The Latest Breaking News from Brazil

Lula da Silva has accused his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, of committing "genocide"

Brazil's severe drought and wildfires pose environmental and humanitarian challenges, requiring urgent action.

Ten years ago, in March 2014, prosecutors in the Brazilian city of Curitiba transformed a money laundering investigation into a historic anti-corruption probe known as Operação Lava Jato (Operation Car Wash). The probe uncovered evidence of corruption involving some of Brazil’s largest companies and most powerful politicians.

It is easy to get distracted by the barbs, swipes and bluster of the ongoing and very public spat between the world’s richest man and a fierce justice on Brazil’s highest court. Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X, posts regularly of his contempt for Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de…

Brazilian dog Floki is a footvolley star

October NY world sugar #11 (SBV24 ) Monday closed down -0.08 (-0.42%), and Oct London ICE white sugar #5 (SWV24 ) closed down -6.70 (-1.26%). Sugar prices Monday fell to 2-week lows and closed moderately lower on optimism that above-average monsoon rains in India will lead to a bumper sugar...

December arabica coffee (KCZ24 ) Monday closed up +9.40 (+3.98%), and November ICE robusta coffee (RMX24 ) closed up +121 (+2.54%). Coffee prices rallied sharply on Monday due to adverse global weather events that may curb coffee production. Dry conditions in Brazil, the world's largest producer of arabica coffee, are...

October NY world sugar #11 (SBV24 ) today is down -0.10 (-0.53%), and Oct London ICE white sugar #5 (SWV24 ) is down -6.10 (-1.14%). Sugar prices today slid to 2-week lows and are moderately lower on optimism that above-average monsoon rains in India will lead to a bumper sugar...

Illegal mining for critical minerals needed for the global renewable energy transition is increasingly driving deforestation in Indigenous lands in the Amazon.