Brazil

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Wednesday that the 50% tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump would trigger the country’s economic reciprocity law. That allows trade, investment and intellectual property agreements to be suspended for countries that harm the South American nation’s competitiveness.

The former far-right populist president, Jair Bolsonaro, will face trial for allegedly attempting to overturn his 2022 reelection loss and stage a violent coup.

The accused will become defendants in a criminal case if a majority of justices vote to accept the charges filed by the prosecutor-general last month.

A Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro will present the story of a trans woman nearly burned at the stake in the 16th century as a means to spotlight trans people’s struggle in Brazil, where more of them are reported killed than anywhere else.

“I’m Still Here,” a film about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades, gave Brazil its first Oscars win on Sunday in the best international film category.

COMMENTARY We thought former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was imitating President Trump's Jan. 6 thuggery — but it turns out he was allegedly, and quite chillingly, upstaging Trump the whole time.

Brazil's top prosecutor Paulo Gonet has formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat.

Time is of the essence for a Brazilian neuroscientist who wants to study whale and dolphin brains before the brains decompose in the heat.

Temps soar in Brazil's summer (from December to March). Low-income favelas would benefit from green roofs but there are two problems: Cost. And a typical design that's too heavy for a favela home.

Three reasons help explain why the two politicians have faced such contrasting fates.

Digital gambling could spell the end for a lottery run by criminal gangs that has been a fixture of Brazilian life for decades.

Santa Claus has braved the sticky heat of the Amazon rainforest this weekend, taking two boats to bring gifts to the children of a small village near the Brazilian city of Manaus.