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Boris Johnson was ‘Trump-Bolsonaro level mad and dangerous’ on Covid, civil service chief says

Then-PM wanted to end social distancing just as second wave of pandemic was feared while cases were rising

The Independent UK

Mario Vargas Llosa says latest novel will be his last

Nobel prize-winning Peruvian author still plans to write an essay on Sartre that ‘will be the last thing I write’

The Guardian - UK

Tuesday briefing: How Argentina punctured far-right populism’s rise in South America

In today’s newsletter: Javier Milei was expected to top the first round of voting in the presidential election, but the country picked the centrist candidate

The Guardian - UK

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Argentina: leftists celebrate after far-right Milei fails to win election victory

Lula and other Latin American leftwingers hail Sergio Massa’s first-placed finish, with election now headed to November runoff

The Guardian - US

First Thing: Israel launches ‘limited raids’ into Gaza Strip overnight

White House says there will be ‘continued flow’ of aid, after Biden speaks with Netanyahu. Plus, far-right populist Javier Milei comes second in the first round of Argentina’s presidential election

The Guardian - UK

Far-right populist Javier Milei fails to win first round of Argentina’s presidential election

Potty-mouthed political outsider will head to November runoff with centrist finance minister Sergio Massa

The Guardian - UK

Argentine economy minister upsets populist as they head to presidential runoff

Sergio Massa surprised Sunday night by finishing on top in the first round of Argentina's presidential election, reflecting voters' wariness about handing the presidency to a right-wing populist.

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‘Bad and dangerous’: Argentina’s Trump on track to become president

If elected on Sunday, populist Javier Milei vows to abolish central bank, loosen gun laws, legalize sale of human organs

The Guardian - US

Argentina’s far-right frontrunner reopens wounds of dictatorship

Javier Milei has provoked alarm and outrage by downplaying the number of victims of the country’s 1976-83 military rule

The Guardian - US

Lawmakers in Brazil say Bolsonaro should be charged with attempting to stage a coup

Former president Bolosnaro rejected the report's findings, issued by lawmakers mostly allied with the current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as biased. "It's completely biased," Bolsonaro said.

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Bolsonaro was engineer of ‘wilful coup attempt’, Brazil congress inquiry alleges

Congressional investigation into failed rightwing insurrection on 8 January calls for former president to be charged with four crimes

The Guardian - US

‘He acts like Wolverine’: who is Javier Milei, Argentina’s presidential frontrunner?

The hard-right libertarian has brandished a chainsaw on the campaign trail, found fame on TV scrutinizing the economy and evangelizing about tantric sex, and appears poised to win

The Guardian - US

Brazil is taking a new direction after Bolsonaro – but will Britain take note?

Much has changed already under Lula da Silva’s presidency, but this vast country does not receive the attention it deserves

The Guardian - UK

When people feel hopeless about politics, ‘vote-tripling’ can inspire them. Could it work for New Zealand?

It’s enough for individuals to make a difference but not so ambitious that it puts them off. It achieved results in the US and Brazil, so how about here?

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Brazil’s first-ever minister for Indigenous peoples: ‘It is time for the world to look at our way of life’

Sônia Guajajara rose from poverty to become one of Brazil’s most formidable politicians. She talks about battling farmers, miners and land grabbers – and why technology is not the answer to the climate crisis

The Guardian - UK

In the line of fire: Indigenous brigades battling forest blazes in the Amazon

The photographer Victor Moriyama follows an Indigenous fire brigade as they try to fill the gap left by the Brazilian state in Rondônia, one of the most deforested regions of the Amazon

The Independent UK

Soccer star Paulinho becomes torchbearer in Brazil for his sometimes-persecuted Afro-Brazilian faith

When Brazilian soccer player Paulinho scored a goal at the Tokyo Olympics, he celebrated by pointing an imaginary arrow at the flashing cameras as homage to a deity in his persecuted Afro-Brazilian faith

The Guardian - US

Brazilians push to make dream of Black woman on supreme court a reality

Women make up 51% of the population, and Afro-Brazilians 56%, but no Black woman has ever sat on the highest court

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Brazil Court upholds Indigenous rights

The ruling puts up additional road blocks for the mining, logging, and cattle industries

The Independent UK

Brazil slows Amazon deforestation, but in Chico Mendes' homeland, it risks being too late

Luzineide Marques da Silva knows the location of each of the 748 rubber trees in the Brazilian Amazon that she and her family have rights to tap for latex

The Guardian - UK

‘Our drummer used human tibia bones’: the hellish birth of Brazil’s heavy metal scene

Responding to police brutality, hard labour and the threat of nuclear war, members of Sepultura, Holocausto and more explain their decidedly anti-tropical music

The Hindu

Brazil strengthens climate goals, targets 48% lower emissions by 2025

Brazil is expected to announce revised climate targets this week, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva strengthens a prior pledge made by his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro

The Independent UK

Brazil's Bolsonaro denies proposing coup to military leaders

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is denying a report claiming he consulted with top military leaders on staging a coup to stop Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from assuming the presidency last January

The Independent UK

Tears of joy after Brazil's Supreme Court makes milestone ruling on Indigenous lands

Indigenous people in Brazil are celebrating after the country's Supreme Court ruled to enshrine their land rights

The Guardian - US

Brazil supreme court rules in favor of Indigenous land rights in historic win

Court voted against agribusiness-backed attempt to prevent communities claiming land they did not physically occupy in 1988

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