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Lava Jato

Brazil's Moro under fire after leaked messages hint at anti-Lula conspiracy

10-06-2019 10:10 The Intercept alleges then-federal judge Sergio Moro and prosecutors involved in an investigation against Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva worked together to jail former president.

BLOOMBERG

A common Brazil-Argentina currency? A 'distant mirage' for now

10-06-2019 09:09 Worried about possible noise caused by the discussion, Brazil’s Central Bank issued a statement late at night on Thursday denying there are ongoing plans or even studies for a monetary union with Argentina.

KEY STORIES

June 2nd-8th: What We Learned This Week

08-06-2019 12:26 Stories that caught our eye in the last seven days.

EDITORIAL

Editorial:Touching first base

08-06-2019 12:22 Presidents Jair Bolsonaro and Mauricio Macri would seem to have a lot in common – but not their appointment diaries.

BOLSONARO IN ARGENTINA

Bolsonaro and Macri boost ties as election looms

08-06-2019 10:56 Outspoken Brazilian leader pays first visit to Argentina, with EU-Mercosur deal and common currency on the agenda.

ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

Brexit Britain, Jair, Mauricio and the Trump effect

08-06-2019 09:40 Maybe, instead of dismissing the Trump era as a phase that will surely pass, we have to acknowledge that we have seen the Trump effect down our way, in Latin America, too.

by David Smith

BOLSONARO IN B.A.

Protesters take to streets to tell Bolsonaro he's not welcome in Argentina

07-06-2019 19:22 Hours after President Macri had hosted his Brazilian counterpart, Jair Bolsonaro, at the Casa Rosada, a crowd dominated by leftists marched on the Plaza de Mayo to express their disapproval of the far-right leader.

by Jonah Shrock

RAPE ALLEGATIONS

Neymar gives statement to police in Brazil as rape allegations pile on pressure

07-06-2019 14:32 Neymar, injured and out of the Copa América, visits police station as probe opens into whether he broke the law after posting intimate pictures online of a woman who accused him of rape.

DEAL OR NO DEAL?

EU tells Macri, Bolsonaro: There's still work left to do on Mercosur trade deal

07-06-2019 10:19 EU officials brush off suggestions from presidents of Argentina and Brazil that a sweeping free-trade deal with the European bloc is close to being signed.

BILATERAL RELATIONS

Macri, Bolsonaro: Signing of EU-Mercosur free-trade deal is 'imminent'

06-06-2019 15:31 Controversial Brazilian leader visits Argentina for the first time as president, as protesters take to streets. Talks with President Macri focus on Mercosur, boosting respective economies and Venezuela.

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

Brazil faces recession risk after economy shrinks in first quarter

31-05-2019 07:39 Latin America's biggest economy on brink of recession once again, new data confirms.

POVERTY & INEQUALITY

Brazil's poor are squeezed as inequality grows

28-05-2019 13:50 Study released this month by the Getúlio Vargas Foundation found that the key measure of income inequality has reached its highest level since the series began seven years ago, with Brazil among the most unequal nations in a broader region where the gap between rich and poor is notorious.

NUCLEAR TENSION

Officials from Brazil, Argentina meet amid rising tension over nuclear issues

25-05-2019 09:56 Complications in the bilateral relationship as two nations push in opposite directions.

by Aurelio Tomás

POLITICS

Macri and Bolsonaro will work together to modernise Mercosur, boost economies

16-01-2019 17:07 In their first face-to-face meeting as presidents, the leaders agreed to cooperate on a range of key economic issues.

by Anna Laffrey

EDITORIAL

Editorial: Moro’s the pity

03-11-2018 10:43 How should we define this enormously prestigious judge after this latest move? As a kamikaze lunatic? An opportunist? An idealist?

BILATERAL RELATIONS

Relations with Brazil face uncertain future in Bolsonaro era

03-11-2018 10:17 Brazil’s incoming government has sparked controversy by casting a veil of uncertainty over its future relations with Argentina and the Mercosur trade bloc.

by Giulia Petroni

SERGIO MORO JOINS BOLSONARO

Lava Jato judge puts legacy on line after agreeing to be new justice minister

03-11-2018 08:29 Sergio Moro, the Brazilian judge at the centre of one of the largest corruption investigations in history, has agreed to become justice minister in the government of Presidentelect Jair Bolsonaro.

BRAZIL’S NEW GOVERNMENT

Latin America braces for ‘the Bolsonaro effect’

03-11-2018 08:15 The region’s leaders are closely watching Brazil’s next president-elect, with his arrival in office likely to kick off a period of change in foreign policy, trade, policing and even in how political campaigns are waged, analysts say.

BRAZILIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Fascist? Populist? The debate over how to describe Jair Bolsonaro

27-10-2018 09:25 Jair Bolsonaro says he wants to liberalise a largely closed economy, so why is he being called a “populist”? Is he being “fascist” when he makes derogatory comments about blacks, Indians and gays? What about when he says political opponents should be shot or waxes nostalgic about the 1964-1985 dictatorship?

BRAZILIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Centrist voters left orphaned as polarised Brazil chooses its next president

27-10-2018 09:11 Jair Bolsonaro boasts that opponent Fernando Haddad could only beat him by ‘fraud’ in Sunday’s decisive election run-off, with polls indicating the far-right frontrunner has a seemingly unbeatable lead.

BRAZILIAN ELECTIONS

The challenge for Brazil’s presidential candidates: overcoming voter rejection

13-10-2018 09:42 Jair Bolsonaro and Fernando Haddad, Brazil’s far-right and leftist candidates duelling for the presidency, could not be further apart in terms of politics, promises and personality. But there’s one thing they share: big blocs of voters virulently opposed to seeing one or the other take power.

BRAZILIAN ELECTIONS

Brazil leans toward unsparing vision of far-right Bolsonaro

13-10-2018 09:35 Far-right ex-Army captain strong favourite going into second round against Workers’ Party candidate Fernando Haddad.

BRAZIL

Lula names his replacement as Bolsonaro returns to surgery

15-09-2018 09:41 “I want everyone who would vote for me to vote for Fernando Haddad for president of Brazil,” Lula said.

LATAM WATCH

Without Lula, a politically barren Brazil goes ablaze and bloody

08-09-2018 10:55 Can Bolsonaro continue on his campaign with voting day barely four weeks away? And if he does return to the presidential race, how will this attack influence his voting intentions?

by Carolina Barros

BRAZILIAN ELECTION

Stabbing of Bolsonaro set to reshape Brazil’s presidential campaign

08-09-2018 09:31 Far-right candidate, whose heated rhetoric has electrified some and angered many others, survives knife attack – an indication of just how much anger is evident in Brazil’s polarised electorate.

LATAM WATCH

The Bolsonaros: a political Gang of Four

01-09-2018 09:22 They’re not a freak show in aesthetic terms but the rhetoric might have come from a horror movie.

by Carolina Barros

JOAQUIM BARBOSA

Brazil elections: First black justice says he won't run for president

08-05-2018 16:01 Joaquim Barbosa announced his decision on Twitter Tuesday, calling it “strictly personal”.

BRAZIL'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Jailed Lula still leads polls, as presidential rival charged with racism

16-04-2018 13:31 Presidential ballot up in the air, with the top polling candidate in jail and his far-right rival Jair Bolsonaro charged with racism by attorney general.