Twist in the Brazilian oil giant: the president wants to change the top management and gives the green light to the extra coupon. The state is the main shareholder and would collect 16 billion reais. The stock lost 5% on Thursday in…
Macron flies to Brazil from Lula for three days full of events spread across four cities, including Belem, at the gates of the Amazon. Wars, EU-Mercosur agreement, Haiti and climate are the hot topics. The two presidents linked by the decline in…
The oil giant Petrobras has published disappointing accounts for 2023, waiving the extra coupon under pressure from the government (which is its main shareholder). The stock burns almost 13 billion euros on the stock market, but the president: "Petrobras invests in the transition...
Less than a year into his third term, the Brazilian president has turned around the oil giant and brought home the long-awaited reform of the tax system. All-time record for the stock market index, above 131.000 points
A recent book by a scholar from Columbia University in New York reveals how income and tax disparities in the South American country are increasingly acute: half of GDP growth ends up in the richest 5%. But…
The president's approval rating has peaked at 60% since August. Foreign investments return, positive signals from the stock market, but stumbles in the Amazon and war in Ukraine and the Middle East cause financial confidence to falter
Lula's proposal animates the BRICS summit in South Africa on which the spotlights of the world are turned on
The 63-year-old former mayor of Bogota is the first socialist president in the history of the South American country: elected 12 months ago, his popularity is still moderate but the results, to date, don't prove him right
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…
On the financial markets, the main markets continued to proceed in random order also in the month of May, which was marked by the controversial meeting of all national leaders, invited to Brasilia by President Lula, by galloping Argentine inflation and…
The European law that bans the import of products derived from deforestation on the one hand could benefit China, on the other it worries Brazilian farms
Brazil and China's positioning on the Russia-Ukraine war will be the hot topic of the meeting between Lula and Xi Jinping - Brazil seeks technology partnerships with the Asian giant and China revives investments in Latin America
More shadows than lights in Brazilian President Lula's visit to Washington on Friday: relaxed tones, but distant positions especially on the war in Ukraine. And US membership in the Amazon Fund does not satisfy Brasilia
The Brazilian Stock Exchange survived the assault on Brasilia without damage but fears the government's choices on privatisation. Spotlight on Petrobras: dividends and refinery sales. Here is the latest news
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
On New Year's Day, Lula's third presidential term begins in Brazil and he wants to immediately give a sign of change with the fight against hunger and poverty and the centrality of the climate and the Amazon in his agenda
Lula narrowly won the runoff but is the first Brazilian president to win a third term
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…
The polls give Lula a clear advantage - Bolsonaro overwhelmed by controversies and scandals: the latest on the privatization of Petrobras - Meanwhile, the country is once again suffering from hunger
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
The former president of the South American country was sentenced on appeal to 12 years for corruption and money laundering and is still being held in Curitiba, but the Supreme Court has decided that prison must await the final sentence.
The Intercept, the news site founded by Glenn Greenwald, has published classified documents proving that the Brazilian Mani Pulite judge, now Bolsonaro's minister, was plotting with other prosecutors to oust the former president from the electoral race.
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…
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 right-wing candidate, leading the polls, was stabbed and due to the wound he is forced to end the electoral campaign early - The attacker is a supporter of Lula, the former president is serving a 12-year sentence…
After a 10-hour session, Brazil's Electoral Tribunal decided in an almost unanimous vote that the former president, currently in prison for a 12-year sentence, will not be able to run in the October 7 elections - 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…
The former Head of State, who must serve a 12-year sentence for corruption and money laundering, remains in prison at the end of a sensational judicial clash
The former president of Brazil, sentenced to 12 years for corruption and money laundering but who has always proclaimed himself innocent, to the point of standing again in the elections next October (with the polls still giving him the favourite, despite being in prison),…
The secretary of the FIM Cisl metalworkers, with Gianni Alioti (the union's international office), published a manifesto-appeal in favor of the condemned ex-president. "A story dotted with abuses of power, a campaign orchestrated by oligarchs, military and reactionary political forces to prevent it…
The former president of Brazil surrendered to the Policia Federal of Curitiba: he is sentenced to 12 years in prison for corruption and money laundering - Tensions among his supporters in Sao Paulo: 8 injured.
The story that has shaken Brazil in recent days comes to a peaceful end: former president Lula, sentenced to 12 years in prison in the context of the Lava Jato scandal, has finally decided to turn himself in.
The former president, much loved by the people, will not hand himself over to the police within the deadline given to him. "Lula is innocent and an innocent doesn't give himself up like that", his supporters declare.
The former president of Brazil, sentenced to 12 years for corruption and money laundering, had asked the Federal Supreme Court to avoid the prison sentence, so that he could run for the next presidential elections in October - Now he risks imprisonment since…
The Porto Alegre Tribunal condemns the former president of Brazil again for corruption in the Petrobras case by ousting him from the race for the next presidential elections - But a part of Brazil, which still loves him and which yesterday fell into…
The former Brazilian president was accused of corruption and money laundering in the context of the Lava Jato maxi investigation, the one that investigates the Petrobras scandal among others - however Lula will not go to prison until the appeal sentence.
Decisive hours for Brazil and for President Dilma Rousseff: tonight the Chamber will vote on her impeachment and then the discussion will move to the Senate - Dilma and Lula cry out for the coup orchestrated by the judiciary and the opposition but their…
After the publication of the intercepted phone call between Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor Lula, tension has risen further in public opinion and other violent clashes have broken out in the streets and squares of the largest cities in the South American country.
Tension is growing among the population in Brazil after the swearing-in of former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as the new minister of Dilma Rousseff's government: a judge in the green-gold capital has in fact decreed the suspension of the appointment of…
The former president will accept the seat in the government of his dauphin Dilma Rousseff, in order to guarantee himself immunity from possible precautionary measures by the judiciary, which is indicting him for the Petrobras scandal.
The São Paulo prosecutor suspects that Lula and his wife are the real owners of a super penthouse owned by the brick holding company Oas, involved in the "Lava Jato" investigation, which has already brought dozens of politicians, managers, entrepreneurs to prison...
Searches in the home and office of the former president of Brazil, who was forced to testify - "There is evidence that former president Lula received money from the internal Petrobras scheme," the investigators wrote.
