At 80, Lula runs for an unprecedented fourth term with the right's standard-bearer dogged by scandal and his father jailed
Brazil
Brussels bans Brazilian meat, poultry and honey from September over growth-promoter use, weeks after Mercosur-EU took provisional effect
The chamber blocks AGU Jorge Messias 42–34 in a historic rebuke tied to its own president; Lula sends the name back
A third straight quarter-point cut paired with a hawkish communiqué — election-year fiscal stimulus and El Niño flagged as upside risks
A 30-day deadline lapses, Washington moves on a 25% levy, and Lula readies a retaliation law months before facing Flávio Bolsonaro
Jailed and barred, Jair Bolsonaro hands the flag to Senator Flávio; an 80-year-old Lula seeks a fourth term with the race tied
Four years two months and ineligibility to 2038 for coercion — tried in absentia for seeking US sanctions on the court trying his father
The right's 2026 candidate confirms a recording asking ex-banker Daniel Vorcaro to release money for a biopic of his father, widening Lula's lead
From Algeria in July to South Sudan's long-delayed vote in December — who votes, when, and where power actually turns over