Brazil news

• Brazilians hail strength of democracy as Bolsonaro is called to account

  19-02-2025 20:35
  
  ‘In Brazil coup-mongers go to jail. In the US they get back into the White House,’ says one leading politicianBrazilian democrats have celebrated the strength of their country’s judiciary and institutions after the former president Jair Bolsonaro was left facing political oblivion and jail time for allegedly plotting a coup, in stark contrast to the US’s failure to bring Donald Trump to justice for his anti-democratic acts.“In Brazil coup-mongers go to jail. In the
  
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• Trump’s media group sues Brazil justice weighing Bolsonaro indictment

  19-02-2025 20:09
  
  Florida lawsuit accuses Alexandre de Moraes of violating free speech rights of far-right Brazilian influencerDonald Trump’s media group and the video platform Rumble have jointly filed a lawsuit against a Brazilian supreme court justice, alleging that he violated the right to free speech of a far-right Brazilian influencer residing in the US.The suit against justice Alexandre de Moraes was filed in a federal court in Tampa, Florida, on Wednesday morning, just hours after he received the in
  
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• Bolsonaro indictment leaves Brazil’s tropical Trump staring at prospect of jail

  19-02-2025 17:36
  
  The ex-president faces charges of a murderous conspiracy while his US counterpart has surged back to powerAt the height of Jair Bolsonaro’s haywire presidency, Brazilian activists projected their deepest desire on to the Tower of London, where Guy Fawkes once languished after plotting to blow up parliament and assassinate the king.“Jail Bolsonaro,” their wordplay read. Continue reading...
  
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• British journalist missing in Brazil for 11 days

  19-02-2025 17:26
  
  Foreign correspondents’ association urges authorities to step up search for Charlotte Alice Peet, 32A British journalist has been missing in Brazil for 11 days, a foreign correspondents’ association in the country said on Tuesday, urging authorities to step up their search efforts.Charlotte Alice Peet, 32, last communicated with a friend on 8 February, according to a statement from the Rio de Janeiro-based Association of Foreign Press Correspondents (ACIE). Continue reading...
  
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• Developing world urges rich nations to defy Trump’s ‘climate nihilism’

  19-02-2025 14:11
  
  Poorer countries want rapid emission cuts and more financial help in face of US leader’s stance on global heatingDeveloping countries are calling on the rich world to defy the US president, Donald Trump, and bridge the global chasm over climate action, before the goal of limiting global temperatures to safe levels is irretrievably lost.Diplomats from the developing world are rallying to support Brazil, which will host a crucial climate summit in November, after last year’s talks in A
  
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• I’m Still Here review – Fernanda Torres’s stoic maternal mask never slips

  19-02-2025 08:00
  
  Emotions hide beneath the surface and horrors lurk behind unseen doors in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated tale of the Brazilian disappearedThe subtlety and dignity of Fernanda Torres’s Oscar-nominated performance in Walter Salles’s new film have been rightly praised. This is a kind of mother-courage true story: the case of Eunice Paiva, a Brazilian woman who had to keep her family together and shield her five children from despair when her activist husband Rubens was brutally &
  
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• Jair Bolsonaro charged over alleged far-right coup plot to seize power in Brazil

  19-02-2025 01:43
  
  Former president has denied breaking the law, while attorney general alleges plot included a plan to poison Luiz Inácio Lula da SilvaBrazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has been charged with allegedly masterminding and leading a far-right conspiracy to cling to power through a military coup.The South American country’s attorney general, Paulo Gonet, levelled the charges against the radical rightwing populist and several key allies on Tuesday night. He accused Bolsonaro an
  
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