Sensational developments in the Federal Police investigation into the assault on the institutions of Brasilia on 8 January 2023: it would have been the former president himself who organized the plot, together with the army leaders. He risks up to 12 years
According to the British weekly, Lula's third term is as promising as the first two: analysts appreciate Minister Haddad's reforms, investors rejoice over the long-awaited rate cut, and even Fitch has raised its rating…
Lula in his third term is facing a challenge: to relaunch Brazil after Bolsonaro's populist parenthesis and the crisis in which he left the country. To pass the test he will have to sweep away some ambiguities, starting…
The coup alarm has ended and the damage count is underway. We are moving towards a parliamentary commission of inquiry. Bolsonaro in hospital, but the Brazilian media are already talking about extradition
Clashes and devastation of the Brazilian Parliament by fanatical supporters of Bolsonaro against the recent inauguration of the new president Lula - Police accused
The candidate on the left is ahead of the outgoing president. The polls show him as a winner, but the gap between the two candidates narrows: 4-5 points
The centre-left leader, former president from 2003 to 2011, came close to winning the first round but everything was postponed until 30 October. Bolsonaro chases but denies the polls. Abstention at 20%, the votes of the centrists will be decisive
On Sunday 2 October 156 million Brazilians are called to the polls: Bolsonaro is given up for defeat, perhaps already in the first round according to some polls. Brazil is the first country in the world for investments from China. The economy is struggling but it seems…
In Brazil, the race for the presidential elections in October begins: the markets are also voting for Lula, who is not formally a candidate yet, but Bolsonaro's probable departure from the scene promises to be turbulent
An unprecedented attack launched by the president against the highest judicial body, accused of political arrests: "It no longer has a reason to exist". In the streets, millions of Bolsonaro supporters raise tension: we are moving towards a state of emergency -…
While India is going through a tragic phase, the situation is not improving even in Brazil, which is the second country in the world for the number of deaths: there are more than 400.000, more than 12% of the world total. And Bolsonaro ends up (finally) under investigation
The Supreme Tribunal annulled all the sentences against the former president, who can now return to the political scene and challenge Bolsonaro in the 2022 presidential elections.
With 200 deaths from Covid and about 40 million people below the poverty line, Brazil staggers and the controversial president Bolsonaro plunges in the polls
Despite a superficial management of the emergency, Bolsonaro is consolidating his popularity and the IMF has improved its 2020 GDP estimates: from -9 to -5,8%.
INTERVIEW WITH JOSE' SERRA, economist, former minister and twice candidate for the presidency of Brazil: "Bolsonaro is a danger to the institutions, but impeachment is not feasible today" - "Social Democrats and the left must form a common front against Bolsonaro" -…
The health emergency in the South American country is getting worse day by day, which is becoming the new epicenter of the epidemic - But the president continues to maramalde and threatens to leave the WHO - VIDEO.
In the South American country it is not only the Covid-19 epidemic that is growing at a frenetic pace: the deforestation of the lungs of the world is also proceeding, taking advantage of the media attention all directed towards the virus. In 2020, an area equal to that of Campania will be deforested.…
While Imperial College London warns that Brazil has the highest infection rate in the world, the president diverts attention from the announced catastrophe with political maneuvers that have the sole purpose of eliminating uncomfortable allies.
Since yesterday, Brazil has exceeded 5.000 dead and has not yet applied a nationwide lockdown - The president's popularity is faltering but he: "I don't work miracles".
The superminister of Justice, former magistrate of the Lava Jato operation (the Brazilian Clean Hands), which sent President Lula to prison, has resigned. Bolsonaro's leadership wobbles.
After repeated slips and the unforgivable initial underestimation of the Coronavirus, the Brazilian president Bolsonaro has lost a lot of consensus and has in fact been commissioned by the military who have greatly increased their weight in the government while oil and the…
A bit like Salvini in Italy and Trump in America, the new Brazilian president is governing with insults on Twitter and fake news - The analysis of an Italian journalist living in Brazil: "There is a deep political crisis and…
On January 1, the new president of Brazil takes office, elected last November against all predictions on the eve: just over 30 years after the end of the military dictatorship, the shadow of the extreme right returns to the South American country - VIDEO.
Atradius expects growth to slowly rise (+1,1% this year and +2,3% in 2019), in a scenario that has seen a strong depreciation of the real (-25%), inflation at +4,5% and unemployment at 12%. Faced with opportunities for Italian exports of…
Curiously, but not too much, Sergio Moro, the judge of Lava Jato, the Brazilian Mani Pulite, was chosen by the new president Bolsonaro as Minister of Justice and accepted the position - Just like Di Pietro, who first refused to enter…
CIO Flash Bulletin Lombard Odier - In a very delicate moment in green-gold history, Brazilian voters have chosen to rely on the man of the extreme right, nostalgic of the military dictatorship that oppressed Brazil until 1985 - Here are the implications…
As predicted, the far-right candidate overtook Fernando Haddad of the Workers' Party in the ballot - Net result and historic turning point in Brazilian politics: for the first time since the redemocratization of 1985, a man returns to power…
Sunday, October 28, 142 million Brazilians return to the polls for the decisive ballot, which sees the candidate of the ultra-right Jair Bolsonaro challenge the socialist Fernando Haddad, Lula's henchman and former mayor of São Paulo - The polls show…
After the landslide victory in the first round, the consensus around the far-right candidate begins to waver: the economist Paulo Guedes, indicated as the future finance minister, is being investigated, and the stock market has cooled down after the latest utterances by…
FIDELITY INTERNATIONAL REPORT - In the short term, Bolsonaro's victory in the first round of the presidential elections will probably give breath to Brazil's rally on the markets even if in a climate of high volatility - But in the medium term…
In the first round of the Brazilian elections, the candidate of the extreme right triumphed, with a result better than expected - But in the October 28 run-off, the progressive Haddad can still hope to reverse the populist wave - If Brazil went…
As expected, the right-wing candidate won the first round of the Brazilian presidential elections: Bolsonaro gathered 46,2% of the votes against 28,9 for Haddad (Lula's dolphin) but the real games will be played at…
INTERVIEW with GIULIO SAPELLI, economist and great expert on Latin America: "The leader of the extreme right is not a new face and the markets don't mind at all: he is ahead in the polls but in the second round Lula's dolphin will win"…
After Lula's forfeit, ineligible as he was in prison, the prices of his deputy Haddad, a 55-year-old lawyer of Lebanese origins, exponent of the moderate wing of the Workers' Party, are on the rise: according to the polls, he would win, even if for now...
The stabbing of the right-wing leader during a rally has thrown Brazil even further into chaos and strengthened nostalgia for the strong role of the military - Next month's elections will be a real litmus test of the…
The lists for the presidential elections on 7 October are official: there are 13 candidates and the favorite is always Lula, who however will have to wait for the outcome of the appeals against his final 12-year sentence, for which…
