Brazil Update: Lula Wins a Fourth Term as Flávio Bolsonaro Contests the Result
Lula won Brazil’s October 25 runoff with 51.79% but faces a more conservative Congress, while Flávio Bolsonaro refuses to concede and seeks annulment.
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Brazil Election 2026: Candidates, Polls and Congress
Published: September 28, 2026 Brazil votes on October 4 in a general election that will choose a president, governors, members of Congress and state legislatures. If no presidential candidate receives more than half of the valid votes, the top two advance to a second round on October 25. More than 158 million people are eligible … Read more
Gun Control in Latin America: Strict Laws, Armed Streets, and a Supply Problem Slug: Section: Issues
Last Updated: July 2026 Overview Latin America has the world’s highest firearm homicide rates and some of its strictest gun laws, and those two facts sit together because the guns doing the killing are mostly illegal. Firearms are involved in roughly 70 percent of homicides in Latin America and the Caribbean, against a global average … Read more
Corruption in Latin America: What Lava Jato Proved and What It Cost
Last Updated: July 2026 Overview Latin America produced the largest corruption investigation in the democratic world and then spent a decade arguing about whether it was legitimate. Operation Lava Jato in Brazil convicted hundreds of people including executives and politicians across party lines, and its findings triggered prosecutions in a dozen countries through the Odebrecht … Read more
Brazil-Argentina Update: Milei in Sao Paulo and a Recalled Ambassador Section: News
Published: July 28, 2026 India’s education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, resigned on 25 July and took responsibility for the leak of the national medical entrance exam, ending two months of youth-led protests that had occupied central Delhi and turned violent the week before. Within hours the movement that forced him out, the satirical Cockroach Janta Party, … Read more
Brazil Update: A Visit Ban Tightens Around Bolsonaro Before the Vote
Published: July 19, 2026 Brazil’s Supreme Court has drawn a tighter ring around Jair Bolsonaro. On July 17, Justice Alexandre de Moraes barred all in-person visits to the former president for 30 days, after court monitors recorded a heavy flow of political and religious visitors to the home where he is serving house arrest. The … Read more
Brazil Politics in 2026: Lula’s Reelection Bid Amid a Fractured Right
Published: July 18, 2026 Overview Brazil is eleven weeks from a presidential election that will decide whether Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wins a fourth term, and a second one in a row, or whether a badly divided right can unite behind a single challenger before October 4. President Lula, of the Workers’ Party (PT), … Read more