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The Far Right Wins The First Round In Brazil

October 6, 2026 Pablo Meriguet, BreakThrough News. , , , , ,
On October 4, over 150 million Brazilians were called to the polls to elect their president, deputies, and governors, and to replace the majority of senators. The elections, for many, brought a major surprise. Although polls indicated a lead for the incumbent president, progressive Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva, far-right Senator Flávio Bolsonaro clinched first place. Flávio is the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro who is currently serving a 27-year sentence for his involvement in an attempted coup against Lula in 2022. According to the final tally, Bolsonaro received 47.03% of the vote (56 million votes) while Lula received 45.16%, nearly 54 million votes.

Brazil’s Election Is A Regional Battleground

October 4, 2026 Pablo Meriguet, BreakThrough News. , , , ,
Brazil’s presidential elections are sparking reactions across the region. The economic (and, by extension, geopolitical) importance of this South American giant leaves no regional politician or social organization indifferent, as they know that much of the continent’s future is at stake at the Brazilian polls. Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro (who is in prison for conspiring to carry out a coup d’état against Lula da Silva), has received explicit support from Argentine President Javier Milei – a move that cost Buenos Aires a diplomatic crisis with Brasília due to the Argentine leader’s anti-Lula statements made on Brazilian soil.

The Critical Minerals Beneath The Trump Corollary

October 2, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. , , ,
The map of the new war over minerals stretches from the lithium flats of South America to the rare-earth deposits of Greenland. Its vocabulary is familiar: supply-chain resilience, national security, diversification, and partnership. Beneath these neutral phrases lies an older project. The United States wants to reorganise the mineral wealth of the Western Hemisphere around its own industrial and military needs while keeping China at arm’s length. The latest name for this ambition is President Donald Trump’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 – crudely nicknamed the ‘Donroe Doctrine’. The joke is crude, but the politics are not.

Defend Brazil’s Sovereignty Against Trump’s Aggression

September 28, 2026 Francisco Dominguez, Orinoco Tribune. , , ,
Brazil goes to the polls on 4 October 2026 to elect its next president for the 2026-2030 period. Unsurprisingly, as it has done elsewhere in Latin America, the Trump administration is overtly and intensely interfering in favour of the far-right candidate, Flavio Bolsonaro (Jair Bolsonaro’s son) and against the incumbent, Inácio Lula da Silva.  In July 2025, US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, imposed sanctions on Brazil’s Supreme Court president, Alexandre de Moraes for having had the temerity to preside over the trial of Jair Bolsonaro and associates, for their involvement in a violent coup attempt in January 8 2023, aimed at overturning Lula’s 2022 electoral victory.

Brazil: Washington And The Assault On Its Sovereignty

September 9, 2026 Pablo Jofré Leal, Resumen English. , , , ,
A contest that will decisively influence the balance of power in Latin America and play a significant role in the consolidation of the Global South as we look toward the coming decade. On the Brazilian political stage, under intense external pressure—with the United States actively participating by backing the far right represented by Flavio Bolsonaro—as a battering ram against the sovereignty of the South American giant. This is not merely an electoral struggle between two opposing models, but the unfolding of an interventionist script orchestrated from Washington that seeks to undermine the strategic autonomy of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s government by openly promoting the Bolsonaro clan and its far-right operatives around the world.

United States Meddling In Brazilian Elections

August 19, 2026 Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News. , , , ,
The United States is interfering in the Brazilian presidential elections, pressuring the Brazilian electorate into voting for right-wing candidate Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of disgraced former president, Jair Bolsonaro. If that does not work and President Lula da Silva secures a fourth term in office, the groundwork is already being laid for a potential military intervention. From sanctions and economic warfare, to coaching influencers and journalists on how best to attack the left-wing government, the Trump administration is doing everything it can to overthrow Lula. 

Brazil: Lula’s Government Decrees Land Expropriation For Commune

August 3, 2026 Resumen English. , , ,
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed the land expropriation decree that declares the land occupied by the Irmã Alberta Land Commune in São Paulo to be in the public interest. The government measure, made official through the Official Gazette of the Union, grants land title to advance the agrarian reform policy and resolve a dispute that has lasted for more than two decades. The administrative decision directly benefits dozens of families affiliated with the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) who have lived on the property since 2002.

The Revolt Against US Payment Monopolies

July 17, 2026 Struggle - La Lucha. , , , ,
On July 15, 2026, Washington announced a new 25% tariff on Brazilian goods, taking effect July 22 — a punishment aimed at protecting U.S. payment monopolies. Pix, Brazil’s public instant-payment system, cuts Visa and Mastercard out of millions of transactions. In July 2025, Trump imposed a 50% tariff on Brazilian goods in a failed attempt to stop the prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was later sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting a coup. When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down those tariffs in February 2026, Washington tried again.

