Lula da Silva, who governed Brazil from 2003 to 2011, had been considered a frontrunner in the October election... READ MORE›
Lula da Silva is a founding member of Brazil's only socialist political party, Partido dos Trabalhadores, The Workers' Party... READ MORE›
Prosecutors have portrayed Mr. da Silva, who has also been charged in six other corruption cases, as a linchpin of Brazil's endemically corrupt political system... READ MORE›
Significant support Brazil's leading financial daily Valor Economico recently published research that suggested at least 50 percent of Lula da Silva voters would back a Lula-picked candidate... READ MORE›
Lula da Silva and his lawyers maintain he is innocent... READ MORE›
Brazil on edge as appeals decision nears in ex-president Lula corruption case... READ MORE›
Three judges in Brazil will shortly decide whether to uphold a prison term given to the country's former President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva... READ MORE›
Chile's conservative President-elect Sebastian Pinera on Tuesday named Senator Baldo Prokurica as incoming mining minister, a key post in the world's top copper exporter... READ MORE›
I want to say that the possibility to approve the reform is very strong, Temer said... READ MORE›
Yet there is no escaping the long shadow cast over the week by Trump, as the convention-shredding president bids to make good on his Davos-baiting promises... READ MORE›
How much evil is done to our Latin American people and the democracies of this content by this social virus, the pope said... READ MORE›
Thousands of indigenous people had traveled to meet the pontiff from throughout the Amazon basin region of Peru, Brazil and Bolivia... READ MORE›
Trump has suggested that Mexico could finance construction of the wall indirectly through changes to NAFTA... READ MORE›
Brazil can meet its energy needs without mega-dams, and now it will finally get the chance... READ MORE›
Brazil's 99 was founded in 2012 by local youth entrepreneurs to provide online car and taxi calling services... READ MORE›
Police in Brazil say at least nine prisoners have been killed in a riot at a jail in the central state of Goias... READ MORE›
Inmates from rival gangs battled at a prison in Goaias state Monday, leaving nine dead and 14 injured, authorities told the Brazilian news site G1. Officia... READ MORE›
Hundreds of practitioners of Brazil's Afro-Brazilian Candomble and Umbanda faiths have gathered at Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana beach to honor the sea godde... READ MORE›
As the Farc demobilised, deforestation soared by 44 percent in 2016 with a rush of land-grabbing to plant coca and clear land for cattle ranches... READ MORE›
On Saturday, Venezuela expelled Brazil's chief diplomat Ruy Pereira, prompting an angry response from the Brazilians... READ MORE›
The subject was a huge talking point among Jordanian social media users despite the numbers being comparatively small... READ MORE›
Peruvian officials begin impeachment process against president kuczynski... READ MORE›
An Amtrak train derailment in Washington has killed multiple people on board... READ MORE›
An Amtrak train derailment in Washington has killed multiple people on board... READ MORE›
Two Chinese entrepreneurs paid millions of dollars to a Brazilian company that bribed environment officials of an Amazon state to illegally export precious hardwoods to China... READ MORE›
For the remainder, Marcelo Odebrecht will be under house arrest in Sao Paulo... READ MORE›
In September, Brazil's Supreme Court authorized a different investigation into whether Temer signed a legal decree on ports because of Rodrimar bribes, an allegation both parties have denied... READ MORE›
Peruvian president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski is accused of accepting bribes from the Brazilian construction company... READ MORE›
Kuczynski had previously denied any ties to Odebrecht... READ MORE›
Brazil's President Michel Temer has agreed with congressional leaders to delay a key vote on pension legislation in the lower house until the week of Dec. 18,... READ MORE›
Brazilian president has dissolved Renca to attract investment in region thought to contain gold with critics warning of irreversible damage... READ MORE›
The miners cut the tribe members' bodies so that they wouldn't float, Lorenzi said, then dropped them into the Jandiatuba River... READ MORE›
Last month, the government of Temer, Rousseff's former vice-president, plunged to 3 percent in one poll... READ MORE›
Pedrosa said he was pressing his counterparts in the Brazilian government on the issues, according to a British diplomatic telegram obtained by Greenpeace... READ MORE›
Temer and his cabinet are closely linked to mining and agribusiness industries that want to reduce protections for indigenous territory, the Amazon rainforest and other biomes... READ MORE›
Judge says president Michel Temer went beyond his authority in issuing decree to dissolve Renca, after fury from activists... READ MORE›
Globally, the mortality rate for young people decreased 21 percent between 2000 and 2015, with HIV-related deaths in particular falling significantly... READ MORE›
A Brazilian court has suspended a government decree that would open up a vast natural reserve in the Amazon to commercial mining... READ MORE›
The reported massacre would be the second deadliest after 16 Yanomami indigenous people were killed in Roraima state in 1993 by illegal gold miners... READ MORE›
China encourages businesses to invest in Brazil and participate in infrastructure development there, Vice Premier Wang Yang said on Saturday... READ MORE›
'Security guard sacked' The security guard has been identified by police as Damiao Soares dos Santos, 50... READ MORE›
The Amazonian state of Para was the worst affected, with a 229 percent increase in fires from last year... READ MORE›
Trump's actions in Latin America 'criminal,' may lead to war on continent - Rousseff to RT... READ MORE›
The Harteaus had recently been living in the southern Brazil city of Florianopolis... READ MORE›
Advertising agency accused of appropriating black cultural movement - 'In Brazil Blackisbeautiful is now toilet paper. Where do black lives matter?'... READ MORE›
The movement said it set up polls in more than 1,000 municipalities across the states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Parana... READ MORE›
Greenpeace alleges 12 companies continued to trade with Madeireira Cedroarana after its founder was accused of ordering torture and murder... READ MORE›
Lawmakers overwhelmingly oppose charges for Michel Temer despite broad popular support, as observers condemn 'bankruptcy of political system'... READ MORE›
The family along with other passengers were forced down the Amazon river into an area known as Porto dos Dias... READ MORE›
Temer already survived one vote in the Chamber in August, when deputies rejected a charge for passive corruption against him... READ MORE›
BRICS nations, all bellwethers of global trade and investment, constitute a major drive for economic growth... READ MORE›
For the first time in Brazil's history, a female took over prosecutor-general's post on Monday, replacing Rodrigo Janot, who held the position for four years... READ MORE›
Army heads to Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro after schools, businesses and a major road closed during fighting between drug gang members and police... READ MORE›
In the north-eastern state of Bahia, local officials blame the lack of school lunches on budget cuts by the federal government... READ MORE›
On Tuesday a group of Venezuela's allies - including Cuba, Bolivia and Ecuador - declared support for Maduro and attacked US sanctions as imperialist interference ... READ MORE›
A ruling on the right to three territories could have far reaching consequences for indigenous people across Brazil... READ MORE›
The Bosphorus, also called the Istanbul Strait, divides Europe lower half of the image from Asia upper ... READ MORE›
SAO PAULO, Brazil -- It was the most cinematic moment in Brazil's recent political drama... READ MORE›
In parallel, the European leaders agreed to help Chad and Niger with border control to stem illegal migration... READ MORE›
Brazilian indigenous activists celebrated on Wednesday after the Supreme Court ruled against a state seeking compensation for land that had been declared tribal reserves... READ MORE›
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