Lula gives speech at For Democracy and More Rights in Ceará state - Photo: Ricardo Stuckert

Jail or Presidency? Brazil Court Decides the Future of Ex-president Lula

January 24 will be a stress test for Brazilian democracy. That is when a ...

Lula, during act in defense of democracy - Ricardo Stuckert/ Instituto Lula

Brazil’s Workers Party Chief Warns Many Will Be Killed If Lula Is Not Allowed to Run for President

Brazilian Senator and president of the Workers Party, PT, Gleisi Hoffmann said that jailing ...

Cyberactivist Sergio Amadeus warns such laws would impact "social movements" more than the corporate media.

Brazil’s Mr. Fuck Rushing to Get Anti Fake News Law Passed. Indies Fear Loss of Freedom to Report

Brazil’s General Secretary of the Superior Electoral Court Luciano Felicio Fuck is calling for ...

Cristiane Brasil

Brazil’s New Labor Minister Barred from Assuming Post for Not Paying Her Employees

New Labor Minister Cristiane Brasil was banned from the position after she was found ...

Prisoners get medical after a rebellion at the Colônia Agroindustrial prison in Goiânia

Nine Killed, Two Decapitated, 100 escape, in Brazil’s Latest Prison Riot

At least nine people have died in clashes between rival gangs in one of ...

Jornalivre is a notorious fake news disseminator in Brazil

Brazil’s Effort to Fight Fake News Raises Concerns About Censorship

In early December 2017, Brazil’s government established a committee to monitor and possibly order ...

Petition by Intellectuals in Brazil Says Presidential Elections Without Lula Would Be Fraud

“Election without Lula is fraud” is the manifesto being promoted by intellectuals and artists ...

Anti-corruption protest - Photo: Wesley Almeida/cancaonova.com

Brazil Gasps at Festival of Christmas Presidential Pardons for the Corrupted

Brazilian anti-corruption prosecutors and organizations raised their voice this weekend against President Michel Temer’s ...

Supreme Court's building in Brasília

70% of Brazilian Authorities’ Cases in the Higher Court Have to Do with Corruption

Some 70% of cases involving authorities at the Brazilian Supreme Court and the Superior ...

Armed men set fire to environmental agency buildings in Brazil's Amazon region

In an Act of Revenge, Brazilian Gold Miners Set Government Buildings Ablaze

Hundreds of armed men have set fire to environmental agency buildings in Brazil’s Amazon ...