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SAO PAULO -- Being falsely accused of setting fire in the Amazon with funds from an Oscar-winning actor eventually became a blessing in disguise for Caetano Scannavino, the founder of a nonprofit organization in the heart of the rainforest. Brazil's then President Jair Bolsonaro falsely claimed in November 2019 that…

The US Senate has voted 52–48 to overturn President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil, marking the first of three bills aimed at dismantling his recent trade measures. | Photo Credit: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The Republican-led U.S. Senate passed legislation on Tuesday that would overturn President Donald Trump’s tariffs against Brazil by…

The Republican-led US Senate passed legislation on Tuesday that would overturn President Donald Trump’s tariffs against Brazil by terminating the national emergency he declared in July in retaliation for Brazil’s prosecution of its former president, Jair Bolsonaro, for an alleged coup attempt. In the first of three tariff bills expected…

Brazil’s leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expressed confidence on Monday that his country and the United States will reach a trade deal. U.S. President Donald Trump also signaled that a deal is likely. The statements came a day after the two presidents held talks on the sidelines of a regional summit in Kuala Lumpur,…

(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on October 06, 2025 shows Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends an event to highlight accomplishments in the first two years in office in Brasilia on April 3, 2025, and US President Donald Trump is silhouetted as he speaks to the press…

BRASILIA - Lawyers for former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said late on Tuesday they formally requested his release from house arrest, saying he has not been charged under an investigation that led to his imprisonment last month. Bolsonaro has been under house arrest since August for failing to comply with…

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Eduardo Bolsonaro tied his own case to recent US sanctions on the wife of Justice de Moraes Brazilian lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, has been hit with coercion charges by the country’s prosecutor general, in what supporters of the former president argue is yet another politically…

Radical socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil opened the United Nations General Assembly’s annual “high-level debate” on Tuesday by warning the international globalist coalition that their values were “under threat as never before” and repeatedly condemned, without naming him, President Donald Trump’s foreign policy. Lula’s speech directly…

The United States on Monday sanctioned the wife of Alexandre de Moraes, a Brazilian Supreme Court justice, over the prosecution and conviction of President Donald Trump ally, former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. File Photo By Andre Borges/EPA Sept. 23 (UPI) -- The United States has sanctioned the wife of Brazilian…