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Former first lady of Brazil Michelle Bolsonaro told reporters on Wednesday that she saw her husband Jair Bolsonaro “asking God to take him, because he couldn’t take the pain anymore” during a recent medical examination following a fall that left him with a head injury.

Latin American leaders aligned with the White House’s pro-freedom stance celebrated the arrest and extradition of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro on Saturday morning, extended support to the exiled winner of the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election, Edmundo González.

Conservative former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro will undergo surgery on Christmas Day on Thursday to repair two inguinal hernias, local outlets reported. 

Socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil confirmed on Thursday he will veto a bill passing both chambers of the Brazilian Congress that reduces the sentence of conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro, currently serving 27 years in prison on dubious “coup” charges.

The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies in the early morning hours of Wednesday passed a bill calling for reduced sentencing to those convicted of “anti-democratic acts” that could significantly reduce conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro’s sentence if it becomes law.

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order removing tariffs on Brazilian coffee, beef, and other agricultural products entering the U.S.

Pope Leo XIV addressed bishops at the United Nations’ COP30 climate alarmism summit on Monday, lamenting that not enough political leaders follow the Paris climate agreement and demanding more “political will” to stop alleged climate change.

The top United Nations official on climate policy sent a letter to the government of Brazil, Bloomberg revealed on Thursday, complaining of poor security and quality of life conditions at the site of COP30, the annual U.N. climate alarmism conference.

The Brazil-hosted COP30 climate alarmism high-level summit had the lowest attendance turnout by world leaders in the past four years.

Several attendees at the COP30 climate conference in Belem, Brazil on Thursday vented their fury against President Donald Trump, who has challenged the claims of the climate movement, and did not attend the meeting or send any high-level representatives of his administration.

A severe shortage of adequate lodging offerings in the Brazilian city of Belém prompted local “love” motels, designed to accommodate brief sexual trysts, to adjust their raunchy facilities to house diplomats and participants of the ongoing COP30 climate alarmism summit, CNN and other outlets reported.

A rented boat with hotel-like facilities that Brazilian radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his delegation will use throughout the COP30 climate alarmism summit will consume at least 4,000 liters of diesel fuel, the outlet Poder 360 reported Wednesday.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, the jihadist previously known as “Abu Mohammed al-Jolani,” arrived in Belém, Brazil, for COP30.

Rio de Janeiro’s Civil Police on early Thursday morning updated the official death toll of Tuesday’s massive police raid against the deadly Comando Vermelho (“Red Command”) drug-trafficking gang from an initial 64 to 121.

At least 64 individuals died in a massive police raid in Rio de Janeiro against Comando Vermelho, one of the country’s deadliest gangs.

Radical leftist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Monday that he will reach a “definitive solution” trade deal with President Donald Trump “in a few days” after meeting with Trump in Malaysia on Sunday.

President Donald Trump will be conducting high-stakes diplomacy during his trip to Asia next week. Trump will attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Malaysia on Sunday, followed by the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Meeting in South Korea, and possibly a bilateral meeting with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping on Thursday. 

Brazil’s radical socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva confirmed on Thursday that he will run for a fourth presidential term in next year’s elections.

Relatives and allies of former President Jair Bolsonaro led a peaceful walk in Brasília calling for amnesty for the January 8 protesters.

Both President Donald Trump and socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil confirmed on Monday that they shared a phone call to discuss the deterioration of diplomatic relations between their countries, a result of Lula’s persecution of conservatives in the country.

Conservative former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro, recently diagnosed with skin cancer, suffered a new health complication on Monday, prompting an urgent visit from his head doctor Cláudio Birolini.

The leftists presidents of Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, and the Prime Minister of Spain on Wednesday hosted a meeting “in defense of democracy” in New York to address the “risks” of growing conservative movements in the world.

Radical socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil opened the U.N. General Assembly by bashing Trump without naming him.

The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was greeted by a boisterous crowd of protesters in front of his hotel in New York City.

Socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil arrived in New York to open the U.N. General Assembly’s annual “high-level debate.”

Socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil told the BBC in an interview published on Wednesday that his government would have prosecuted President Donald Trump in response to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot should it have happened in his country.

Conservative former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro was diagnosed with skin cancer, his medical team revealed on Wednesday.

Reports on Tuesday indicated that the government of Brazil is concerned that the administration of President Donald Trump would fail to offer visas to members of socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s entourage for the United Nations General Assembly and may limit the number of people going.

Brazilian Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Monday gave Brazil’s federal police a 24-hour deadline to explain an alleged “delay” in conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro’s return to his house arrest after he underwent a surgical procedure on Sunday, local outlets reported.

The far-left New York Times on Sunday published an opinion piece by Brazilian radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva criticizing President Donald Trump’s tariff on Brazil and other actions in response to the political persecution of Jair Bolsonaro, who was sentenced to 27 years in prison on dubious “crimes against democracy” charges.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a statement on Thursday, immediately following the news that former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro had been sentenced to 27 years in prison, vowing that America would “respond accordingly” to what he deemed a human rights abuse.

Brazil’s Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) on Thursday convicted conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro and sentenced him to 27 years and 3 months prison for his alleged role in a “failed coup attempt,” marking the first time that a former president of Brazil is convicted for “crimes against democracy.”

Genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping commanded the members of BRICS, a security and trade bloc designed to undermine the United States, on Monday to “jointly defend multilateralism” during a virtual “summit.”

Socialist Brazilian President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva welcomed his Panamanian counterpart José Raúl Mulino on Thursday to sign several bilateral agreement and support Panama’s control of the Panama Canal.