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• Trump says Bolsonaro ‘not guilty of anything’ amid Brazil coup trial

  07-07-2025 21:44
  
  President Lula rejects foreign ‘interference’ as Trump claims far-right former leader victim of ‘witch-hunt’Donald Trump has issued his strongest defence to date of Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro, claiming the far-right leader is the victim of a “witch-hunt” in his home country.Posting on his social media platform Truth Social on Monday, the US president claimed that Bolsonaro – often dubbed the “Trump of the Tropics” –
  
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• Bolsonaro wanted to exterminate us, claims Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire

  07-07-2025 19:00
  
  Kayapó chief tells in memoir of seeing former president in his dreams and of warning Lula not to repeat past mistakesBrazil’s most revered Indigenous leader, Raoni Metuktire, has said he believes that one of the former president Jair Bolsonaro’s goals while in office was to “exterminate” the country’s Indigenous peoples.According to the Kayapó chief, the far-right populist “encouraged invasions, mining and deforestation” in order to hand In
  
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• ‘God chose you, Jair Bolsonaro!’ Is Brazil now in the grip of evangelicals?

  07-07-2025 16:58
  
  From TV soaps to the supreme court to the top job, Christian fundamentalists are on a power-grab in the country. We meet the director of Apocalypse in the Tropics, a new film charting their risePetra Costa was rewatching footage of what has become a historic speech made in 2021 by Jair Bolsonaro, the then Brazilian president, when suddenly she noticed something that went largely unnoticed at the time. Addressing thousands of supporters in São Paulo, the far-right leader lashed out at a su
  
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• Brics summit in Brazil tries to reinvent collective approach to world’s problems | Jonathan Watts

  07-07-2025 14:23
  President Lula rebukes wealthy countries for retreating on climate and trade but bloc is divided and unbalancedAs the US retreats from the international stage, the most powerful political alliance in the global south has come together in Brazil this week to try to revive and reinvent a collective approach to the world’s problems.The summit of the Brics group of nations at the Museum of Contemporary Art on the edge of Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro is both a dress rehearsal for the Bel&eac
  
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