Perched high atop Corcovado Mountain, the Cristo Redentor, as Brazilians call it, is a postcard not only for the city of Rio de Janeiro but for the entire country. But now, its management and future are at the center of a growing debate over religion,

Brazil’s federal police have arrested Gen. Walter Braga Netto, a member of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s cabinet, in connection with an alleged coup plot, the Supreme Court said in a statement.

Brazil's 2026 presidential election may offer a field of candidates featuring neither incumbent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva nor far-right rival Jair Bolsonaro.He will certainly be our candidate in 2026,

Brazil’s currency plunges to lowest level in 30 years after breakneck spending on pensions and social services.

When President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva walked up the ramp of the Presidential Palace arm in arm with Cacique Raoni, one of Brazil’s most prominent Indigenous leaders, he was carrying high expectations from traditional communities.

The plot included an operation dubbed “Green and Yellow Dagger”, which called for the the assassination of Lula and other top officials.

Catholic leaders in Brazil are joining efforts to stop attempts to pardon the conspirators who planned a coup d’état in Brazil at the end of 2022.

In 15 conservation units, illegal gold miners destroyed 330 hectares (815 acres) — an area close to the size of Central Park in New York City — in only two months.

A compelling new biography of Brazil’s Lula da Silva offers a sharp contrast to the dispiriting state of South Africa’s politics

Brazil's Foreign Ministry and Washington embassy did not ... even as the far-right former president, Jair Bolsonaro, was unseated during the 2022 presidential elections. Alongside harassment of female journalists covering the latest municipal elections ...

Lula's predecessor, far-right President Jair Bolsonaro weakened environmental controls in the Amazon. That triggered a new gold rush in Brazil, spurred by record world gold prices that were driven up by geopolitical tensions and central bank purchases ...

It took 20 years, the advent of Mr Trump and the rise of China to produce an initial agreement in 2019. But both sides had doubts. Many Europeans objected to the aggressive support of Jair Bolsonaro,