jan. 8 uprising in the capital by far-right protesters.

Brazil’s government has declared a public health emergency for the Yanomami people in the Amazon who are suffering from malnutrition and diseases such as malaria as a consequence of illegal mining.

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited Brazil's northern state of Roraima on Saturday after the government declared a public health emergency for the Yanomami people in the Amazon, who are suffering from malnutrition and diseases such as malaria as a consequence of illegal mining. At the state capital, Boa Vista, Lula said the way the Yanomami are treated is inhumane.

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has authorized adding former President Jair Bolsonaro in its investigation into who incited the Jan. 8 riot in the nation’s capital.

The backers are mostly transportation firms and small businesses based in the south and southeast, strongholds of former president Jair Bolsonaro.

The rioters who stormed Brazil's capital buildings on Sunday used coded language on social media to coordinate and carry out their plans in plain view.

Brazil's newest administration bolstered security nationwide after calls were renewed for pro-Bolsonaro protestors to 'retake power' days after violent protests on capital.

Just like with Donald Trump's defeat in 2020, supporters of Jair Bolsanaro used social media, particularly Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, to fuel the anger that exploded on Sunday in Brasilia.

In his first full day as Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was meeting with Latin American heads of state reflecting the region’s desire for the country to assume a greater role on the international stage.

Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been sworn in as president in the capital, Brasilia, assuming office for the third time after thwarting outgoing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro’s reelection bid.

Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday Sonia Guajajara as the nation’s first Indigenous person to head up a ministry.

Brazil´s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced Thursday that Amazon activist Marina Silva will be the country´s next minister of environment.

From Brazil to Germany to New Zealand, social democrats and even outright socialists are addressing voters’ widespread longing for reassurance.

Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is unveiling some of the faces that will comprise his incoming administration, including his much-awaited pick for finance minister: former Sao Paulo mayor Fernando Haddad.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk posted on his platform that it is "possible" Twitter personnel interfered in Brazil's election to help left wing candidates.

The outsourcing hub is attracting both makers and testers of games even though the local gambling market remains largely untapped.

The day before U.N. climate talks were to end, negotiators from around the world appeared to be far apart on any deal to combat climate change

The day before U.N. climate talks were to end, negotiators from around the world appeared to be far apart on any deal to combat climate change.

Brazil’s defense ministry has released a report highlighting flaws in electoral systems and proposing improvements.

Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leads the 'march of victory', in Sao Paulo, Brazil Oct. 29. Photo: Carla Carniel/ReutersBy Lee H. HamiltonWatching Brazil’s presidential election from the U.S. has been like looking into a funhouse mirror. According to official results, challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ousted the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, and will take office Jan. 1. Brazil’s election reflected deep divisions between supporters of da Silva, a fiery former labor leader, and Bolsonaro, the bombastic right-wing president. Brazil has a lot in common with the U.S. and it’s not surprising that Brazil’s politics mirror our own.

President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s transition has added a team of economists that includes at least two members likely to allay market worries about potential business and financial policies the incoming leftist leader might be considering.

The president described the protests as a fair expression of “indignation" and "injustice.” That was all the encouragement many bolsonaristas needed.

The president had still not accepted defeat more than 36 hours after official results showed his leftist challenger narrowly won the election.

The leftist leader's presidency means "a return to policies to save the Amazon," as he pledges to cut deforestation to zero and set new emissions targets.

Lula is back, but the struggles ahead, from healing deep social cleavages to fixing Brazil’s fiscal woes, should not be underestimated.

Brazil's usually boisterous president is staying uncharacteristically quiet after losing his reelection bid.

After casting his vote for in Brazil’s presidential election in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, incumbent Jair Bolsonaro was hoisting a silver trophy into the air alongside newly crowned soccer champions.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has done it again: Twenty years after first winning the Brazilian presidency, the leftist defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro Sunday in an extremely tight election that marks an about-face for the country after four years of far-right politics.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are making their final appeals for support ahead of Sunday’s presidential runoff vote.

With the presidential runoff days away, grubby campaign tactics and a police shoot-out with a vocal supporter of incumbent Jair Bolsonaro raise the risk of a messy denouement.

