“Huge crowds packed the squares and beaches of some of Brazil’s biggest cities to voice their opposition to rightwing endeavors to help Bolsonaro escape jail for his failed power grab”

Even on dry land, clambering into a transatlantic narco-sub is NOT a fun experience www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Today’s podcast on the downfall of Jair (with the brilliant @helenpidd.bsky.social) www.theguardian.com/world/audio/...

Exclusive: Sadiq Khan has accused Donald Trump of doing more than anyone else to encourage the intolerant far right across the globe as the US president arrives in the UK. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"ANALYSIS-Brazil's Bolsonaro is going to prison. Here is how he can get out..." explains @reuters.com Dig a tunnel? Climb a wall??

No Guardian: "Ministro brasileiro fala da revogação do visto de sua filha de 10 anos pelos EUA. O pai de Alexandre Padilha fugiu da ditadura para os EUA e agora, a família do ministro da Saúde é alvo das táticas de intimidação de Trump" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

“When Alexandre Padilha’s father most needed help during the dictatorship, the US took him in. So more than 5 decades later, it came as a nasty surprise when Padilha’s 10-year-old daughter became the youngest victim of Donald Trump’s pressure campaign against Brazilian authorities.”

Brazil must read of the weekend, by @ceclynch.bsky.social

EXC - Keir Starmer condemns far right racism and violence at yesterday's march Says there will be "no surrender" of British flag to those who promote hate Our story here - www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Rest in Peace, Hermeto Pascoal, you genius. It was an absolute pleasure to meet you and your cuddly toys in Curitiba back in the day www.theguardian.com/music/2011/n...

“For nearly 50 years, his fate has remained a mystery, sparking desperate searches, raising suspicions of government complicity, and inspiring international documentaries. Now the mystery has been solved,” writes @harrietbarber.bsky.social

"This [plan] wasn’t printed out in a cave. It wasn’t printed out hidden away in a room of terrorists. It was printed out in the presidential palace." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

"How dangerous is Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's new president?" we asked in the first ever episode of the @guardian podcast Today in Focus back in 2018. Now we know. www.theguardian.com/world/audio/...

Guilty www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

"Brazil nearly went back to being a dictatorship … because a criminal organization made up of a political group led by Jair Bolsonaro doesn’t understand that the alternation of power is a principle of republican democracy​" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

“Johnson later suggested he had been acting as a diplomatic backchannel, but weeks after attending the 45-minute meeting, the Guardian can reveal, Johnson received £240,000 from Petermann.”

Still haven't worked out a good translation for 'núcleo crucial'... ☹️

“He means everything to me. He’s someone who sticks up for Brazil … He’s a good person and a good judge,” said Nascimento, a 37-year-old butcher from the Amazon city of Belém, explaining why he spent six hours and 3,000 reais (£410, $550) to get Alexandre de Moraes’s face tattooed on his shin.’

“He’s the only one who can save us … Trump is our only salvation"

Missing in the Amazon: the frontline – episode six

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"It’ll become the cause celebre for every kind of criminal or illegal armed group in the Americas … You’ll end up having people going to Venezuela to fight the Yankees and I think it’ll get messy" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

“By the time climate negotiators arrived, the adult channels on its televisions would have been deactivated; the sex shop selling nurses’ costumes removed; and the laminated catalogues offering furry handcuffs and “Real Peter” dildos replaced by English-language menus offering food”

Estadão editorial new Portuguese word of the day: "grei" (flock) www.estadao.com.br/opiniao/a-de...

"This truly is unprecedented and historic ... Our democracy is going through an acid test and it’s possible it will come out of this strengthened" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

"It’s over," says Brazil's guerrilla trumpeter @trompetista.bsky.social, as Jair Bolsonaro's day of judgement arrives www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

“No one in their right mind thinks that with 4,500 people you can invade a country that’s got mountains, jungle and multiple urban centres” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

"The two countries🇧🇷 +🇺🇸 seem to be swapping places. America is becoming more corrupt, protectionist and authoritarian ... By contrast, [Brazil is] determined to safeguard and strengthen its democracy," says the Economist www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

“This excellent investigation into Dom and Bruno’s murders is a true crime podcast in only the literal sense. Avoiding the often-exploitative pitfalls of the genre, it's far more about who they were in life than how they died.” www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

I finally took the time to listen carefully and attentively to the Dom and Bruno podcast and it's amazing! It goes hand in hand with "How to Save the Amazon", Dom Phillips book project that was finished by his friends. A must listen / read!

'The police report also exposed the foul-mouthed infighting playing out between members of the Bolsonaro clan & key supporters. In a WhatsApp exchange found on Jair Bolsonaro’s phone Eduardo Bolsonaro tells his father: “Go and fuck yourself you fucking ingrate!” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

hoje à noite em Brasília, logo mais à noite, para lembrar e celebrar o legado de Dom Phillips e Bruno Pereira >

"I’ve said to Trump: If what happened in the Capitol had happened in Brazil, he would be put on trial here in Brazil too" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Brasília, Mexico City, Lima. “Do you want to live in places like that?” Trump asked reporters today. Well, yes, actually. 🤷🏽‍♂️

“I’m convinced God has chosen Trump as a liberator,” Edite Costa proclaimed as she stood in her garden clutching the American flag she waves at pro-Bolsonaro rallies.

Bolsonaro supporters pray for Trump rescue as coup plot trial verdict nears

“Barricades first appeared on the roads leading into Rio’s favelas in the 1980s, supersized speed bumps designed to smash the suspension of any vehicle that tried to cross them at speed. Sometimes, traffickers placed nail-filled potatoes on the humps to puncture police tyres”

“Only through a nearly-400mm camera lens is it possible to make out a small group of people standing among the ruins of a shattered landscape – the only sign of life in a place that appears otherwise uninhabitable.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

The Rio tabloid Meia Hora says Bolsonaro is going to experience social distancing, five years too late! 👀

"After Bolsonaro’s house arrest, the state department hinted that other members of Brazil’s 11-seat supreme court could soon face Magnitsky sanctions"

There’s a man driving around the outside of Bolsonaro’s house with his windows down and his music on loud. “TÁ NA HORA DO JAIR TÁ NA HORA DO JAIR JAIR EM CANA JAIR EM CANA”

“Metal barricades have been erected around the supreme court, foreign ministry and congress in anticipation of possible rightwing protests or violence.”

‘Moraes claimed the Brazilians behind the alleged plot were trying to trigger “an economic crisis, that would create a social and then a political crisis so that, once again, there might be social instability and the chance of a new putschist attack”.

“Democracy in El Salvador has died"

"Mr Bolsonaro’s allies make the 8 January riot sound like a tea-party. Any cursory search of the riot shows that it was a vandalistic orgy," says the @economist.com www.economist.com/the-americas...

"Over the past six months, Donald Trump has been accused of rapidly dragging the largest democracy in the Americas towards authoritarianism. Now, the US president seems bent on undermining the region’s second largest democracy too." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tacou?

“not just an affront to a supreme court minister … [but also] a direct attack on Brazilian democracy and sovereignty”

"If [Trump] got to know me, he’d know that I’m 20 times better than [Bolsonaro]," @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social tells @jacknicas.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/w...

4 months ago I went to visit Arturo Suárez's wife & baby daughter in Chile, as he languished behind bars in El Salvador. Fortunately he's now free. But how terribly cruel that I've met his kid but he hasn't, all because he was swallowed up by a political game www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...