By Bernardo Caram BRASILIA (Reuters) – Both of Brazil’s presidential candidates, President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, have proposed changes to the constitutional spending limit…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has widened his lead over incumbent Jair Bolsonaro to 13 percentage points less than one week ahead of…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil’s presidential frontrunner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva slightly boosted his lead over incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro to 14 percentage points in a poll published on Thursday…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil presidential candidate Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva slightly extended his lead over President Jair Bolsonaro less than two weeks before the South American country’s election, a…
By Anthony Boadle and Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) – As President Jair Bolsonaro lays the groundwork to contest a potential defeat in an October election, Brazil’s courts, congressional leadership, business…
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Brazil’s presidential hopeful Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leads incumbent Jair Bolsonaro by 12 points, a Thursday poll showed, while the far-right leader seeking reelection has…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s lead over incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro has narrowed to 8 percentage points from 10 ahead of the October…
By Ricardo Brito, Lisandra Paraguassu and Steven Grattan BRASILIA (Reuters) – The attempted assassination of Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner by a Brazilian has forced Brazil’s main presidential…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has retained his strong lead over incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro ahead of the country’s October election, a Genial/Quaest…
(Reuters) -Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva maintains a 12-percentage-point lead over far-right incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro ahead of the October election, according to a new poll published on Monday.…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s main presidential candidates took their gloves off on Sunday and laid into each other in the first presidential debate for the October general election with…
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday denied that he has any intention of carrying out a coup if he loses October’s election, adding that he rejects…
By Gabriel Stargardter RIO DE JANEIRO – As President Jair Bolsonaro has aggressively sought to boost gun ownership in Brazil, documents obtained by Reuters reveal one key source of resistance…
BRASILIA – Brazil’s Congress on Wednesday approved a major spending package that President Jair Bolsonaro is banking on to lift his flagging re-election hopes, despite expectations it will fan double-digit…
By Jake Spring and Anthony Boadle ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil – Six tribes from Brazil’s remote Javari Valley packed into an assembly hall on June 11 to lament the disappearance…
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has vetoed a Congress-passed measure that would block airlines from charging for checked baggage on their flights, his office said on Wednesday, sending…
By Bernardo Caram BRASILIA – Tax cuts are likely to cost over 110 billion reais ($21.5 billion) in Brazilian tax revenue this year, as President Jair Bolsonaro tries to ease…
SAO PAULO – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday cast doubt on the 2020 election victory of U.S. President Joe Biden, just two days before they are due to meet…
SAO PAULO – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and business magnate Elon Musk are scheduled to meet in Sao Paulo on Friday, Brazilian daily O Globo reported late Thursday. The two…
By Gram Slattery and Roberto Samora RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil’s Petrobras posted a first-quarter net income that beat forecasts on Thursday, just minutes after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro railed…
By Eduardo Simões and Lisandra Paraguassu SAO PAULO – Brazilian right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro and his main rival, former leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, staged competing rallies on…
RIO DE JANEIRO – Washington should make it clear to the “messianic” Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro that any effort to undermine his country’s elections would trigger multilateral sanctions, a newly…
SAO PAULO – Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro said on Saturday that demonstrations scheduled for Sunday are not meant as protest, but to show “the desire that everyone abides by the…
BRASILIA – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has decided against an additional cut in the IPI industrial tax because of questions about the legality of the measure, according to two sources…
– There is a possibility of replacing Petrobras’ chief executive, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said on Wednesday, adding further pressure to the state-run oil company’s pricing policy. In an interview…