President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva narrowly triumphed over Flávio Bolsonaro, the eldest son of the right-wing leader he defeated four years ago.
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was re-elected as the president of Brazil on Sunday, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro, who rejected the results.
Maps show where Brazil’s progressive president surged ahead to win re-election, a dramatic reversal from the first round of voting.
The Indian leader, facing a volatile youth uprising, appears to be deliberately drawing into the fray a political rival he’s beaten before.
On Sunday, Brazilians will choose between a beleaguered left-wing incumbent and a right-wing challenger. Trade, security and democracy are on the table.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the leftist incumbent, and Flávio Bolsonaro, the right-wing challenger, face off in a narrow race that could redefine the future of Latin America.
The president seems not to understand that the global standing of the United States suffers when he plays into the stereotype of the ugly American.
The Brazilian echoes of American politics have become too eerie to deny.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva faces an uphill battle for another term, in a high-stakes election that may reshape Latin America.
Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of the former president who was jailed over a coup plot, could be on the cusp of winning Brazil’s presidency.
The Trump administration wants a public victory soon, as well as a potential path to U.S. military forces in Mexico.
Ana Ionova examines how the Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro is making crime and safety the center of his campaign, following a right-wing playbook from other Latin American countries.
Nayib Bukele’s notoriously harsh and wildly popular security crackdown in El Salvador is spawning imitators and remaking the region.
Deep in cattle country, voter sentiments in an evangelical stronghold help explain why the country’s leftist president is the underdog in Sunday’s election.
Far from Rio and São Paulo, small towns like Nanuque, with big agricultural businesses and a surging evangelical Christian movement, are swinging to the right.
From Brazil to the North Sea, economic interests have been edging out climate priorities this week.
Brazil spent years targeting electoral lies on the internet. Now, artificial intelligence is stumping the election authorities and reshaping a high-stakes race.
The Amazon rainforest has been a crucial battleground in the country’s presidential runoff.
Flávio Bolsonaro, the front runner in this month’s presidential runoff, is a strong advocate of environmental deregulation who has backed policies that scientists say could hurt the rainforest.
With a narrow presidential election looming, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his allies claim Meta is trying to give his right-wing rival an advantage.
The old world order is fraying. Who gets to shape the next one?
La investigación sugiere que el expresidente de Brasil obtuvo la idea de falsificar su cartilla de vacunación para viajar a Estados Unidos de su ayudante Mauro Cid.
The federal police accused the former president of falsifying his Covid-19 vaccination records.
Amid an unhinged far-right presidency and a devastating pandemic, it was a lifeline.
Em meio a uma tresloucada presidência de extrema direita e uma pandemia devastadora, foi uma tábua de salvação.
The authorities arrested a close aide of former President Jair Bolsonaro on charges that he forged vaccine records, possibly to help Mr. Bolsonaro enter the United States.
The pileup has left visitors from places like Brazil, Colombia, India and Mexico waiting months, even a year or more, to visit family or do business in America.
A comunidade faz uma grande diferença em tempos de pandemia.
Las autoridades deben aprender a ganarse la confianza de las comunidades, que sin su apoyo han tenido que coordinarse para sobrevivir.
Community goes a long way in pandemics.
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Algunos bebés que nacieron con las devastadoras consecuencias de la enfermedad transmitida por mosquitos ya tienen 7 años, pero la covid ha acaparado la atención del mundo.
Algunos bebés que nacieron con las devastadoras consecuencias de la enfermedad transmitida por mosquitos ya tienen 7 años, pero la covid ha acaparado la atención del mundo.
Some babies born with devastating birth defects from the mosquito-borne illness are 7 now, but Covid turned the world’s attention away.
Pandemic lockdowns, misinformation campaigns, conflicts, climate crises and other problems diverted resources and contributed to the largest backslide in routine immunization in 30 years.