In the best case, the winner of Sunday’s presidential runoff will avoid making the country’s problems worse.

Brazil’s runoff presidential election on Sunday pits two larger-than-life figures representing opposite ends of the political spectrum: the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who ruled the country from 2003 to 2010. Lula outperformed Bolsonaro during the first round of voting, 48% to 43%, but fell short of the outright victory that some had predicted. The outcome of the runoff will have profound implications for Latin America’s biggest and most populous nation.

Brazil’s runoff presidential election on Sunday pits two larger-than-life figures representing opposite ends of the political spectrum: the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who ruled the country from 2003 to 2010. Lula outperformed Bolsonaro during the first round of voting, 48% to 43%, but fell short of the outright victory that some had predicted. The outcome of the runoff will have profound implications for Latin America’s biggest and most populous nation.

On Sunday, Brazilians are choosing between two futures.

Across Latin America, the most relevant political debates no longer pit the proletariat against the bourgeoisie.

Brazilian voters are being bombarded by online misinformation, less than a week before they pick their next leader.

Brazil's runoff election Sunday pits incumbent right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro against left-wing former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Brazil is days from an historic presidential election featuring two political titans and bitter rivals that could usher in another four years of far-right politics or return a leftist to the nation’s top job.

Brazil’s runoff presidential election on Oct. 30 pits two larger-than-life figures representing opposite ends of the political spectrum: the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who ruled the country from 2003 to 2010. Lula outperformed Bolsonaro during the first round of voting, 48% to 43%, but fell short of the outright victory that some had predicted. The outcome of the runoff will have profound implications for Latin America’s biggest and most populous nation.

A jury on Tuesday acquitted a think tank analyst accused of lying to the FBI about his role in the creation of a discredited dossier about former President Donald Trump.

Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and incumbent Jair Bolsonaro have clashed in their first one-on-one debate, two weeks before the presidential election’s runoff.

You can’t just blame globalization for liberalism’s decline. Populist authoritarians have risen because the liberal political class got too comfortable to address voters’ frustrations.

The presidential hopeful has proved that deforestation can be prevented in the Amazon, but only at the expense of declaring open season elsewhere.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are starting to bring centrist allies to their camps as they campaign for their runoff election.

Sunday is election day in Brazil.

Brazil’s top two presidential candidates will face each other in a runoff vote after neither got enough support to win outright in an election to decide if the country returns a leftist to the helm of the world’s fourth-largest democracy or keeps the far-right incumbent in office.

When federal judge Sergio Moro resigned to enter politics, many in Brazil believed the anti-corruption crusader who jailed a popular former president could someday occupy the nation’s most powerful office.

Brazil’s first-round presidential election on Sunday pits two larger-than-life figures representing opposite ends of the political spectrum: the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who ruled the country from 2003 to 2010. While there are nine other contenders in the race, none has a realistic chance of winning. The election outcome will have profound implications for Latin America’s biggest and most populous nation.

Nearly a dozen candidates are running in Brazil’s presidential election but only two stand a chance of reaching a runoff: former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.

Brazil’s leader said last month he would respect any election outcome come October, if voting is clean. That still leaves plenty of risk.

Brazil’s presidential election in October has become a riveting head-to-head contest between two larger-than-life figures representing opposite ends of the political spectrum: the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who ruled the country from 2003 to 2010. While there are nine other contenders in the race, none has a realistic chance of winning. The election outcome will have profound implications for Latin America’s biggest and most-populous nation.

Da Silva has consistently been polling ahead of Bolsonaro, although some recent polls have shown the far-right former army captain narrowing the deficit.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro summoned his supporters into the streets to challenge the voting system ahead of October's election.

Brazil’s president needs to sway middle-class women and evangelical voters to move up the polls in time for October’s election. Can the first lady help?

Brazil’s presidential election in October is shaping up to be a riveting head-to-head contest between two larger-than-life figures representing opposite ends of the political spectrum: the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who ruled the country from 2003 to 2010. While there are 10 other contenders in the race, none has a realistic chance of winning. The election outcome will have profound implications for South America’s biggest and most-populous nation.

