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As the world entered its second year of pandemic lockdowns, supply chain disruptions, and a new era of high fuel prices and inflation, the world’s most essential cargo transport professionals – truckers – took the lead in organizing anti-government protests in nearly every region of the planet.

The election of convicted felon Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the presidency of Brazil in October – a hardline socialist who had, in his previous presidencies, been seen as the leader of the international left – prompted a wave of celebrations among the world’s Marxists that Latin America had finally fallen into near-complete leftist rule.

The nomination of longtime Democrat donor Elizabeth Frawley Bagley to serve as ambassador to Brazil returned to the Senate’s executive calendar this week, making it possible for leadership to rapidly schedule a vote for her alongside other nominees, potentially before the end of the year.

SAO PAULO (AP) — Pelé has a respiratory infection and will remain at the hospital where he’s been since Tuesday.

CARACAS, Venezuela — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party (PL) formally filed a request with Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE) on Tuesday challenging the results of the presidential runoff election held on October 30.

A bizarre scene unfolded in Kerala, India, as mobs of fanatics of the Argentine and Brazilian soccer teams brawled with sticks and iron bars in a cemetery near a FIFA World Cup event, reports detailed on Monday.

Nike’s distributor in Brazil, which has rights to sell the official national team jerseys for the FIFA World Cup, is no longer allowing customers to order personalized jerseys with “Jesus,” “Christ,” or other Christian terms following complaints from African paganists this week.

The Armed Forces of Brazil concluded an audit of the 2022 presidential election this week that neither confirmed nor denied the existence of any irregularities in the race. In a statement on Thursday, however, the Defense Ministry emphasized that its report had not “excluded the possibility of fraud.”

The social media accounts of recently reelected pro-Bolsonaro Brazilian lawmaker Carla Zambelli were suspended this week following an incident in which she pointed a gun, allegedly in self-defense, at a man she claimed was attacking her.

Multiple newspapers in Brazil reported on Friday that the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), the nation’s top election authority, had spent much of the week working to dismantle conservative chat groups on Whatsapp and Telegram in an attempt to “demobilize” massive nationwide roadblocks and protests.

An unnamed driver rammed his car through a crowd of conservative protesters in Mirassol, Sao Paulo state, Brazil on Wednesday, injuring 17 people including two children under 12.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro issued a message to his supporters on Wednesday night urging them to stop blocking highways and threatening supply chains in protest of his electoral defeat, urging more protests “in plazas” and other “legitimate” locations.

A massive fire at a government food storage center in Rio de Janeiro on Monday attracted a roving mob attempting to loot the supplies before they burned, prompting police to shoot bullets into the air to disperse the crowd.

Truckers supporting conservative Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and their allies are currently maintaining 178 roadblocks nationwide, the nation’s transit police announced on Wednesday morning, protesting the election of leftist convicted felon Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Sunday’s presidential election.

CARACAS – Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro revealed on Monday that he held a telephone conversation with Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in which both agreed to “resume the bilateral cooperation agenda” between both countries amidst the upcoming return to power of one of the Venezuelan regime’s most critical allies.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro delivered brief comments on Tuesday – keeping the media waiting for over an hour – addressing growing protests against the election of convicted felon Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to the presidency but failing to address his loss on Sunday.

A coalition of supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro apparently led by commercial truckers has organized roadblocks in 21 of the country’s 26 states in the past 24 hours, protesting the election of socialist convicted felon President-Elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

The Chinese Communist Party is celebrating the return of convicted felon and Brazilian President-Elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to power, branding the hardline socialist an “old friend of the Chinese people” and raising expectations for ties to Beijing in statements on Monday and Tuesday.

Incumbent Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro counted truckers among his most fervent supporters in Sunday’s presidential election.

Hollywood celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio and his Shutter Island co-star Mark Ruffalo celebrated the narrow presidential victory of Brazil’s socialist candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva over incumbent conservative populist Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday.

Leftist leaders of free governments and authoritarian regimes around the world rapidly sent messages of congratulations and support to socialist convicted felon Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for narrowly winning Brazil’s presidential election against incumbent conservative Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, as of press time, has yet to make any public appearances or statements since Sunday’s election, which he lost to socialist convicted felon Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva by little more than a percentage point.

Breitbart World Editor Frances Martel discusses the election in Brazil and its global implications.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was among the many world leaders lining up to congratulate corrupt socialist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Monday over his victory over conservative President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s presidential election.

Brazilians narrowly elected socialist former president and convicted felon Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva their president on Sunday night, prompting left-wing corporate outlets in the United States to declare the vote a stunning rebuke of conservative values.

The top electoral authority in Brazil announced on Sunday evening that 77-year-old hardline socialist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, once convicted and sentenced to over two decades in prison for alleged corruption, had won this year’s presidential election against incumbent conservative Jair Bolsonaro.

President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil and his rival for the nation’s top office, socialist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, will meet for a final debate on Friday before voters choose their next head of state on Sunday.

Brazilian socialist ex-president and current presidential frontrunner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva condemned on Tuesday the “condescending” actions of the nation’s Federal Police (PF) against former Brazilian lawmaker Roberto Jefferson — who this weekend attacked police with a grenade.

The scientific magazine Nature meddled in the Brazilian presidential election on Tuesday with an endorsement of corrupt far-left frontrunner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, admitting the former convict was not “close to anything like perfect,” but declaring conservative rival President Jair Bolsonaro “disastrous” for the planet.

Former Brazilian lawmaker Roberto Jefferson, already serving house arrest under charges of propagating “fake news,” attacked police with a grenade on Sunday as they attempted to place him in custody.

Brazil’s Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE), the federal election oversight body, announced on Thursday the widespread censorship of campaign materials referring to socialist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as “corrupt” or “a thief,” references to his 25-year prison sentence on corruption charges.

More than 1.1 million people tuned into the live broadcast of the Brazilian podcast Flow on Tuesday to listen to far-left socialist presidential candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who took time to, among other things, describe conservative President Jair Bolsonaro as a “pedophile” and accuse soccer star Neymar of cutting a deal with Bolsonaro to avoid prison.

The Associated Press (AP) reported Tuesday that a coalition of major U.S. companies, including Walmart and General Motors, is quietly lobbying the government to make certain import data confidential — a change that would make it much more difficult for journalists and human rights activists to link imported goods to abusive labor practices abroad, including forced labor in China’s Xinjiang province and child labor in Africa.

Incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro and former socialist president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva faced off on Sunday in the first of the several scheduled debates towards the October 30 presidential runoff election between both candidates.

The sordid, sophisticated, and profitable business of illegal migration is exposed in the indictments of several Brazilians who allegedly trafficked cheap, submissive workers into restaurant jobs in Massachusetts.

Multiple polls out of Brazil on Thursday and Friday show the gap between presidential frontrunner Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro narrowing to under five percentage points — the difference between the two during the first round of voting on October 2.