Jair Bolsonaro

So far, the president's trip to New York City for the United Nations General Assembly appears to be anything but a success for Brazil or the country's image after a series of blunders early this week.

COMMENTARY The pandemic has finally given scientists more standing in Latin America. Let's hope that helps give the region's bad politicos less of it.

After trading jabs with Biden about the Amazon, Brazil's leader now wants $1 billion to reduce deforestation. Many Brazilians warn Biden not to trust the deal.

COMMENTARY: The police abuse Americans are suddenly confronting is vastly worse in Latin America and the Caribbean – and certainly affects the U.S.

Bolsonaro has downplayed the threat of the coronavirus while arguing that the economic and emotional impacts of shutdowns would harm more Brazilians than the pandemic.

COVID-19 cases and deaths are spiking anew in Latin America — and its spring break week could create superspreader conditions for a dangerous virus variant.

COMMENTARY Neither present President Bolsonaro nor past President Lula is the leader Brazil's future needs. Brazil's voters look stuck with them anyway.

Brazil's calamitous COVID news gets uglier, politically and medically, with a bottom ranking for pandemic handling and a report that critics are being prosecuted.

COMMENTARY Few regions need an effective COVID vaccine campaign more urgently than Latin America. So far, in Brazil and elsewhere, that's not happening.

A couple months ago Brazil's coronavirus curve began to flatten. But it's spiking again — just as Brazilians are being far less vigilant than before.

COMMENTARY It's right for expats to urge a president to sanction repressive regimes. But it's dangerous for him to be their petty partisan surrogate back home.

COMMENTARY Our hemisphere has one-eighth of the world's population but half the world's COVID cases and deaths. Its two most important leaders led the way.