‘Neymar haters’: Brazil political divide spills over to World Cup
Normally, it would be horrible news to football fans anywhere that their team’s star player was injured.
Normally, it would be horrible news to football fans anywhere that their team’s star player was injured.
Former Brazilian congresswoman Flordelis dos Santos was sentenced Sunday to 50 years in prison for the murder of her husband in 2019, a Rio de Janeiro court ruled.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been uncharacteristically quiet since his election loss to veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva last month, all but disappearing from public view and even his beloved social media accounts.
After Lula’s narrow victory Sunday, Bolsonaro supporters blocked highways and camped out at army bases to demand a military intervention to keep the defeated incumbent in power.
Brazil’s outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro asked participants in what he said were “legitimate” protests to “unblock the roads” and demonstrate elsewhere Wednesday as they push for military intervention to keep him in power.
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday “authorized” the transition to a new government, without acknowledging his defeat to leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Twenty-four hours after the close of voting in Sunday’s deeply polarizing runoff election, Bolsonaro had still not recognized the outcome — raising fears he could try to challenge it, with potentially turbulent results for the country.
Former US president Donald Trump on Friday hailed Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro as a “great” leader and called on Brazilians to vote him in for another term.
Hollywood’s biggest superheroes flew into Brazil’s election Friday, as the “Avengers” answered calls for help from supporters of presidential challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Aquaman star Jason Momoa has become the latest Hollywood celebrity to throw his support behind Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brazil’s knife-edge election, joining Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo and “Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill.