Brazil

What came out of the South American summit on protecting the Amazon?

By Kayan Tara

At their first summit focused on the Amazon in nearly 15 years, eight South American countries pledged this week to work together to combat deforestation. While they revived a key treaty organization in this new united front, environmentalists have expressed…

EU and Latin American leaders hold a summit hoping to rekindle a long-lost relationship

By Raf Cassert, Associated Press

European Union and Latin American leaders are gathering for a major summit of long-lost relatives. Whether it will also be a joyful reunion of friends remains to be seen after eight years.

In Lula’s first six months, Brazil Amazon deforestation dropped 34 percent, reversing trend under Bolsonaro

By Fabiano Maisonnave, Associated Press

Lula campaigned last year with pledges to rein in illegal logging and undo the environmental devastation under former President Jair Bolsonaro.

Brazil’s top electoral court bars Jair Bolsonaro from running for office for 8 years

By Mauricio Savarese, Diane Jeantet, Associated Press

A panel of judges voted Friday to render far-right former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro ineligible to run for office again after concluding that he abused his power and cast unfounded doubts on the country’s electronic voting system.

Brazil’s Congress weakens environmental, Indigenous ministries in a rejection of leftist president

By Fabiano Maisonnave, Associated Press

The move shows the increasing power of Brazil's so-called "beef caucus," shorthand for cattle businesses and other large-scale agriculture who together control the majority of both legislative chambers in the country.

South America’s presidents meet in Brazil for the first regional summit in 9 years

By Carla Bridi, Associated Press

Analysts say Lula senses an opportunity for integration because of the political affinities of the region's current governments and appears to want to test leaders' willingness to cooperate through a revived Union of South American Nations, or Unasur.

Brazilian president says UN will hold 2025 climate conference in Brazil

By Associated Press

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Brazil would hold the conference, known as COP 30, in the Para state city of Belem in the heart of the Brazilian rainforest.

Police search Bolsonaro’s home as Brazil probes fake COVID-19 vaccine cards

By Carla Bridi, David Biller, Associated Press

Brazil's Federal Police have searched former President Jair Bolsonaro's home and seized his phone in what they said was an investigation into alleged falsification of COVID-19 vaccine cards.

Brazilian President Lula resumes recognition of Indigenous land areas

By Carla Bridi, Fabiano Maisonnave, Associated Press

Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has approved the creation of six Indigenous territories, the first such move after a five-year hiatus in Indigenous demarcation.