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Lula

December 2024

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, and France’s President Emmanuel Macron pose for photos at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia.

Brazil president rushed to hospital for brain surgery

Doctors said 79-year-old president Luiz Ignacio Lula de Silva was in the ICU after an emergency operation related to a fall in October.

  • Gabriel Araujo and Lisandra Paraguassu

July 2023

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president, at a ceremony with indigenous leaders in Brasilia in April.

Brazil to launch multibillion-dollar green transition

Investors welcome the bold environmentalist program proposed by left-wing president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

  • Bryan Harris

January 2023

Supporters of Jair Bolsonaro storm the Supreme Court building in Brasilia on January 8

Can Lula put Brazilian democracy back together again?

From the military to the Supreme Court, many of the country’s institutions are creaking under accusations of divided loyalties.

  • Michael Stott, Bryan Harris and Myles McCormick
Supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro clash with police during a protest outside the presidential palace.

Pro-Bolsonaro protesters storm Brazil’s Congress, Supreme Court

Thousands of demonstrators also invaded the presidential palace in scenes reminiscent of the January 6 attacks on the US Capitol.

  • Diane Jeantet
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil’s president, centre left, walks up the ramp of Planalto Palace with representatives of the Brazilian people after being sworn-in during an inauguration ceremony in Brasilia, Brazil.

Lula becomes Brazil’s president, with Bolsonaro in Florida

Mr Bolsonaro was supposed to pass Lula the presidential sash, an important symbol of the peaceful transition of power in a nation where many people still recall the 21-year military dictatorship that ended in 1985.

  • Anthony Boadle and Gabriel Stargardter

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