Bolsonaro

For Amazonian land activist Erasmo Theofilo, this year’s Brazilian presidential election is the most important in the country’s history. But he could not vote during the first round on October 2 because he and his family were in hiding from assassins. Since Jair Bolsonaro came to power in 2019, this…

As Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro traded barbs with his leftist rival, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in the final debate ahead of Sunday’s presidential face-off, supporters of the two candidates gathered in their respective strongholds to watch the faceoff. The fiesty debate was as dramatic as a football match,…

Ahead of Sunday’s vote, many poor Brazilians say former president’s support for them is most important, while criticizing his rival President Jair Bolsonaro for how he handled the Covid pandemicSÃO PAULO—If Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wins Brazil’s election this weekend, it would mark a major political comeback for the…

On Sunday, Brazilian voters will vote in a runoff election that will decide whether the far-right incumbent president, Jair Bolsonaro, is reelected, or if the leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who served as Brazil’s president between 2003 and 2010, is returned to office. That there will be a second…

Posted October 28, 2022 at 6:00am Congressional Democrats and the Biden administration are demanding a free and fair election in Brazil on Sunday, floating consequences for the “Trump of the Tropics,” Jair Bolsonaro, if he refuses to recognize the outcome of a democratic election. The Brazilian president has said he…

SAO PAULO — Hundreds of Brazilians packed into the Teatro Tuca, a theater at the center of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, on Monday night to see Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva kick off the final week of a heated and tumultuous presidential campaign. An even larger crowd…

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (R) trails Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (L) by a score of 47 percent to 53 percent, according to the most recent Datafolha institute poll - Copyright AFP/File Olivier DOULIERY After a bitterly divisive campaign and inconclusive first-round vote, Brazil will elect its next president Sunday…

In the other corner, Bolsonaro is a uniquely Brazilian incarnation of familiar far-right populism, uniting agribusiness, evangelicals, and the armed forces with his ultra-conservative promises to defend “God, family, homeland, and liberty.” While Lula believes in the state as an engine of economic growth, Bolsonaro puts his faith in free…

President Jair Bolsonaro suprised in the first round of the election, winning a much larger share of the vote than opinion polls had predicted - Copyright AFP NELSON ALMEIDA Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday he would accept possible defeat in the second round of the presidential election on…

Presidential frontrunner pledges support for religious freedom in letter to key voting bloc that mostly backs Bolsonaro. Published On 19 Oct 202219 Oct 2022 Brazilian presidential frontrunner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has published an open letter to the country’s evangelicals, as he seeks to chip away at far-right President…