Lula da Silva

President Donald Trump on Thursday held a private meeting with socialist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the White House.

Socialist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, May 7, Brazilian government sources claimed to several outlets on Monday.

A poll released on Tuesday found that incumbent President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would trail his top challenger, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, by 0.3 percent in a runoff between them, without enough support in the first round of voting to prevent a runoff.

A survey conducted by Datafolha and published by local outlets on Sunday found that a majority of Brazilians believe that conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro should serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest over a prison cell.

A nationwide presidential election poll released in Brazil this week found that conservative candidate Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro (Liberal Party – Rio de Janeiro) has narrowed the lead of his primary opponent, socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, to bring it nearly to the margin of error.

Brazil and India finalized a deal on critical minerals and rare earths on Saturday, followed by an agreement between Brazil and South Korea on Monday to increase their cooperation on minerals, technology, cultural exchange, and trade.

Prosecutors in Brazil shelved an investigation on Thursday into conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro on charges of “genocide” for his handling of the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

Chile’s outgoing far-left President Gabriel Boric on Monday formally presented the candidacy of socialist former President Michelle Bachelet to become the next U.N. Secretary-General — and announced that her bid is also backed by leftists governments of Brazil and Mexico.

A poll published on Thursday found that slightly over half of Brazilians, 51 percent, believe that socialist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva does not deserve to win a fourth term in office in the October presidential election.

Socialist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pressured President Donald Trump to make changes to his proposed “Board of Peace” to solve global conflicts on Monday, demanding in a phone call that Trump invite the non-existent nation of “Palestine” to participate.

A Brazil presidential election poll found for the first time a lead for Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, in a runoff vote against incumbent socialist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Socialist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva held a friendly phone call on Friday with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.

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.

The leftists governments of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, and Spain released a joint statement over the weekend rejecting the American law enforcement operation in Venezuela that resulted in the capture socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.

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. 

President of Argentina Javier Milei over the weekend welcomed President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign on Venezuela’s socialist Maduro regime during the latest Heads of State summit of the Mercosur trade bloc. Milei urged the bloc’s member states to back the

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.

Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of jailed former President Jair Bolsonaro, announced this weekend that he would run for president in the 2026 election – but would step down from the campaign should his father be freed and allowed to run for a second term.

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.