Rio police said the criminal gang in Morro do Alemão dressed in military uniforms and used civilians as human shields.

The chief executive of Brazil’s state-run oil giant Petrobras resigned amid political pressure from top lawmakers and President Jair Bolsonaro.

Brazil’s former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has made the effective launch of his presidential campaign with a bid to lure centrists into helping him unseat incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro in the October election.

The country faces big structural challenges. Neither Bolsonaro nor Lula has shown much willingness to tackle them.

Regardless of who ultimately wins, a tightening and ugly race between two deeply polarizing politicians will test the resilience of the country’s democratic institutions.

Allegations that two evangelical pastors have used their influence with Brazil’s Education Ministry to steer federal funding to friends are causing an election-year scandal for the government of President Jair Bolsonaro

President Jair Bolsonaro’s backward policies have accelerated the brain drain from Latin America’s biggest economy.

Pivotal elections, referendums, reforms and geopolitical tensions could shape the economic trajectory across emerging markets this year.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has suffered a major defeat in Congress when Brazilian lawmakers rejected a proposal to require printed receipts at some electronic ballot boxes.

Brazil’s military has staged an unusual convoy of troops and armored vehicles through the capital.

The coronavirus has taken a heavy toll among Roman Catholic priests and nuns around the world, killing hundreds of them in a handful of the hardest-hit countries alone.

About 52 percent respondents felt that Bolsonaro is doing ‘terrible’ job

Anti-government protesters have taken to the streets in more than a score of cities across Brazil as the nation’s confirmed death toll from COVID-19 soared past half a million.

(AP Photo/Andre Penner)RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that former judge Sergio Moro was biased in the way he oversaw former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s corruption trial, providing vindication for the leftist leader who has long claimed political persecution. The decision further darkens the shadow over the reputation of Moro and the sweeping Car Wash corruption investigation he presided over for years. Leaked messages published by The Intercept Brasil in 2019 showed apparent collusion between Moro and Car Wash prosecutors during the process that ultimately jailed da Silva for corruption and money laundering. Da Silva is universally known as Lula in Brazil. The justices didn’t rule whether evidence gathered previously could be used when retrying da Silva’s other conviction, or in his other two unresolved criminal cases.

(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)DURHAM, N.C. -- Duke University issued a quarantine order for all of its undergraduates effective Saturday night due to a coronavirus outbreak caused by students who attended recruitment parties, the school said. The university said in a statement that all undergraduate students will be forced to stay-in-place until at least March 21. Suspension or dismissal from the school are potential punishments for “flagrant or repeat violators.”Over the past week, the school has reported more than 180 positive coronavirus cases among students. AdItaly has now tallied some 3.2 million cases in the pandemic. The COVAX alliance aims to share COVID-19 vaccines with more than 90 lower and middle-income nations.

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks at the Metalworkers Union headquarters in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, Wednesday, March 10, 2021, after a judge threw out both of his corruption convictions. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)SAO PAULO – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva criticized incumbent Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday for the government's failings in the COVID-19 pandemic and the economy, but avoided giving out hints on whether he will make another run for the presidency next year. “Do not be afraid of me,” da Silva said in a press conference at the metalworkers’ union he once headed in Sao Bernardo do Campo, outside Sao Paulo, arguing political dialogue must be restored despite Brazil's divisions. Supreme Court Justice Luiz Edson Fachin annulled two convictions against da Silva arguing the cases were tried in the wrong jurisdiction. AdFachin said in his ruling that da Silva's cases don't have any relationship with Petrobras, as lawyers of the president have argued for years.

FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2020 file photo, Brazilian former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrives for a meeting with the Italian Cgil union, in Rome. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)SAO PAULO – A top judge has thrown out both corruption convictions of former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, opening the way for a possible battle against conservative incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in next year’s elections. Bolsonaro quickly responded to the court ruling, calling the administration of da Silva's Workers' Party “catastrophic. AdAs news of the ruling broke, chants of “Lula livre!” — “Lula free!” — and recordings of jingles from his presidential campaigns echoed from windows in some cities. “Fachin knows that his decision basically means Lula will not be punished, but he wants to save whatever is left of Car Wash,” Badaró said.

FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2020 file photo, Brazilian former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrives for a meeting with the Italian Cgil union, in Rome. Da Silva still faces other prosecutions in Brasilia, but those are far from any final decision. Da Silva has been sentenced to 12 years and seven months for allegedly receiving an apartment worth about $1 million as a bribe from construction company OAS. Da Silva has always denied ownership of the apartment. With da Silva out, conservative lawmaker Bolsonaro won the election handily.

Da Silva walked out of the prison Friday, less than a day after the Supreme Court ruled that a person can be imprisoned only after all the appeals have been exhausted. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)CURITIBA Former Brazilian President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva's release from jail has fired up the weakened leftist opposition, though it's likely to anger conservatives who considered his incarceration proof the country was finally serious about ending corruption. Hundreds of red-shirted Brazilians applauded the 74-year-old politician Friday as he walked out of a federal police building. His release came less than a day after the Supreme Court ruled a person can be imprisoned only after all appeals have been exhausted. Da Silva's 2018 jailing drove the two sides of Brazil's already polarized society even further apart, and his release is set to reignite tensions.

(AP Photo/Leo Correa)SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO Former Brazilian President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva has arrived at a union headquarters, a day after being released from prison. Da Silva was expected to give an address Saturday at the headquarters of the Metalworkers' Union near Sao Paulo. Da Silva once led the union, which served as the base for his political career. Da Silva was released from prison Friday after the Supreme Court ruled a person can be imprisoned only after all appeals to higher courts have been exhausted. Da Silva is still appealing his conviction related to the alleged purchase of a beachfront apartment.

A supporter of Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds up a mask of Da Silva outside the Federal Police headquarters where the former leader is imprisoned in Curitiba, Brazil, Friday, Nov. 8, 2019. Da Silva has been detained since April 2018 after being convicted of corruption. WHAT WAS DA SILVA CONVICTED OF? Its former CEO said the apartment was reserved for Da Silva. Da Silva appealed his conviction but it was upheld last year, and he was put behind bars in April 2018.

Supporters of jailed former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, celebrate a Supreme Court decision that may free Da Silva, outside Brazil's Supreme Court, in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. Brazil's top court has reached a narrow decision that could release almost 5,000 inmates that are still appealing their convictions, including Da Silva. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)SAO PAULO The Latest on Brazilian former President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva (all times local):4:30 p.m.Brazil's former President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva is set to walk out of prison after a judge ordered his release. Da Silva has been detained since April 2018 after being convicted of corruption and money laundering. The decision appears to cover Da Silva, whose attorneys said they will request his release Friday.

A supporter holds a doll depicting jailed former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, outside Brazil'sSupreme Court in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2019. The decision could affect cases like that of Da Silva. Da Silva had been favored to win the 2018 presidential election, but his conviction prohibited him from running. Right-leaning protesters have used social media in recent weeks to attack justices who cast votes that could allow Da Silva to walk out of prison. In addition to Da Silva, Brazil's justice council estimates at least 4,895 prisoners stand to benefit from the decision.

Brazils highest court reached a narrow decision that could release almost 5,000 inmates who are still appealing their convictions, including jailed former President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)CURITIBA Lawyers for Brazil's former President Luiz Incio Lula da Silva have begun legal procedures requesting his release from prison. The move follows a Supreme Court decision late Thursday that a person can be imprisoned only after all appeals to higher courts have been exhausted. Da Silva is appealing the case that put him behind bars. Da Silva, who governed from 2003 to 2010, says the case against him was politically motivated.

The Supreme Court will resume debate over if its legal (as is done currently) to jail a person who fails to overturn their conviction in a higher court. Da Silva had been favored to win the 2018 presidential election, but his conviction prohibited him from running. They hope Da Silva's sentence is annulled later this month in another Supreme Court debate over whether Moro was unbiased when he delivered his rulings. Attacks on the Supreme Court's ruling will doubtless feature loudly, with the prospect of Da Silva's release already looming. In addition to the former president, at least 4,895 prisoners stand to benefit from the decision, Brazil's justice council estimates.