The Latest Breaking News from Jair Bolsonaro

Campaigners voice hopes and fears for the rainforest before leaders of eight Amazon nations attend summit in Belém

Nine people were killed Wednesday in a police operation targeting criminal gangs in Rio de Janeiro, authorities said, the latest in a week of security force raids that have left at least 44 dead across Brazil.

Nine people were killed as police raided a favela in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday

Marina Silva welcomes progress but says climate crisis means upcoming regional summit needs to produce real action

Brazil authorities call for investigation after hundreds of police officers were deployed in response to the killing of an officer

An Indigenous leader who became a symbol of the fight for the preservation of the Amazon has called upon Brazil’s president to defend the rights of Indigenous people, including removing “invaders” from their territories and ending ongoing negotiations on carbon credits

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is fading from the spotlight, showing the courts’ power over the electoral system and the political shortcomings of the increasingly powerless former leader

Daminhas da Bola cuts through the engrained sexism of Brazilian society and trains tomorrow’s football superstars

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a decree tightening restrictions on civilian access to guns in Brazil, in a move aimed at reversing the pro-firearms policies of his right-wing predecessor Jair Bolsonaro

Experts believe numbers partly reflect effects of lockdowns and trickling down of Jair Bolsonaro’s ultra-conservative views

Earlier this summer, Brazil’s top electoral court banned former president Jair Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years. Bolsonaro is 68 and will be unable to run for president until he’s 75.