Brazilian Cooperatives: The Path To A Green Economy

April 25, 2026 Bernard Marszalek, Grassroots Economic Organizing. , , , ,
The UN declared 2025 the International Year of Cooperatives. The theme of the year—"Cooperatives Build a Better World”—provided a splendid opportunity for the worldwide cooperative movement to mark its existence as vital to building a better world by limiting the effects of climate change. Unfortunately, that didn’t occur. To be more precise, it didn’t occur with the bureaucrats associated with various top-heavy international organizations that represent the cooperative economic sector on the world stage. However, the Organization of Brazilian Cooperatives (OCB) did take a stand to support the UN Climate Summit, COP30, held in Belem, Brazil on the edge of the Amazon rainforest.

Major Indigenous Protest In Brazil Targets Belo Sun Gold Mine Project

April 12, 2026 Amazon Watch, Intercontinental Cry. , , ,
Brasilia, Brazil – Thousands of Indigenous people marched in Brazil’s capital yesterday, during the second day of the 2026 Free Land Camp (ATL), the country’s largest Indigenous mobilization, to denounce land rights violations driven by large-scale mining, agribusiness, and logging projects. Leaders from the Xingu River condemned the Canadian company Belo Sun’s proposed Volta Grande mega-mine as emblematic of the current assault on Indigenous territorial rights and the failure to consult communities threatened by industrial projects.

Brazil: Workers, Social Movements Organize ‘Oil For Cuba’ Campaign

February 15, 2026 The Brazilian Federation of Oil Workers, Resumen English. , , , ,
On Friday, February 13, the FUP sent a letter to Petrobras’ Executive Board of Logistics, Marketing, and Markets, requesting a meeting to discuss the possibility of sending emergency fuel to Cuba. Social organizations, popular movements, and oil workers are coordinating the Petróleo para Cuba (Oil for Cuba) campaign to pressure the Brazilian government and Petrobras to send emergency fuel to the Caribbean country, which is being suffocated by additional sanctions imposed by the Trump administration. With the support of the two national oil workers’ federations (FUP and FNP), the initiative brings together the Brazilian Movement of Solidarity with Cuba and Just Causes, the José Martí Cultural Association, popular entities, trade unions, and political parties.

Brazil Calls Emergency CELAC Meeting In Response To US Attack

January 4, 2026 TeleSur, Orinoco Tribune. , , , ,
The Brazilian government has called for an emergency meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to address the US attack against Venezuela and the illegal abduction of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores. The acting foreign affairs minister of Brazil, María Laura da Rocha, stated on Saturday, January 3, that “a ministerial meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States has been convened tomorrow [Sunday] at 2:00 p.m. local time in Brasilia, in which all countries of the region will participate.”

Over 300,000 Marched In The Black Women’s March In Brasilia

November 29, 2025 Brunna Ramos and Flavia Quirino, People's Dispatch. , , , ,
From all over the country and from more than 40 nations, Black women began to arrive in the federal capital last week for one of the most important political mobilizations of the decade. This new edition of the National Black Women’s March brought not only the symbolic weight of memory, but also the affirmation that the historical moment calls for more protagonism, more confrontation of institutional racism, more public policies, and more spaces in power for those who sustain the country and continue to be most affected by inequalities.

Lessons For Climate Advocates From Bill Gates ‘Climate Hack’

November 28, 2025 Liam Kavanagh, DeSmog. , , ,
Many were frustrated, justifiably, by Bill Gates’ ability to steal headlines ahead of this year’s just-concluded round of U.N. climate talks, COP30. Gates did so by telling the climate community, on his blog, what he believes is a ‘hard truth’: that we are ‘diverting resources from the most effective things that should be done to to improve life in a warming world,’ notably fighting poverty and disease, including by boosting economic growth. By focusing on limiting the rise in average global temperatures as the sole metric of success, climate advocates are missing opportunities to ‘prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions who live in the world’s poorest countries.’

COP30 Backpedals On Climate Action

November 23, 2025 Bob Berwyn, Scheer Post. , , , ,
Belem, Brazil—After negotiators at COP30 retreated from meaningful climate action by failing to specifically mention the need to stop using fossil fuels in the final conference documents published Saturday, the disappointment inside the COP30 conference center was as pervasive as the diesel fumes from the generators outside the tent. This year’s United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was billed as the “COP of Truth” by host country Brazil, but it could go down in history “as the deadliest talk show ever,” said Harjeet Singh, founding director of the Satat Sampada Climate Foundation in India and strategic advisor to the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative.
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