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Commentary: The rise of the left was the real story of 2022

Pundits reviewing 2022 are heaving a palpable sigh of relief. This was the year, or so the consensus goes, when far-right strongmen such as Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro were enfeebled, China stumbled and the “West” made a comeback, at least against Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

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Brazil's top court bans guns from capital ahead of Lula inauguration

Brazil's Supreme Court on Wednesday banned registered gun-owners from carrying firearms in the federal district until after the inauguration of President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in reaction to recent episodes of political violence.

Reuters

'Coup-mongering' Bolsonarista's battle cry reveals a radicalized Brazil

Nearly two weeks after Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defeated far-right President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil's most fraught election in a generation, Milton Baldin arrived in the capital Brasilia to try to overturn the result.

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The Independent UK

After presidency, unclear fate for Brazil's brash Bolsonaro

Jair Bolsonaro said he would only leave the Brazilian presidency when he was dead, jailed or ready for his second term

The Independent UK

Bolsonaro's call to arms inspired foiled Brazil bomb plot, police are told

A man arrested for attempting to set off a bomb in protest against Brazil's election result was inspired to build up an arsenal by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro's call to arms, according to a copy of his police testimony seen by Reuters.

Reuters

Brazil election-denying ‘terrorists’ threaten Lula inauguration, minister says

‘The rule of law is not compatible with these political militias’

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'Terrorists' threaten Brazil's presidential inauguration - incoming justice minister

Election-denying protesters camping outside Brazilian army bases have become "incubators of terrorism," Brazil's incoming justice minister said on Sunday, a day after police detonated an explosive device and arrested a suspect they accused of links to the Brasilia camp.

France 24

Brazil election-denier 'terrorists' threaten Lula's inauguration, new minister says

Reuters

‘Amazonia, you beauty!’ How the murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira renewed the fight for Brazil’s forests

Six months on, is something positive coming from the killings that shocked the world?

The Guardian - UK

Days before new president, old divisions tearing at Brazil

Trumpets and snares will play Brazil’s national anthem at Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s swearing-in on Jan. 1

The Independent UK

Brazil's Lula promises no deforestation but challenges loom

Brazil's incoming president has promised to eliminate all deforestation by 2030, which would be a complete change of course for Brazil compared to the last four years

The Independent UK

Brazil's Lula taps 16 ministers ahead of inauguration

Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has appointed 16 ministers just over a week before he takes office

The Independent UK

Lula's comeback: The fight to reunite Brazil

In this special edition of Inside the Americas, we head to Brazil, where Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is set to return to office as president for the third time. But while Lula may be back, the country he's set to govern is far from united behind him.

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Reason

Brickbat: Brazil Nuts

After Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro passed a series of measures making it easier to own firearms, the number of gun owners in that nation soared. But Bolsonaro lost a reelection campaign earlier this year to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and a spokesman for Lula said he plans to not…

The Guardian - UK

Seven reasons to be cheerful about the Amazon in 2023 – and three to be terrified

The electoral defeat of Jair Bolsonaro by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is good news for world’s largest rainforest, but the situation remains perilous

Salon

The code behind the far-right's success

Forget the deplorables and focus instead on the persuadables

The Guardian - US

Sônia Guajajara hails Brazil’s Indigenous ministry after Bolsonaro ‘turmoil’

The activist for native peoples says she will work to overturn the ‘catastrophic legacy’ from Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency

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The Guardian - UK

Witness to paradise being lost: my year in the dying Amazon

In the past 12 months I have learned that the mass extermination of the Amazon is a climate catastrophe – and much more

The Independent UK

Brazil police serve search warrants over-Bolsonaro protests

Brazil’s Federal Police have begun serving dozens of search warrants targeting supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro for blocking highways after his election loss

Reuters

Brazil President-elect Lula to restart diplomatic relations with Venezuela

Brazil's future foreign relations minister on Wednesday said President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has asked him to restore relations with Venezuela once he is inaugurated on Jan. 1.

Reuters

Bolsonaro supporters who rioted in Brasilia will face punishment, says future minister

Brazil's next justice minister on Tuesday vowed accountability for supporters of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro who burned buses and attacked police on the day authorities certified the victory of leftist President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Reuters

Gun-loving Bolsonaristas challenge Lula's pledge to disarm Brazil

When four federal police officers came to arrest Roberto Jefferson, a close ally of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, the veteran politician made clear he was going nowhere.

The Guardian - UK

Bolsonaro supporters try to storm police HQ in ‘January 6-style’ rampage

Cars and buses torched after violence erupts following ratification of Lula’s election victory

The Independent UK

Bolsonaro supporters clash with police in Brazil's capital

Supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro clashed with police, setting fire to several vehicles and allegedly attempting to invade the federal police’s headquarters in capital city Brasilia

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