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Seeking a reset, Brazil's Lula heads to China

Brasília (AFP) - Brazil's leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing next week, where he hopes to reinforce trade, discuss international mediation in Ukraine, and reclaim his country's role in global geopolitics.

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Brazil's Lula irks foreign oil companies with new tax

Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has not even been in power for 100 days but has already provoked the wrath of foreign oil companies with the creation of a new tax on crude exports.

AFP

Bolsonaro to hand over undeclared jewels given by Saudis: report

Brasília (AFP) - Lawyers for Jair Bolsonaro say the former Brazilian president has agreed to hand over to authorities jewels gifted by Saudi Arabia and which entered the country without being declared to tax authorities, local media reported Monday.

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Climate change, rampant urbanization fuel Brazil storm disasters

Brasília (AFP) - Climate change and unchecked construction in flood- and landslide-prone areas are making disasters like the violent storm that killed at least 48 people in southeastern Brazil ever more frequent, according to a leading expert.

AFP

Exiled Bolsonaro lives it up in Florida as legal woes grow back home

Ex-Brazilian president faces criminal inquiries, including an investigation into his alleged role in the Brasília uprising

The Guardian - US

After Brazil unrest, painstaking effort to restore damaged treasures

Brasília (AFP) - Randall Felix delicately handles the wood on a 19th century chair whose armrest was ripped off when supporters of Brazil's' far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed Congress earlier this month.

AFP

Brazil's Lula sacks army commander after anti-government riots

Brasília (AFP) - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva sacked the commander of Brazil's army Saturday, two weeks after an election-denying mob loyal to his far-right predecessor ransacked the halls of power in Brasilia.

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Brazil's Lula fires army chief

Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has sacked the country's army chief, Julio Cesar de Arruda, in the wake of riots earlier this month by supporters of former leader Jair Bolsonaro, military sources told AFP Saturday.

AFP

Not 'terrorists': Relatives defend Brazil riot suspects

Brasília (AFP) - Under a scorching sun, a handful of relatives of hundreds of women detained after Brazil's violent January 8 riots waited in vain this week for a chance to see their loved ones.

AFP

Brazil capital's security boosted, 39 charged over uprising

Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian authorities moved Monday to upgrade security at government buildings ransacked by rioters, and formally charged 39 people with crimes against the state in the violent January 8 uprising.

AFP

Brazil's ransacked capital gets security upgrade as round-up continues

Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian authorities moved Monday to upgrade security at government buildings ransacked by rioters, and arrested a person accused of "anti-democratic acts" in a roundup of suspected authors of a violent January 8 uprising.

AFP

The Guardian view on Brazil and the Bolsonaristas: it’s not over yet

Editorial: The violent attack on government buildings in Brasília following Lula’s inauguration should set off alarm bells outside the country too

The Guardian - UK

After the rampage: Brazil’s new leaders to fight hard in wake of ‘insane’ coup attempt

Lula’s government claims it has ‘absolute control’ after storming of capital by Bolsonaro supporters, but failed putsch is not over, say insiders

The Guardian - UK

Brazil tightens net around riot instigators, Bolsonaro in the crosshairs

Brasília (AFP) - Brazil's new leftist government tightened the net around suspected instigators of riots that targeted the seats of power, ordering a probe of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro and arresting his justice minister Saturday.

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The Guardian - UK

Jair Bolsonaro to be investigated as part of inquiry into far-right Brazil riot

Former president shared a video questioning last year’s election result after his supporters stormed Brasília’s democratic institutions

AFP

Brazil's Bolsonaro to be investigated in Jan 8 riot probe

Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro will be included in an investigation into the origins of the January 8 sacking of government buildings in Brasilia, a Supreme Court judge announced Friday.

AFP

Probe sought of Brazil's Bolsonaro for Jan 8 riots

Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian authorities moved Friday to investigate far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro for "instigation and intellectual authorship" of the January 8 sacking of government buildings in Brasilia.

AFP

$1,600 for ice cream: Bolsonaro credit card bill raises eyebrows

Brasília (AFP) - More than $21,000 splurged at a modest restaurant -- $10,700 spent at a bakery in a single day.The public release Friday of ex-president Jair Bolsonaro's official credit card expenditures is raising eyebrows in Brazil.

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Brasilia rioters likely had inside help: Lula

Brasília (AFP) - Brazil intensified a mop-up operation Thursday after the shock ransacking of government buildings in the capital, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said the rioters likely had inside help.

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Democrats push for Bolsonaro to be booted from the U.S. as Brazil investigates riots

Brazil is widening its investigations into how thousands of supporters of former president ransacked government buildings. But with Jair Bolsonaro still in Florida, Democratic lawmakers want him out.

The Guardian - US

More than 70 US and Brazilian lawmakers condemn Trump-Bolsonaro alliance

Exclusive: congresswoman Ilhan Omar leads joint statement focused on Sunday’s riots in Brasília and January 6 insurrection

AFP

Brazil seeks arrest of Bolsonaro ally over Brasilia riots

Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian authorities seeking to punish the mob that stormed the halls of power in Brasilia issued arrest warrants Tuesday for two former senior officials, one of them a close ally of far right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro.

AFP

Brazil releases hundreds after capital riots

Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian authorities on Tuesday released hundreds of people detained in the storming of government buildings by a far-right mob, with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva vowing to "recover the country" after what he called acts of terrorism.

WEKU

The attack on Brazil's Congress was stoked by social media — and by Trump allies

The Guardian - US

Brazil envoy decries ‘grotesque and failed assault’ on democracy

Army and riot police clear Bolsonaro supporters from Brasília as US, Mexico and Canada say they ‘stand by’ democratic institutions

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