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The results bring to a close the most consequential election in Brazil in decades. Now, President-elect da Silva faces the huge task of reinvigorating Brazil's economy.
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Brazilians head to the polls Sunday to vote in a presidential election that is testing the world's fourth-largest democracy and could have a critical impact on the fight against climate change.
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A Brazilian politician attacked federal police officers seeking to arrest him in his home, prompting an hours-long siege that caused alarm and a scramble for a response at the highest level of government. He said in a video message that he refused to surrender, though by early evening he was in custody.
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As rainforest destruction hits record levels, Brazilians have rediscovered their most important eco-asset — and so should people anywhere facing sea level rise.
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The killing occurred on the day of Brazil’s independence bicentennial, in a stronghold of President Jair Bolsonaro. The 24-year-old suspect killed a co-worker who supports rival presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. In July, a Bolsonaro supporter allegedly shot and killed a local official of da Silva’s political party.
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Jair Bolsonaro is relying on support from the country's quickly growing evangelical community to pull off an upset against former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in October.
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COMMENTARY Few things would embolden Trump's troops more than to see a military coup keep his buddy Bolsonaro in power should he lose Brazil's election.
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COMMENTARY A new U.S. push — especially in Florida — to whitewash the trans-Atlantic slave trade ranks in the same racist league with Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro.
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COMMENTARY Why are conservative Colombians so upset about leftist Gustavo Petro's victory when their anti-peace plan fervor did so much to help him win?
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COMMENTARY: Disney movies helped turn Latin Americans away from Hitler. Darker versions of those flicks could turn them, and Americans, against Putin.
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A book by AP reporters Peter Prengaman and Mauricio Savarese considers the real reasons Brazil's Congress impeached the nation's first female president in 2016.
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COMMENTARY: Miami isn't the serious forum for hemispheric affairs it could be because its Latin America discussion isn't really about Latin America.