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Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad claimed on Monday that alleged “far-right forces” operating with the White House forced the cancellation of a meeting he had scheduled with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

A Brazilian hotel in downtown Belém recently went viral on social media after it “rebranded” for the upcoming COP30 climate alarmism summit and made its rooms 100 times more expensive – defying government efforts to solve the city’s exorbitant lodging prices ahead of the event, the outlet G1 reported on Thursday.

China is willing to assist and deepen its cooperation with fellow BRICS founder nation Brazil against the “external uncertainties” of the United States and President Donald Trump’s tariff policy, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday.

Five Brazilian senators began impeachment proceedings against Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, whom Trump sanctioned for human rights abuses.

A prospective deal on Brazil’s critical and rare earth minerals could be included in ongoing tariff negotiations with the United States, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Monday.

Police placed conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro under house arrest on Monday night by order of Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes for allegedly breaking the restrictions imposed on him after Bolsonaro’s sons published footage of him on social media.

Thousands of supporters of conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro peacefully marched in 62 Brazilian cities on Sunday.

A report claimed that U.S. sanctions on Alexandre de Moraes have caused a visible rift at Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF).

The administration of President Donald Trump identified Brazil as a national security threat on Wednesday and imposed human rights sanctions on Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes.

President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders on Wednesday–one to close the de minimis loophole, which long exempted low-value import shipments into the United States from duties, and another to hike tariffs on Brazil to 50 percent. The Suspending

Radical leftist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will not behave like his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro and “wag his tail” or say “I love you” to Washington in prospective U.S.-Brazil tariff talks, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Tuesday.

German carmaker Volkswagen trapped and effectively enslaved hundreds of Brazilian workers at a cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon between 1977 and 1987, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing the work of an intrepid Catholic priest to document the atrocity.

Radical leftist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that former President Jair Bolsonaro must “pay for the shit he did.”

The American embassy in Brazil published a Portuguese-language announcement on Wednesday urging Brazilians in the United States illegally to leave the country, comparing them to the classic movie alien E.T.

Far-left President of Chile Gabriel Boric and the leftist heads of government of Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, and Spain vowed on Monday to “advance global cooperation and social justice” at a gathering hosted by Boric in Santiago.

Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes threatened to arrest conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio imposed U.S. visa restrictions over the weekend on Brazil Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes in response to his involvement in the censorship of the free speech rights of Americans and the political “witch hunt” against former President Jair Bolsonaro.

Brazil’s Federal Police (PF) raided conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro’s home in Brasília on Friday morning.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro published a letter that he received from President Donald Trump expressing support.

Conservative former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro said on Tuesday that he is “passionate” about President Donald Trump and America.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Wednesday warned Brazil, China, India, and other heavy buyers of Russian oil they could face stiff secondary sanctions if they keep doing business with Moscow.

Prosecutor General of Brazil Paulo Gonet called on Monday for the conviction of conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro during his closing arguments in the ongoing “coup” trial against Bolsonaro.

Luís Roberto Barroso — head of Brazil’s top court, the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) — issued a public letter on Sunday refuting President Donald Trump’s reasons to impose a 50-percent tariff on the South American country, which will go into effect on August 1.

Radical leftist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Thursday that Brazil will reciprocate the United States’ 50-percent tariff on August 1 if no “solution” is found through diplomatic channels before the deadline.

China and Brazil signed a memorandum of understanding, Chinese state media reported on Wednesday, to explore the possibility of jointly building a transcontinental railroad from the east coast of Brazil to the west coast of Peru – directly to a port funded and partially owned by Beijing.

President Donald Trump announced the imposition of a 50-percent tariff on Wednesday on Brazilian products sent into the United States, citing the “witch hunt” against conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro, which he described as an “international disgrace.”

President Donald Trump published a message on Monday in defense of longtime ally Jair Bolsonaro, who served as president of Brazil during Trump’s first term, accusing the Brazilian judiciary of doing a “terrible thing” by launching multiple criminal investigations against him and banning him from running for office.

Allegations of negligence and incompetency surround the death of a Brazilian female tourist who fell off a cliff next to an active volcano in Indonesia and efforts to save her proved futile.

The South China Morning Post, citing anonymous sources, reported on Tuesday that genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping will be skipping the upcoming BRICS summit in Brazil due to a “scheduling conflict,” the first time in the history of the coalition that Xi would be absent.

Latin America’s far-left governments and Iran’s top allies in the region over the weekend rallied in defense of the rogue Islamic regime after the United States launched strikes against three Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday.

Seemingly defying all odds, more than a dozen people somehow survived a ride on a hot air balloon that caught fire, rose skyward, then tumbled to the ground in Brazil — killing at least 8 who were on board.

Brazilian automobile industry executives and labor leaders are growing uneasy about the flood of cheap electric vehicles (EVs) pouring in from China, because the Chinese onslaught is crushing Brazilian manufacturing.

Brazil’s Federal Police on Tuesday indicted Carlos Bolsonaro, son of conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro, and more than 30 others.