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Colombia’s government has applied to join a China-based development bank

Brazil's ex-president Jair Bolsonaro, who has been ordered to stand trial on charges of plotting a coup, is the latest leader of Latin America's biggest economy to face court proceedings.

Much has changed already under Lula da Silva’s presidency, but this vast country does not receive the attention it deserves

A deliberate attempt by the Shanghai-based New Development Bank to reduce dependency on the US is to offer loans.

After his swearing-in ceremony earlier this year, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva walked up the ramp to the presidential palace arm in arm with one of the world’s most famous Indigenous leaders

The writing was on the wall. But when Brazil's left-wing president Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva visited China recently, he flamboyantly underscored economic and security ties between Latin America's largest democracy and the world's largest dictatorship. Significantly he took steps to decouple much of Brazil's vibrant commerce from using the…

The two countries have recently announced a deal to trade in their own currencies, dropping the dollar as an intermediary.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has praised the Shanghai-based New Development Bank (NDB) on his trip to China, saying it "frees emerging countries from submission to traditional financial institutions". The NDB was created by the BRICS group and is headed by his predecessor Dilma Rousseff. Meanwhile in Washington,…

Dilma Rousseff will helm the Shanghai-headquartered New Development Bank, which was set up to finance projects in emerging markets and developing countries