In a petition to the international criminal court experts said the ‘mass deforestation’ poses a clear dangerThe Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro must be held criminally responsible for a “ruthless” assault on the Amazon that has exacerbated the clima…
Mass protests in Brazil call for Jair Bolsonaro’s impeachment
Crowds parade through cities as polling shows president’s ratings sinking to new depths Tens of thousands of protesters have returned to the streets of Brazil’s biggest cities to demand Jair Bolsonaro’s impeachment, as a poll showed the Brazilian presi…
Brazil’s health minister tests positive for Covid after meeting maskless Johnson
Marcelo Queiroga sat close to Boris Johnson and Liz Truss at New York meetingCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Brazilian health minister, Marcelo Queiroga, has tested positive for Covid and gone into isolation, 24 hours af…
Bolsonaro vowed to show a new Brazil but ‘lie-filled’ UN speech cuts little ice
Far-right president peddled unproven Covid remedies and made baseless claims about Brazilian politics and the environmentThe Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, told the United Nations general assembly he had come to showcase “a new Brazil, with its c…
Is this the beginning of the end for Jair Bolsonaro? | Andre Pagliarini
The Brazilian president wanted a popular uprising against the supreme court, but the underwhelming response was tellingThere is something pathetic about a leader who cannot recognise his limitations. For months, Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, has …
Trump may be gone, but Covid has not seen off populism
It is liberal fantasy to imagine that poor handing of the pandemic has lessened the allure of Modi and Bolsonaro. They are learning fast how to subvert votingWhen the pandemic struck, newspaper opinion pages were full of pieces predicting the end of au…
Bolsonaro diehards take to streets of Brazil to urge firing squads and coups
Thousands rallied in the capital behind the far-right populist but polls suggest his presidency is coming off the rails ahead of next year’s elections André Meneses made a gun sign with his hands to convey what he thought should happen to those who opp…
Bolsonaro supporters clash with police before major rally in Brasília
Violence erupts as rightwing activists attempt to break through blockade and force their way to congressPre-dawn skirmishes have erupted between police and hardcore supporters of Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, as rightwing activists tried to force…
Brazil: warning Bolsonaro may be planning military coup amid rallies
Former world leaders and public figures say nationwide marches are modelled on US Capitol insurrectionThe Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, and his allies could be preparing to mount a military coup in the world’s largest democracy, according to an …
Fears of violence on Brazil’s streets as millions rally to back Bolsonaro
His rural voters see the embattled president as a ‘messenger from God’. And this week they will march in the cities to support himJair Bolsonaro supporters aren’t hard to find in Sinop, an agricultural boomtown in the Brazilian Amazon where nearly 80% …