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By Ricardo Brito, Rodrigo Viga Gaier and Andre Romani BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian police on Tuesday conducted raids targeting several businessmen who have backed President Jair Bolsonaro's re-election, two sources said, after a media report accused them of discussing the virtues of a coup d'etat if the far-right leader lost…

/ Live news Issued on: 18/08/2022 - 21:48 Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, seen here in May 2022, was caught on video grabbing a heckler by the shirt Filipe ARAUJO AFP/File Brasília (AFP) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro got into an altercation Thursday with a social media personality who questioned and…

SAO PAULO — Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro briefly grappled with a heckler and tried to snatch his phone on Thursday, underscoring possible challenges for the sometimes quick-tempered leader to stay disciplined on the campaign trail. As Bolsonaro spoke to supporters outside his residence in the capital city of Brasilia, social…

Brazil's former President and presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gestures at Alexandre de Moraes' Inauguration ceremony as the new president of the Superior Electoral Court in Brasilia, Brazil August 16, 2022.REUTERS/Adriano Machado Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comSAO PAULO, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Luiz Inacio Lula…

Opinion polls released this week show the incumbent behind his rival, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, by seven percentage points or more despite the passage of an aid package worth some 41.3 billion reais ($8 billion). On Wednesday, a survey published by Quaest found Lula would win 45%…

Brazil's presidential election campaign officially began Tuesday with former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva leading all polls against incumbent Jair Bolsonaro amid growing concern of political violence and threats to democracy. Da Silva, whose two-term presidency ran from 2003 to 2010, has already taken to wearing a bulletproof vest…

SAO PAULO — Thousands of Brazilians flocked to a law school Thursday in defense of the nation’s democratic institutions, an event that carried echoes of a gathering nearly 45 years ago when citizens joined together at the same site to denounce a brutal military dictatorship. In 1977, the masses poured…

Updated 2 days ago · Published on 31 Jul 2022 11:00AM · Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks at the Liberal Party National Convention in Rio de Janeiro. Recent opinion polls show that Bolsonaro is trailing former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva by a large margin. – EPA pic, July…

Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right extremist who has governed Brazil since 2018, on Sunday officially accepted his party’s nomination for president—and made some of his most menacing comments yet about the potential for chaos and even mass violence if he were to lose reelection later this year. “The army is on…