The Latest Breaking News from Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Brazil’s lower house has approved a major reform of the nation’s notoriously complicated tax system

Brazil’s Congress has overturned a veto by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva so it can reinstate legislation that undoes protections of Indigenous peoples’ land rights

Argentina's newly empowered President Javier Milei presented figures to lay bare the scope of the nation's economic "emergency," and sought to prepare the public for drastic public spending cuts.

Economist Javier Milei sworn in as Argentina’s president and immediately moves to prepare public for drastic public spending cuts

Economist Javier Milei has been sworn in as Argentina’s president and has immediately moved to prepare the public for a painful shock adjustment with drastic public spending cuts

As economist Javier Milei assumes Argentina's presidency, the nation wonders which version of the anti-establishment crusader will govern.

The unpopular leader is eyeing nationalist votes by stoking of tension over Guyana’s Essequibo region

Guerrilla leader turned president says, faced with having to reduce consumption, upper classes fear ‘the barbarians are coming’

President-elect Milei will seek to align Latin America’s third largest economy with the US, Israel and ‘the free world’.

As world leaders gather at Cop28, these charts show how far away the major economies are from their targets

Argentina’s outgoing government says it will not support the signing of a long-delayed trade deal between the European Union and the South American bloc Mercosur during a summit this week in Brazil even though the incoming Argentine government has expressed support for the deal