Brazil officially opened its presidential election campaign season on Tuesday, sending the frontrunners – incumbent conservative President Jair Bolsonaro and socialist ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – to address large crowds of supporters and make their extremely different pitches on why they should run the country.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro officially launched his re-election campaign in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday with a fiery speech condemning communism, “stay at home” Chinese coronavirus protocols, and his top rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whom he referred to as an “ex-convict drunkard.”
Even as the U.S. Supreme Court was preparing to hand down its historic Dobbs decision on abortion law, Brazil was wrestling with a controversy revolving around an 11-year-old girl who was raped by a 13-year-old boy and sought an abortion.
Socialist Brazilian ex-president and current presidential frontrunner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is planning to marry his third wife-to-be on May 18 in an “ostentatious” nine-hour bash featuring high-end wines, a buffet with 11 types of cuisines, and a star-studded guest list.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro declared “war” on government oil company Petrobras during a live broadcast online on Thursday evening over what he called “absurd” profits that were tantamount to the “rape” of the Brazilian people.
Time Magazine revealed Brazil’s socialist former president, and current presidential frontrunner, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as its cover star on Wednesday, publishing a glowing interview profile branding Lula a “white knight” saving Brazil from incumbent conservative Jair Bolsonaro.
Brazilian ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a socialist running for president again this year after his judicial appointees overturned a 25-year prison sentence for corruption, used a campaign rally this weekend to promote the creation of a pan-American currency.
Conservatives flooded the streets of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Sunday for rallies in defense of free speech and family values and supporting President Jair Bolsonaro for re-election this year, far outpacing the small group of socialists gathered in Sao Paulo for an event marking May Day.
The state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, documented an 18-percent drop in homicides in the first three months of 2022 compared to the same timeframe a year ago, reports revealed Wednesday, resulting in the lowest numbers since 1991.
Conservatives in Brazil have announced a large rally for free speech and individual liberty in Sao Paulo scheduled for May 1, a holiday typically celebrated by Marxists known as “International Workers’ Day.”
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro led a caravan of between 10,000 to 15,000 people in Rio de Janeiro, local police estimated, by motorcycle on Sunday, the second such event this month.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s socialist former president recently cleared to run for president again despite a million-dollar corruption conviction, said in an interview published Wednesday he would run for president again only if he was all but guaranteed a win.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro took to the streets of the nation’s capital, Brasilia, on Sunday for a motorcycle ride attended by hundreds in honor of Mother’s Day.
Citizens in Curitiba, southern Brazil, organized a caravan protest in front of Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Justice Edson Fachin late Wednesday in response to the STF vacating corruption sentences against socialist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva this week.
A justice on Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), the nation’s top court, overturned the multiple convictions on charges of corruption against former socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Monday.
Former Brazilian Justice Minister Sergio Moro told Time magazine in an interview Friday that he left the government of President Jair Bolsonaro because he did not feel it was doing enough to fight corruption.
Brazilian prosecutors charged The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald on Tuesday with cybercrimes for allegedly publishing what were deemed as “hacked” text messages of Jair Bolsonaro administration officials, according to the New York Times.
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Conservative leaders in Brazil expressed deep discontent at the Supreme Court’s decision to free criminal socialist ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva this week — and warned the ruling sets the table to free as many as 200,000 convicted murderers, rapists, and other criminals nationwide.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the former Brazilian socialist president sentenced to decades in prison over extensive corruption while in office, will hit the campaign trail now that he is free, Brazil’s O Globo reported Monday.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed a decree on Thursday banning the setting of fires to clear land for farmers and other economic activities for the next two months.
Thousands of Brazilians hit the streets on Sunday in support of Justice Minister Sergio Moro, scheduled to testify to the lower chamber of Brazil’s Congress on Tuesday after reports accused him of improper bias while acting as a judge in the nationwide anti-corruption campaign known as “Operation Car Wash.”
Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered the censorship Monday of a report published by the magazine Crusoé alleging that current Supreme Court President Dias Toffoli was involved in corrupt dealings with the construction firm Obredecht.
The Brazilian court in charge of prosecutions over the corruption scandal known as “Operation Car Wash” sentenced former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the socialist Workers’ Party (PT) to 12 years and 11 months in prison on Wednesday for using government contractors to renovate a vacation property.
Violence continued to rage across the northern Brazilian state of Ceara this weekend, in what is widely seen as the first litmus test of President Jair Bolsonaro’s crackdown on violent crime.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s chief of staff Onyx Lorenzoni told reporters following a cabinet meeting Thursday that Bolsonaro intends to fire any “communists” who work for the government currently, contending that those holding opposing ideological views to the new government cannot properly execute its goals.
Brazil’s President-elect Jair Bolsonaro announced Wednesday that his administration will grant political asylum to Cuban doctors forced to work in the country for the dictatorship’s profit, reversing the policy his socialist predecessor imposed on them.
Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro claimed he would do “everything legally in my power” to authorize the extradition of Italian Marxist terrorist Cesare Battisti, given asylum under socialist administrations, in remarks Wednesday.
The Colombian government denied claims on Wednesday that the country is plotting an invasion of neighboring Venezuela, amid reports that the two countries are considering working together to overthrow Nicolás Maduro’s socialist dictatorship by force.
Former Brazilian Lula Da Silva urged supporters of his socialist Workers Party (PT) on Monday to stay calm and not rush to judgment about what President-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s leadership will entail, according to reports.
Brazil President-elect Jair Bolsonaro told various media outlets on Monday that he hopes to find a place in the highest levels of his government for Judge Sergio Moro, the judge responsible for dozens of arrests of politicians in “Operation Car Wash.”
Supporters of Brazil’s president-elect Jair Bolsonaro mocked supporters of socialist rival Fernando Haddad on Sunday evening, urging them to move to Cuba if they prefer a leftist government.
“Jair Bolsonaro being president was a ridiculous proposition two years ago,” wrote Igor Gielow in Brazil’s Folha de Sao Paulo on Sunday about the president-elect.
Brazilians elected Jair Bolsonaro of the right-wing Social Liberal Party (PSL) their new president Sunday, granting him a double-digit lead over socialist opponent Fernando Haddad.
Brazilian presidential candidate Fernando Haddad of the socialist Workers’ Party (PT) said in an interview Monday that that “probably, yes” there were political allies of his who illegally used campaign funds while in office, once again forced to discuss allegations of widespread corruption within the PT.
Brazil’s House of Representatives will soon feature over double the number of representatives with military experience than it did before Sunday’s election. According to a tally by Folha de Sao Paulo, 22 members of the lower chamber are either veterans or retired military personnel.
Fernando Haddad, the socialist Workers’ Party (PT) candidate for president in Brazil, made his first public act since securing a spot in this month’s run-off election a visit to prison on Monday, where PT leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is serving a 12-year prison sentence for corruption.
Conservative candidate Jair Bolsonaro won the first round of Brazil’s presidential election Sunday, securing the top spot against socialist Fernando Haddad in a run-off race scheduled for October 28.
Brazil’s conservative presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro reached 39 percent support in a poll released Thursday, a new high placing him 14 points ahead of the second place candidate just three days from the national election.
Brazil’s conservative presidential frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro appears to be gaining support from voters typically considered loyal to the socialist Workers’ Party (PT) and could now feasibly win enough votes to prevent a second round run-off, polls this week showed.
Thousands of left-wing protesters took the streets of dozens of cities across the country Saturday to oppose Brazilian presidential frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro, triggering similarly populated rallies in support for the candidate nationwide on Sunday.
