Brazil

Brazil's top electoral court calls false Flávio Bolsonaro's claim that his party's observers were removed from the vault room

Satellite image of the merged urban area of Tabatinga, in Brazil's Amazonas state, and Leticia, in Colombia, in 2018.

Public security

Brazil sends federal security force to the Amazon border with Colombia for 90 days

Jamieson Greer, the United States Trade Representative, in his official portrait from 2025.

Washington's 37.5% tariffs on Brazil face a new round of talks after Lula's win, with a written US offer expected in November

A portrait of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva taken in February 2022, when he was a pre-candidate for the presidency. File photo.

Lula wins a fourth term with 51.79% of valid votes, and Flávio Bolsonaro says he will ask the courts to annul the run-off

Justice Alexandre de Moraes during his Senate confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court, in Brasília, in February 2017.

Brazilian justice freezes up to R$ 6 billion from lawyer Willer Tomaz and suspends his passports after a trip to Miami

The headquarters of the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (Superior Electoral Court) in Brasília, opened in December 2011, pictured in 2012.

Electoral Justice

Brazil's electoral court gives Meta and X 24 hours, under a R$500,000 daily fine, to explain how they distribute political content

The headquarters of the IBGE's documentation and information centre in Rio de Janeiro, in 2007. The institute compiles and publishes the IPCA-15.

Brazil's inflation preview slows to 0.32% in October, but the 12-month rate climbs to 4.62% and breaches the target ceiling

The Receita Federal office in Sousa, in the state of Paraíba, in 2011.

Brazil's federal tax take reaches R$239.38 billion in September, a record for the month

Land cleared for crops or cattle near Porto Velho, in the state of Rondônia, in August 2020. Land-use change still accounts for 39% of Brazil's gross emissions.

Brazil's net greenhouse gas emissions fell 9% in 2025, landing 85 million tonnes above its climate target

The joint session of the Congresso Nacional that enacted the end of the 6x1 shift pattern, in Brasília, on 16 October 2026, with Davi Alcolumbre, Hugo Motta, President Lula and lawmakers Paulo Paim and Carlos Veras at the table.

Video: Brazil's Congress enacts the end of the six-day work week, with a 40-hour cap arriving in 14 months

A child leaves the Cidade Estrutural landfill in Brazil's Federal District in February 2008. The archive photo illustrates the subject of the survey.

Household survey

Child labour in Brazil falls 9.2% to 1.499 million, the lowest level in the IBGE series

Land cleared and prepared for cattle or monoculture near Porto Velho, in Rondônia, in August 2020.

Amazon deforestation falls 41.8% to 3,335 sq km, the lowest in the series that began in 1988

An area of forest felled and burned in the rural zone of Apuí, in Amazonas state, in August 2020.

Farming covers 30.5% of the land ringing the Amazon's protected areas, and has grown 561% there in 41 years

The floor of the Senado Federal in Brasília, in a file photograph from September 2014.

Brazil's Senate votes 75-1 in both rounds to abolish the 6x1 work schedule

An area of felled and burned forest in the municipality of Apuí, in Amazonas state, in a photograph from August 2020.

Amazonas records 1,380 fire hotspots in ten days as Brazil recognises emergency in 36 municipalities

Eduardo Bolsonaro at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida in 2022. He has lived in the United States since early 2025.

Brazil and Washington

Brazil ordered Eduardo Bolsonaro's arrest. He lives in Texas on a green card, and any extradition would be Washington's call

The headquarters of the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral in Brasília, the court that runs Brazil's elections and publishes the count, photographed in 2012.

Brazil and Washington

Brazil's October 25 runoff will pick the government that negotiates America's 25% tariff and its access to Brazilian rare earths

The Supreme Court building in Washington, seen from the Library of Congress in 2023.

The Supreme Court takes up the case of a Brazilian jailed without a bond hearing after a decade in the United States

Jorge Messias at his swearing-in as head of Brazil's Advocacia-Geral da União, at the Planalto Palace in Brasília, in January 2023.

Brazil and the United States

Brazil asks its federal police to investigate a $1 million U.S. State Department grant aimed at critics of its Supreme Court

Nelore cattle in Campos Belos, Goiás, in February 2014.

Brazilian beef now faces a 67% duty in China after the annual quota ran out