The Latest Breaking News from Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

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 · Oct 23, 2023

Brazil’s Lula vetoes core part of legislation threatening Indigenous rights

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has vetoed the core aspects of a bill passed by Congress that threatened to undo protections of Indigenous peoples’ land rights

The Independent UK · Oct 21, 2023

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.

WEKU · Oct 19, 2023

Criminals without borders: the transnational gangs terrorising the Amazon

Indigenous peoples in Colombia are being targeted and fragmented by armed groups who plunder the forest for gold and timber and take control of land

The Guardian - UK · Oct 9, 2023

Brazil's President Lula back at official residence to recover from hip replacement surgery

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been discharged from the hospital two days after undergoing successful hip replacement surgery that will have him working from home while he recovers

The Independent UK · Oct 1, 2023

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 · Sep 29, 2023

Brazil's President Lula set to undergo hip replacement surgery

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is scheduled to undergo hip replacement surgery Friday

The Independent UK · Sep 29, 2023

The UN and the multilateral system are in crisis – what the Global South must do

The planet is on fire, but almost all the firefighters have deserted. At the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, which began on September 19 in New York, the leaders of four of the five permanent members of the Security Council – the UN’s most powerful executive body –…

The Conversation · Sep 28, 2023

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

The Guardian - US · Sep 27, 2023

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 Independent UK · Sep 26, 2023