• September 11 2025
  Brazil’s supreme court finds former leader Bolsonaro guilty of plotting coup

  Case against former hard-right president has divided the South American country

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• September 2 2025
  Bolsonaro trial nears close as US-Brazil relations plummet

  Supreme court case against ex-president on coup plot charges has drawn Trump’s ire

  
• August 21 2025
  Brazil police say Bolsonaro planned to seek asylum in Argentina

  Far-right former leader faces more than 40 years in prison over alleged coup plot

  
• August 18 2025
  Brazilian economy

  Brazil deadlocked with US over 50% tariffs, finance minister says

  Reduction in high levies depends on Washington being open to talks, according to Fernando Haddad

  
• August 12 2025
  The Big Read

  The unprecedented feud between the US and Brazil

  Two of the world’s largest countries are at odds over the fate of one man: Trump ally Jair Bolsonaro. Can the rift be mended?

  
• August 11 2025
  Brazil

  US is planning new sanctions on Brazil, says Jair Bolsonaro’s son

  Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro predicts Donald Trump will escalate penalties over ex-president’s trial on coup charges

  
• August 9 2025
  Environment

  Lula partially vetoes Brazil’s contentious environmental bill

  Campaigners warn law will damage Brasília’s ecological credentials ahead of COP30 summit in the Amazon

  
• August 5 2025
  Brazil’s supreme court orders Bolsonaro house arrest

  Decision defies Donald Trump’s demand to end rightwing former president’s trial on coup charges

  
• August 4 2025
  Deforestation

  Brazilian environment minister battles over new law gutting deforestation protections

  Marina Silva to propose changes to legislation rammed through congress ahead of UN climate summit in Belém

  
• August 1 2025
  Top Brazil judge vows to continue Bolsonaro trial despite US sanctions

  Alexandre de Moraes says supreme court expects to reach a verdict in former president’s case later this year

  
• July 31 2025
  News in-depthBrazil

  Brazil vows to defend supreme court against Trump’s onslaught

  Americas’ two biggest nations at loggerheads after Lula refuses to negotiate on ‘unacceptable’ Trump demands

  
• July 31 2025
  Brazil

  US adds 40% tariff on Brazil and targets judge trying Bolsonaro

  Move by Washington takes levies on country to 50% for alleged unfair trade practices and trial of former president

  
• July 27 2025
  Brazil to double down on Brics in defiance of Donald Trump

  Country vows to strengthen ties after US president threatens punitive tariffs against any nation aligned with ‘anti-American’ bloc

  
• July 18 2025
  Brazil orders curfew and ankle tag for ex-president as clash with US escalates

  Donald Trump’s letter calls for halt to Jair Bolsonaro’s trial on coup charges

  
• July 3 2025
  Americas politics & policy

  Brazil’s Lula visits former Argentina leader Kirchner under house arrest

  Leftists’ meeting underscores Brasília’s strained ties with neighbour’s libertarian president Javier Milei

  
• June 27 2025
  Technology regulation

  Brazil supreme court rules digital platforms are liable for users’ posts

  Ruling risks stoking tensions with US amid accusations of censorship of social media groups

  
• June 10 2025
  Ex-Brazilian president Bolsonaro takes the stand over alleged coup plot

  Erstwhile rightwing head of state denies planning putsch to remain in power after failing to win re-election

  
• June 9 2025
  Brazilian economy

  Brazil plans panda bond as Lula looks to bolster ties with China

  Planned issuance also includes debt in Europe and will test investor appetite amid concerns over government policies

  
• June 4 2025
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  Petrobras: fuelling the future or stuck in the past? | FT Film

  The question is in what direction is it going and at what cost, both for investors and Brazilian society?

  
• May 28 2025
  Brazil

  Brazil in last-ditch lobbying push to avert US sanctions on top judge

  Trump administration sympathetic to conservative arguments that free speech is under threat in South American country

  
• May 16 2025
  Agricultural production

  China suspends chicken imports from Brazil due to detection of bird flu

  South American nation had been the last big producer not affected by the outbreak
• May 15 2025
  Brazil’s $1bn pension fraud casts shadow over Lula re-election hopes

  Accusations of slow response to scandal hit president as polls began recovering from year-long slide

  
• April 24 2025
  Jair Bolsonaro

  Jair Bolsonaro’s medical condition deteriorates in hospital

  Former president of Brazil remains in intensive care 11 days after surgery as trial looms over alleged coup plot

  
• April 23 2025
  Brazil

  China and Brics will ‘defend’ global order as Trump withdraws, Brazil says

  Developing nations are ‘main defenders’ of global diplomacy, argues president’s top foreign policy adviser

  
• April 1 2025
  The Big Read

  The risky trial of Jair Bolsonaro

  Brazilian authorities want justice over an alleged coup plot, but the case against the former president risks boosting his popularity — and dividing the country