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‘Terrible thing’: Trump defends Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro against coup trial

Both right-wing leaders have faced legal action for allegedly attempting to overturn their election losses.

Al Jazeera

Trump says Bolsonaro ‘not guilty of anything’ amid Brazil coup trial

President Lula rejects foreign ‘interference’ as Trump claims far-right former leader victim of ‘witch-hunt’

The Guardian - US

Bolsonaro wanted to exterminate us, claims Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire

Kayapó chief tells in memoir of seeing former president in his dreams and of warning Lula not to repeat past mistakes

The Guardian - UK

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‘God chose you, Jair Bolsonaro!’ Is Brazil now in the grip of evangelicals?

From TV soaps to the supreme court to the top job, Christian fundamentalists are on a power-grab in the country. We meet the director of Apocalypse in the Tropics, a new film charting their rise

The Guardian - UK

Nations are increasingly ‘playing the field’ when it comes to US and China – a new book explains explains why ‘active nonalignment’ is on the march

In 2020, as Latin American countries were contending with the triple challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, a global economic shock and U.S. policy under the first Trump administration, Jorge Heine, research professor at Boston University and a former Chilean ambassador, in association with two colleagues, Carlos Fortin and Carlos Ominami,…

The Conversation

Brics summit in Brazil tries to reinvent collective approach to world’s problems

President Lula rebukes wealthy countries for retreating on climate and trade but bloc is divided and unbalanced

The Guardian - UK

BRICS group slams tariffs and Iran conflict at summit in Brazil

BRICS leaders are set to discuss key global political issues, but questions over the bloc’s unity have arisen as Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have opted to skip the summit.

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BRICS summit opens in Brazil with key leaders notably absent

BRICS leaders set to discuss key global political issues in Rio de Janeiro, but questions over the bloc’s cohesion arise as Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin opt to skip the summit.

Euronews

Lula visits former Argentinian president under house arrest in snub to Milei

Brazilian president meets Cristina Fernández de Kirchner at her flat in Buenos Aires after regional summit

The Guardian - US

Brazil’s outspoken first lady won’t be silenced

Janja, a 58-year-old sociologist, has drawn criticism for insulting tech billionaire Elon Musk

The Independent UK

Brazil confronts military officers accused of plotting a coup in historic trial

Brazil's Supreme Court had a historic moment on Tuesday when it heard a confrontation between an army colonel and general, both disgraced for their involvement in an alleged coup plot to keep former President Jair Bolsonaro in office

The Independent UK

'I was terrified I was going to die.' Rape victims in Brazil struggle to access legal abortions

A Brazilian woman who says she became pregnant after being raped in March should have been granted access to a legal abortion

The Independent UK

Brazil's Bolsonaro used intelligence agency to spy on judges, lawmakers and journalists, police say

Brazil’s federal police accused former president Jair Bolsonaro and 35 others of involvement in a sprawling scheme that used the country’s intelligence agency to spy on members of the judiciary, lawmakers and journalists

The Independent UK

Brazil to auction oil exploration rights months before hosting Cop30

Sale covering 56,000 square miles to go ahead despite opposition Indigenous and environmental groups

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The Independent UK

Japan's Princess Kako addresses Brazil's Congress, meets with Lula in presidential palace

Japan’s Princess Kako of Akishino, a niece of Emperor Naruhito, was welcomed by Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at a private ceremony

The Independent UK

Brazil’s former president Bolsonaro has been convicted for a coup attempt. What happens next?

Supreme Court justices voted for his conviction, sentencing him to 27 years and three months in prison.

The Guardian - US

Bolsonaro denies coup plot but admits discussing ‘alternative ways’ to remain president

Ex-Brazilian president admits in court that after Lula’s win, ‘we studied other alternatives within the constitution’

The Independent UK

Brazil’s Bolsonaro takes the stand before the Supreme Court over alleged coup plot

Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro is testifying for the first time before the Supreme Court over an alleged plot to remain in power and overturn the 2022 election result

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The Independent UK

Ahead of UN climate talks, Brazil fast-tracks oil and highway projects that threaten the Amazon

With the first U.N. climate talks in the Amazon set for November, Brazil is fast-tracking a series of controversial decisions that undercut its green rhetoric, revealing mounting political pressure on the federal environmental agency and widening divisions within President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s cabinet

The Guardian - US

Brazil braces for Bolsonaro’s day in court as ex-president testifies over ‘coup plot’

Rightwinger accused of conspiring against democracy says appearance before supreme court will be ‘worth watching’

The Guardian - UK

Monday briefing: How the work of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira carries on, three years after their killing

In today’s newsletter: A new Guardian podcast, Missing in the Amazon, explores the legacy of our colleagues, the fight to protect the rainforest, and the ongoing search for justice

The Guardian - US

Catholics now make up little more than half Brazil’s population

Census finds just 56.7% in world’s biggest Catholic country follow Roman church as evangelical numbers rise

The Guardian - UK

‘This is my mission, my destiny’: a treacherous Amazon journey tracing the steps of our murdered colleagues

Three years after the deaths of the British journalist and Brazilian activist, the Guardian joined the Indigenous peoples continuing their dangerous and often gruelling work to protect the rainforest

The Independent UK

Lula expands Brazil's affirmative action quotas for Indigenous and Black communities

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed a new law to expand the country’s affirmative action policies

The Guardian - US

‘We carry on with the sadness’: new projects honor life and legacy of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira

Friends and colleagues of Phillips, killed in the Amazon in 2022, completed his book, which coincides with launch of investigative Guardian podcast

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