The Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó Márquez may return to his country on Tuesday, where he must report to the judicial authorities. Guaidó said to visit in Brasilia after a conversation with...
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó Márquez arrived in Brazil with a Colombian aircraft to visit President Jair Bolsonaro. Local media reported that the self...
The new Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro left the hospital in São Paulo after more than two weeks. The 63-year-old former soldier now returns to Brasilia, says his...
The Supreme Court of Brazil has decided Wednesday to temporarily release the detained former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. That would enable Lula to change the body of...
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has signed a decree that eases the arms law. He promised to arm civilians who adhere to the law. So they can defend themselves against the...
The Italian ex-terrorist Cesare Battisti has been arrested in Bolivia. He is reportedly handed over to the Brazilian authorities who will in turn hand over Battisti to Italy....
The Brazilian government has sent about 300 soldiers to the northern city of Fortaleza to curb the violence there. Soldiers are going to patrol the city according to the BBC and...
Brazil stops appearing with the allocation of land to indigenous minorities, mainly Indians. Possibly, existing protected areas are also being opened up for exploitation.
The United States demands the immediate return of a retired US Marine who has been arrested by Russia for espionage. The US Secretary of State, Mike...
The controversial right-wing populist Jair Bolsonaro was installed in parliament on Tuesday as president of the more than two hundred million inhabitants of Brazil. The 63-year-old, until recently...
The Brazilian authorities have issued an arrest warrant against a famous 'wonder doctor'. The 76-year-old João Teixeira de Faria was said to be a large-scale female patient...
The Brazilian police have started an investigation into a famous wonder doctor for sexual abuse. In less than a week, 258 women have accused the miracle worker.
Conservative populist Jair Bolsonaro has won the presidential elections in Brazil. That has been announced by the Brazilian electoral council. About 97 percent of the votes were counted, with 55 percent going to the former military, reports the BBC.
The right-wing populist presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro goes after the counting of 65 percent of the votes in the Brazilian elections. The Electoral Commission said that it has received 49 percent of the votes so far. If that continues, the second ballot will be held on 28 October. Bolsonaro can win the elections immediately if he gets a majority.
The Brazilian police arrested the 51-year-old terror suspect Assad Ahmad Barakat in Foz do Iguaçu, close to the three countries with Paraguay and Argentina. American justice called Barakat one of 'the most influential members' of the militant Lebanese Hezbollah movement. He would have channeled money he had earned with illegal activities to Hezbollah.
More than 100 prisoners have escaped from a prison in the Brazilian state of Paraiba. Criminals blew the entrance to the institution. Then they attacked guards with firearms, the authorities say. An agent of the military police was seriously injured.
The man who stabbed Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro on Thursday said he did so on behalf of God. According to his lawyer, he admitted what he did and acted alone.
Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro has been stabbed. This happened according to local media during a campaign meeting. The son of the right-wing politician said on Twitter that his father was hospitalized with a 'superficial' wound.
The former president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva may not participate in the presidential elections in October. The electoral court in Brazil has decided to do so because of Lula's condemnation of corruption. The lawyers of Lula have already said they will appeal.
The Brazilian president Michel Temer has been hard-pressed to the Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. Temer voiced his criticism because of the exodus of refugees from Venezuela that leads to an immigration crisis on the borders of neighboring countries.
The Brazilian government is sending military personnel to the border town of Pacaraima, because there were confrontations between Brazilian residents and migrants from Venezuela on Saturday. The army reported that about 1200 Venezuelans fled to their own country after the riots, according to the Agencia Brasil news agency.
Residents of the northern Brazilian city of Pacaraima attacked a refugee camp on Saturday and set it on fire. In the camp about two thousand Venezuelan refugees, many of whom fled back, crossed the border.
A Brazilian federal judge, Rogério Favreto, has ordered that the former Brazilian president Luíz Inacio Lula da Silva be released. The leftist politician Lula da Silva has been detained in the city of Curituba since April, because he has been convicted for twelve years because of a corruption case called the triplex case. Lula accepted an apartment on the coast of the state of São Paulo as a gift from a construction company. The expensive apartment was actually a bribe from the company that wanted government assignments.
The Brazilian prosecutor has filed a complaint against agricultural minister Blairo Maggi. In 2009 he would have been involved as a governor in corrupt practices in the state of Mato Grosso.
The former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, can not continue to await his appeal in freedom. That is what the Supreme Court of the country decided. According to polls, he seems to be the most likely to be elected president of Brazil in October, but that plan is probably still falling apart.
The former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has once again suffered a legal defeat. A court of appeal dismissed procedural objections to his conviction for corruption.
The Brazilian Supreme Court has put an end to changes to the Forest Act, which were proposed by environmentalists. They are now warning that illegal deforestation will threaten the Amazon rainforest even more than is already the case.
The Brazilian Supreme Court has passed a law amendment that grants amnesty to landowners who have illegally logged trees before 2008. The verdict means a major setback for environmentalists. They fear that the way will now be cleared for large-scale logging in the Amazon.
A court in Brazil has approved the seizure of the passport of the convicted Brazilian former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The former president and current candidate of the Labor Party in the upcoming elections was about to leave for Africa.
The Brazilian former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who was convicted in appeal, is the presidential candidate of the Labor Party in the coming elections. Party leader and senator Gleisi Hoffmann said Thursday at a meeting with trade unions.
