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  • Thursday, 25 March, 2021
    Brazilian politics
    Brazil’s business elite rebukes Bolsonaro as Covid deaths mount

    Hundreds of prominent private sector leaders sign an open letter attacking president’s handling of crisis

  • Sunday, 21 March, 2021
    Brazilian politics
    Brazil’s establishment strikes back at anti-corruption drive

    A landmark effort to weed out endemic graft has been abandoned and its legacy is under threat

  • Friday, 12 March, 2021
    Brazilian politics
    Lula da Silva’s return poses challenge to Bolsonaro in Brazil

    Combative ex-president could unite the left against rightwing leader in 2022 race

  • Thursday, 11 March, 2021
    Luciano Huck
    Brazil’s Bolsonaro needs to get real on climate change

    The Biden administration has given him a perfect opportunity to change course on denialism and avoid pariah status

  • Wednesday, 10 March, 2021
    Brazilian politics
    Brazil’s Lula da Silva returns to political fray with Bolsonaro attack

    Former leader seen as possible presidential challenger after annulment of corruption convictions

  • Tuesday, 9 March, 2021
    Instant InsightMichael Stott
    Lula is back: Bolsonaro’s old nemesis returns to haunt him

    Surprise quashing of corruption convictions allows former socialist president to run again

  • Monday, 8 March, 2021
    Brazilian politics
    Brazilian judge strikes down Lula da Silva’s graft convictions

    Decision could pave way for leftwing leader to stage political comeback in next election

  • Sunday, 7 March, 2021
    The Big Read
    Militias, corruption and Covid: Rio de Janeiro’s deepening crisis

    In a country that has barely grown for a decade, Brazil’s most famous city is mired in heavy debt and violent crime

  • Saturday, 9 January, 2021
    Deforestation
    Climate graphic: Brazil denudes rainforest further in 2020

    Area of deforestation in the Amazon in last year was the greatest since 2008

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  • Wednesday, 23 December, 2020
    News in-depthBrazil
    Corporate Brazil faces reckoning on racism after brutal killing

    Companies that do not take action risk reprisals ranging from boycotts to vandalism

  • Tuesday, 10 November, 2020
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Coronavirus: Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio set new records for daily Covid cases — as it happened
  • Wednesday, 4 November, 2020
    Brazilian politics
    Son of Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro charged with corruption

    Development threatens to ensnare country’s leader in scandal again after months of calm

  • Wednesday, 19 August, 2020
    Brazilian politics
    Brazil’s once-mighty Workers’ party faces reckoning

    Ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s promises of a PT comeback in 2022 are met with scepticism

  • Tuesday, 11 August, 2020
    News in-depthThe Big Read
    Bolsonaro and the generals: will the military defend Brazil’s democracy?

    As his position has come under threat, the president has raised the prospect of political intervention by the army

  • Monday, 10 August, 2020
    Oliver Stuenkel
    International pressure can save the Amazon from Bolsonaro

    The political calculus that maintains destructive environmental policies could be changed

  • Monday, 13 July, 2020
    Brazilian politics
    Spread of fake news adds to Brazil’s pandemic crisis

    Bogus coronavirus stories fuel push for legislation to stop flood of disinformation

  • Friday, 26 June, 2020
    Brazilians flock to beaches despite wave of coronavirus infections

    Health experts warn country is reopening too soon as authorities battle world’s second-worst outbreak

  • Monday, 25 May, 2020
    Gideon Rachman
    Bolsonaro’s populism is leading Brazil to disaster

    If life were a morality tale, the Covid-19 antics would turn Brazilians against the populist president

  • Tuesday, 28 April, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The self-destruction of the ‘Tropical Trump’

    Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro is building the case for his own impeachment

  • Sunday, 26 April, 2020
    Brazilian politics
    Sérgio Moro resignation adds to pressure on Brazil’s Bolsonaro 

    Justice minister’s departure raises risk of yet another impeachment in Latin America’s largest democracy

  • Friday, 24 April, 2020
    Brazilian politics
    Brazil’s justice minister quits in blow to Bolsonaro

    Sérgio Moro was the face of nation’s long-running ‘Car Wash’ anti-corruption probe

  • Thursday, 13 February, 2020
    News in-depthBrazilian politics
    How Brazil swayed towards conservative values under Bolsonaro

    President at forefront of rightwing revival after years of leftwing rule

  • Thursday, 6 February, 2020
    Brazilian politics
    Bolsonaro seeks to open Brazil’s indigenous land to mining

    President says plan would tackle poverty but critics fear extra threat to Amazon

  • Tuesday, 21 January, 2020
    Brazilian politics
    Brazil charges US journalist Glenn Greenwald

    Case against The Intercept founder stirs concern about freedom of press under Bolsonaro

  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2020
    Vale SA
    Brazil prosecutors to charge Vale over dam disaster

    Announcement expected almost a year on from deadly collapse that killed over 250 people

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