Brazil’s new President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (C) greets indigenous Brazilian leader and environmentalist Raoni Metuktire, known as Chief Raoni (3-R), and other community representatives after his inauguration ceremony on January 1, 2023.
Sergio Lima/AFP
More than a week into administration, Lula’s multicultural politics could not stand in starker contrast to Bolsonaro’s colourblind stance. Could they bring the country together?
Chaos: one of hundreds of supporters of ousted president Jair Bolsonaro outside the presidential palace.
EPA-EFE/Andre Borges
The sacking of key democratic institutions in Brasilia has parallels with the Jan. 6 assault on the US Capitol but was different in one key way: the position of the military.
Pelé inspired millions with his exploits on the soccer pitch, but also had to confront power to extract himself from the sport’s social constraints.
Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images
Peru now has its sixth president in just five years. An expert on Latin American politics explores the country’s political instability and what happens next.
The Brazilian’s football team’s yellow shirt has become a symbol of Bolsonaro in recent years.
Salty View/Alamy
Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he will end land clearance in Brazil’s Amazon region. But powerful forces profit from rainforest destruction.
Plenty for the president-elect to think about.
Shutterstock/Marcus Mendes
Lula’s international reputation could be key to the country’s success.
Supporters of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva gather on a city street in São Paulo, Brazil, after he defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in a presidential run-off election on Oct. 30, 2022.
(AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
Despite Jair Bolsonaro’s defeat in Brazil, democracy remains under threat. The legacies of authoritarian figures like Bolsonaro and Donald Trump live on.
Former president Donald Trump arrives for the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in Bedminster, NJ., in July 2022.
(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Many of the world’s most powerful and aspiring leaders are aging or elderly men. That’s a big problem.
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers the 2022 state of nation address to a joint sitting of Parliament. Coalitions could soon be a feature of national government.
Jaco Marais/Pool Images/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
The clearing of the Amazon rainforest surged to its highest levels in two decades under the Bolsonaro presidency. The newly elected Lula da Silva has vowed to halt deforestation, but it won’t be easy.
‘I will govern for all the people’: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva celebrates his election victory.
EPA-EFE/Sebastiao Moreira
A very tight election victory, a divided country and an economy in tatters.
A demonstrator dressed in the colours of the Brazilian flag performs in front of a street vendor’s towels for sale featuring Brazilian presidential candidates Jair Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in Brasilia, Brazil, on Sept. 27, 2022.
(AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
It is unclear who will win Brazil’s election in the second round, but one thing is obvious: Bolsonaro’s brand of right-wing conservatism is growing, and so is its threat to democracy.
An election worker prepares the voting machines ahead of the Brazilian vote.
Reuters/Rodolfo Buhrer
Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is ahead in the polls. But will his authoritarian rival, incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro, accept the result if he loses?
Pastor Silas Malafaia, second from left, prays alongside President Jair Bolsonaro, far left, at the Assembly of God Victory in Christ Church in Rio de Janeiro.
AP Photo/Bruna Prado