New York’s Museum of Natural History announced Monday it had canceled a private function booked to take place there that would honor Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. The leader, who has been attacked at home and abroad for policies that critics say threaten the environment and indigenous communities, was due to receive an award at the […]
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Brazil’s Lula fights for freedom as he marks one year in jail
Since entering prison a year ago, Brazil’s former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been spending his days working out in his cell and fighting to prove his innocence. The 73-year-old leftist icon, who has been sentenced to 25 years behind bars in two separate corruption cases, remains determined to challenge the “injustices” he […]
Brazil rejects UN appeal against revising history by denying 1964 military coup
The government of Brazil’s right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro has rejected an appeal by a United Nations expert not to revise Brazilian history by denying a military coup occurred in 1964. In a letter to the UN human rights commission in Geneva made public on Thursday, the government said it “repudiates the baseless allegations” of the […]
Eight killed in Brazil school shooting, two suspects dead
A student cries after a shooting at her school near Sao Paulo, Brazil, where five teenage students were among those killed Two former pupils shot dead eight people, most of them students and staff, at a high school near Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Wednesday before turning their weapons on themselves, authorities said. The two assailants […]