Women don't like Brazil's Bolsonaro. Cue the first lady
President Jair Bolsonaro has a problem heading into Brazil's October elections: he is unpopular with a demographic that makes up more than half the electorate -- women.
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President Jair Bolsonaro has a problem heading into Brazil's October elections: he is unpopular with a demographic that makes up more than half the electorate -- women.
Since Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019, the fate of the Amazon and its indigenous peoples has been hanging by a thread. With the executive, legislative and judicial branches having now decimated the environmental agenda, Brazil’s pathways toward a greener future seem bleak. Last year, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon reached its highest level since 2006, while illegal mining in the legally protected Yanomami indigenous lands increased by 46 percent. Such gold mining led not only to malaria and mercury exposure, but also to unprecedented violence against indigenous...
Crisis mounts as president pardons supporter and taunts judiciary ahead of poll
Evangelicalism within Brazil's national football team has been on the rise, mirroring a wider trend across the country.
The campaign for Brazil's October presidential elections has not yet officially started, but the candidates are already bending over backwards to woo a powerful constituency: Evangelical Christians.