Brazil
Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:52:00 GMTLubetkin warns Flávio Bolsonaro that “it is not easy to leave Mercosur”
Uruguay’s Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin has warned Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro that “it is not easy to leave Mercosur”, in response to his criticism of the bloc during the campaign for the October...
Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:29:00 GMT
Brazil blames human action for the fires sweeping the Amazon
The Brazilian government has blamed deliberate human action for the wave of fires in Amazonas state, where 540 new hotspots were recorded in 48 hours, more than half of those detected in the whole of October 2025, according to ...
Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:09:00 GMT
Iguazú Falls closed as the river’s flow tops 12,000 cubic metres per second
Iguazú National Park, in Argentina’s Misiones province, closed access to the falls’ walkways on Monday because of an exceptional rise in the Iguazú River, whose flow exceeded 12,000 cubic metres per second. The flood is p...
Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:50:00 GMT
Lula takes to the streets of São Paulo to close the gap two weeks before the runoff
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva led a large rally on São Paulo’s Avenida Paulista on Sunday to relaunch his campaign two weeks before the October 25 runoff, in which he trails Senator Flávio Bolsonaro. “Thi...
Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:10:00 GMT
Flávio Bolsonaro proposes constitutional reform to overhaul the courts and lower the criminal age
Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, who will face Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil's presidential runoff on October 25, has said that if he wins he will use his Liberal Party's congressional bloc to push a constitutional reform that...
Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:15:00 GMT
Lula targets non-voters and over-70s to overturn the first-round result
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will focus his campaign for the October 25 runoff on mobilising those who did not vote on Sunday, particularly people over 70, and on winning over centrist voters, after finishing ...
Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:30:00 GMT
São Paulo stocks jump 8% and the real firms after Bolsonaro's first-round win
Brazilian markets rallied sharply on Monday in response to the first round of the presidential election, in which Senator Flávio Bolsonaro finished ahead of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, contrary to what polls had pred...
Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:18:00 GMT
"The end of the PT era is decreed," says Flávio Bolsonaro after winning the first round
Senator Flávio Bolsonaro celebrated his first-round victory in Brazil's presidential election in Brasília with a message focused on change. "Change, the word is change. Brazil can't take any more. The end of the PT era is dec...
Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:08:00 GMT
Lula bets on education and non-voters to overturn the result in the runoff
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has set education, research and industrial policy as the pillars of his campaign for the October 25 runoff, and urged the more than 30 million Brazilians who abstained on Sunday to...
Mon, 05 Oct 2026 10:30:00 GMT
Flávio Bolsonaro edges Lula in the first round; both head to an October 25 runoff
Senator Flávio Bolsonaro won around 47% of valid votes in the first round of Brazil's presidential election on Sunday, ahead of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who took about 45%, according to the Superior Electoral Cour...