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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

September 2024

  • Handout picture released by the Brazilian presidency shows the drought-hit Jaquiri river in Manaquiri, Amazonas State, northern Brazil on Tuesday.

    Brazilian president flies into Amazon amid alarm over droughts and wildfires

    Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says Amazonia suffering its worst drought in more than 40 years
  • A man, Silas Malafaia, wearing a yellow T-shirt speaks into a microphone as he raises his arm in the air

    Rise against fascism
    Where does democracy end and theocracy begin for Brazil?

    Petra Costa and Alessandra Orofino
    We never thought we would ask ourselves these questions, but they have not left our minds for the last decade
    • Brazil’s human rights minister sacked over sexual harassment allegations

    • Lula says Elon Musk’s wealth does not mean world must accept his ‘far-right free-for-all’

    • Brazil’s supreme court upholds ban on Elon Musk’s X over ‘illegal conduct’

August 2024

  • Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro holds up his hand in front of flags, with Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva looking on

    Lula criticizes Maduro’s ‘authoritarian’ regime amid Venezuela election dispute

  • Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

    Lula says he doesn’t yet recognize Maduro as winner of Venezuela election

  • people march against police violence

    Bahia’s police killings pile pressure on Lula’s Workers’ party in Brazil

  • Super-houses in London

    No more fiscal favours? Calls to tax super-rich gain traction around world

  • Brazil cuts ties with Nicaragua as it rethinks links with leftist authoritarians

  • Southern frontlines: Latin America and the Caribbean
    The lawless mining gangs targeting the Amazon’s precious green energy minerals

  • Opinion
    Brazil led the way. Now the UK should get behind the assault on hunger and poverty

    Kevin Watkins

July 2024

  • Milei in a suit and tie.

    Argentina’s president butts heads with South American leftist leaders

    Turning from his ferocious attacks on domestic opponents, Javier Milei aims his scorn at the heads of Brazil and Bolivia

May 2024

  • Brazil floods: Lula flies over Rio Grande do Sul as army races to rescue stranded families – video

    Brazil's president flew with several cabinet members over the southern Rio Grande do Sul state to witness the floods that have killed at least 75 people

April 2024

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    At last G20 is showing how to finance an assault on poverty

    Larry Elliott
  • Jordana Timerman

    Lula is styling himself as the new leader of the global south – and shifting attention away from the west

    Jordana Timerman

March 2024

  • BRAZIL-PUTSCH<br>Brazilian army tanks on April 01, 1964 in Rio de Janeiro during the military putsch that led to the overthrow of President Joao Goulart by members of the Brazilian Armed Forces, and a military regime led by Humberto Castelo Branco. (Photo by - / AFP)        (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

    Lula dismays relatives of dictatorship’s victims by ignoring coup anniversary

    Brazil’s president has nixed commemorations of the 1964 coup, possibly to avoid irking the military as senior officers facing jail for allegedly conspiring to stop Lula taking power after 2022 election
  • two men in white shirts clutching hands closely on a boat

    Macron rekindles France-Brazil relationship in widely memed Lula visit

    Photos of French president’s three-day trip to Brazil to reaffirm countries’ partnership delight internet observers
  • The French president, Emmanuel Macron, speaking at the Brazil-France economic forum in São Paulo on Wednesday

    Macron calls proposed EU-Mercosur trade pact ‘very bad deal’ lacking strong climate commitments

    French president tells Brazil forum both parties need to be ‘much stronger’ on biodiversity and climate

February 2024

  • The former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro

    Jair Bolsonaro surrenders passport in coup attempt investigation

    Police seize passport as agents carry out 33 searches and four arrests across Brazil, targeting allies of far-right former president
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