President Donald Trump’s relationship with Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is complicated by the US administration’s broader strategy in Latin America.
- Executive Director of the Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University
- Visiting Professor, School of Global Affairs, King's College London
The latest legal developments could galvanize his right-wing base.
The third-term president has used his experience and personal relationships with lawmakers to build the majorities that now support his agenda.
Brazil’s military portrays itself as guardian of the country’s democracy when it has often been anything but.
A very tight election victory, a divided country and an economy in tatters.
More than 600,000 Brazilians have died of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. A new report says the policies of President Jair Bolsonaro are responsible for around half.
How did the British prime minister and Brazilian president’s brush with COVID-19 affect them politically?
Le président du Brésil, Jair Bolsonaro, a été testé positif au Covid-19, une maladie qu’il a par le passé qualifiée de « simple gripette ».
He once called it a ‘little flu’ – now Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, has tested positive for COVID-19.
A host of political and social factors have created Brazil’s polarised political climate.
What the Amazon fires mean for Jair Bolsonaro politically.
Brazil’s new president wants to sacrifice the environment, but he faces some constraints.
A dejected public and a crowded, unpopular field of candidates make for an unhappy election.
One of the world’s most spectacularly unpopular president might yet make it through.
The Olympics provide Brazilians with a welcome distraction from their country’s fraught and bitter politics.
A massive corruption scandal is engulfing Brazil’s political establishment – but reports of the country’s imminent collapse are greatly exaggerated.
Brazil is being rocked by a graft scandal of titanic proportions. Could it bring down Dilma Rousseff?
Dilma Rousseff has narrowly won re-election to the presidency of Brazil, capturing 51.6% to her rival’s 48.4% in a second-round run-off election. Now, as her second term begins, she faces the challenge…
After a long and spectacular campaign, the world’s fourth-largest democracy will take one of two very different paths – but even in the very last stages of the campaign, it’s impossible to confidently…
The extraordinary 7-1 defeat of Brazil by Germany in the World Cup semi-final is richly ironic. Many Brazilians had hoped that by hosting the World Cup in 2014, their country could finally exorcise the…
When FIFA awarded the 2014 World Cup finals to Brazil seven years ago, it looked as if the tournament would be a coming out party for the country. Now, the picture is far more mixed. It has become fashionable…
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