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Brazil’s lower house of Congress has approved a major reform of the nation’s notoriously complicated tax system, showing compromise is possible between the conservative Congress and leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Richard Court barely spoke Portuguese when he moved to Brazil. Forty years after his smash first single, he’s celebrated as one of the country’s most successful singers

‘We reversed the curve, deforestation isn’t increasing’

The rate of deforestation since Lula Ignacio de Silva was sworn in as Brazil's president has dropped by 34%. Protecting the Amazon had been one of his campaign promises.

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest dropped 33.6% in the first six months of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s term, providing an encouraging sign for his administration's environmental efforts

When asked to situate the world’s most iconic rainforest on a map, most people will pinpoint Brazil. And given the intense media coverage of the country’s deforestation and fires – concerns reached a peak under former president Jair Bolsonaro and his free-for-all approach – they might also imagine a thick…

Thousands of Amazon Indigenous are leaving their rainforest villages in a migration to urban areas that is reshaping their lives, their villages and their new cities

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A majority of Brazil’s electoral court voted to bar Jair Bolsonaro from public office for eight years in the first major legal rebuke of the former president, whose efforts to sow doubt about the 2022 election have now put his political future at risk.

Former president will only be able to seek elected office again in 2030 – when he is 75

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been barred from office for eight years for abuse of power, after he made unfounded claims about Brazil's voting system ahead of last year's election.