Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

As the U.S. faces claims of becoming a "banana republic," history shows established Democracies have had no qualms with indicting their leaders in the past.

President Joe Biden pledged to mobilize $20 billion for the Amazon, but that promise remains unfilled. Now is the time to turn words into action by moving boldly on three fronts.

The conservative Fox News anchor said that millions of Brazilian have had their democracy stolen from them.

Jair Bolsonaro supporters, who believe the former president lost the election last year due to election fraud, stormed the National Congress in Brazil.

Brazilian police arrested 300 people after riots on Sunday but the violence continued into Monday.

Two days after the second anniversary of the Capitol riot, similar scenes were seen in Brasília.

It will take years, decades even, for Brazil to recover.

Unsurprisingly, Lula's victory in the presidential runoff was immediately proclaimed and declared sacrosanct.

What happens in Brazil and the U.S. impacts the world for generations to come.

The mass protests come after weeks of Bolsonaro's supporters lodging baseless claims about the legitimacy of the country's elections.

"Changes of government in Colombia and Brazil are almost the final nails in the coffin of the Trump-era policy," Crisis Group's Phil Gunson told Newsweek.

The Russian president was quick to congratulate Brazil's new leftist leader who has also blamed the West for the war in Ukraine.

Under Bolsonaro's presidency, an estimated 16,000 square miles of the Amazon rainforest have been lost. Can Lula end the deforestation as he promises?

Former President Donald Trump urged Brazilians to vote for the incumbent during the second round of the country's presidential election on Sunday.

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva leads incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, and the two will face off later this month.

The Brazilian president faces a formidable challenge from former left-wing president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva who is leading in the polls.

One of the latest polls in the presidential race shows former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva with a 14 point lead over incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.

The far-right Bolsonaro is inching up in the polls against former President Lula da Silva, but time is running out.

Brazil's $61 billion trade surplus in 2021 showed a moment of growth.

"I think Bolsonaro invented that he was contaminated in order to advertise the medicine," former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said.

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took a swipe at Jair Bolsonaro's rhetoric and environmental policies and referred to the president's adviser, Olava de Carvalho.

"Both Haddad and Bolsonaro have high rejection rates, and in the runoff most Brazilians will be voting against the candidate they dislike the most."

"Bolsonaro is a Brazilian version of Trump," Allana Ferreira, a Brasilia-based journalist told Newsweek. She explained that many people think Brazil needs someone with "a strong hand" to remove the current political class.

The far-right politician was shown to be leading in a recent poll, with 22 percent of the vote.

Despite being behind bars, Lula remains popular among Brazilians.

Lula's conviction leaves the 2018 presidential race wide open, raising chances of a victory by a political outsider.

The former Brazilian president has denounced the trial as a farce.

Lula, an extremely popular two-term president who left office in January 2011, faces another trial on graft charges.

The investigation into the popular ex-president forms part of a sweeping anti-corruption probe into political kickbacks from contracts at state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA.

The Supreme Court is already investigating some 50 politicians, including the leaders of both houses of Congress.