BRASÍLIA — For weeks, Jair Bolsonaro’s closest advisers had proposed alternatives. The former president of Brazil, serving 27 years in prison for attempting a coup after his 2022 election loss, was looking for a successor to lead the populist movement he created into this year’s presidential contest. Source link
BARCELONA, April 18 (Reuters) – The five permanent members of the United Nations’ Security Council should agree to change their behaviour after failing to stop the war in Iran, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told a progressive leaders’ summit in Barcelona on Saturday. “We cannot wake up every morning and go to bed every night with a tweet from a president threatening the world and declaring wars,” Lula added in apparent reference to U.S. President Donald Trump without explicitly naming him. (Reporting by David Latona; Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters. Photos You Should See – April 2026 Source link
Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has said he has “forbidden” one of Donald Trump’s advisers from visiting the South American country in retaliation for his health minister being denied a US visa. Darren Beattie, a far-right political strategist who was recently tapped for a senior advisory role on Brazil, had reportedly hoped to use a trip to the country to visit the former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup to stop Lula taking power after the 2022 election. Beattie is a longstanding critic of Brazil’s judiciary and president and once called the moderate leftwing leader a representative of “the most destructive and corrosive version” of communism. On Friday, after a supreme court judge refused Beattie permission to visit the incarcerated politician, Lula announced he had given orders for the Trump aide’s visa to be revoked. “That American guy who said he was coming here to visit Bolsonaro, he’s been barred from visiting and I have forbidden him from coming to Brazil so long as they don’t …
Brazil’s President Lula says fate of Venezuelan president should be determined by the ‘people of Venezuela’ and ‘not by foreign interference’. Listen to this article | 2 mins info Published On 21 Feb 202621 Feb 2026 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro should face trial, but that it should take place in a Venezuelan court, rather than in the United States, where he is currently being held after his abduction by the US military. “I believe that if Maduro has to be trialled, he has to be trialled in his country, not trialled abroad,” Lula said in an interview, emphasising that “what matters now is to re-establish democracy in Venezuela”. “It has to be solved by the people of Venezuela, and not by foreign interference,” said Lula, citing a history of US-backed dictatorships in Latin America, including Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. “We cannot accept that a head of state of one country could invade another country and capture the president,” …
JAKARTA: Indonesian influencer Lula Lahfah has died at age 26, according to local media reports. CNN Indonesia on Friday (Jan 23) night reported that the popular influencer had died in her apartment, citing local police. No cause of death was given. Budi Hermanto, head of public relations from the Metro Jaya police, said that a celebrity with the initials LL was found dead on Friday evening in the Essence Dharmawangsa Apartment in South Jakarta. The celebrity was found by security officers at about 6.44pm on Jan 23, Budi said, as quoted by CNN Indonesia. The spokesman explained that the police are currently investigating the incident and further information would be provided in due time. CNN Indonesia reported that Lula was previously hospitalised for health issues. News of her death was hinted at by Indonesian musician Hassan Alaydrus, one of Lula’s close friends. He had posted a cryptic story on his Instagram, with nothing but a black background, on Friday evening. A number of Lula’s friends, including Indonesian actress and singer Caitlin Halderman, had also left …
