Lula (Brazil)

A 7.2 foreshock and 7.5 mainshock 39 seconds apart destroyed buildings near La Guaira and Caracas; USGS gives 44% odds the toll exceeds 10,000; confirmed dead rises as teams clear rubble

A third straight quarter-point cut paired with a hawkish communiqué, election-year fiscal stimulus and El Niño flagged as upside risks

Four years two months and ineligibility to 2038 for coercion, tried in absentia for seeking US sanctions on the court trying his father

At 80, Lula runs for an unprecedented fourth term with the right's standard-bearer dogged by scandal and his father jailed

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

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

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