World
South America
Putting Bento Rodrigues back on the map after the dam disaster
Three years since a BHP co-owned iron ore mining waste dam destroyed the lives of 19 people and the livelihood of thousands, a couple of hundred families are beginning to see progress.
- by Lia Timson
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World Politics
Judge who brought down Lula to be Brazil's justice minister
Sergio Moro's appointment by incoming president Jair Bolsonaro will fuel suspicions that the jailing of the former leftist president was politically driven.
- by Peter Prengaman
World Politics
President-elect says Brazil to move embassy to Jerusalem
If the pledge becomes reality, Brazil will become the third country to have an embassy in Jerusalem, after the US and Guatemala.
Election
'A game of roulette': Brazilian voters try their luck on law and order
Bolsonaro has risen from an ordinary seven-term career in Congress to lead a country sickened by never-ending crime and economic crisis.
- by Lia Timson
Crime
Cecilia Haddad's mother reveals their terrifying last phone call
Milu Muller told a Brazilian court she heard her murdered daughter's former boyfriend, Mario Marcelo Ferreira dos Santos Santoro, banging on the apartment door. She never heard from Cecilia again.
- by Matt Sandy
Opinion
Brazil
The rise of the extreme right in Brazil
Brazil's new President legitimises everything from racism, misogyny, to homophobia, to outright violence against society.
- by Tracy Fenwick
Brazil
Brazil's new President has said many offensive things
"Since I was a bachelor at the time, I used the money to have sex with people," Jair Bolsonaro once said.
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Election
Right-wing Jair Bolsonaro wins Brazil's presidential race
Former Army captain Jair Bolsonaro won Brazil' presidential election on Sunday, riding a wave of frustration over corruption and crime.
- by Jake Spring and Anthony Boadle
Election
'Trump of the tropics': Brazil's far-right candidate and elections explained
Brazil’s most important election in 30 years is just hours away, but voters here are nowhere near arriving at a consensus on who should lead them.
- by Lia Timson
Julian Assange
Ecuador will no longer fight Assange's corner in Britain
Ecuador does not plan to intervene with the British government on behalf of Julian Assange in talks over his situation as an asylee.
- by Alexandra Valencia
Influence campaigns
Facebook shuts fake, spamming accounts ahead of Brazilian election
The newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo said the group was the main network of support for far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro on the internet.
- by Eduardo Simoes