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...Additional reporting by Claire Jones in Washington, Joe Daniels in Bogotá and Ciara Nugent in Buenos Aires...
...Lula tightens Brazil’s gun controls and curbs gold mining in Amazon In the wake of his inauguration on Sunday, Brazil’s new president has moved to sweep away the legacy of his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro...
...In total, Lula won 60.3mn votes, just over 2mn more than Bolsonaro....
...What else we’re reading Brazil faces economic headwinds as Lula prepares to take office As Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva prepares to take office on January 1, he faces a darkening economic outlook....
...Lula looks to reduce role of armed forces in politics Brazil’s president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has named a civilian to the post of defence minister....
...The decision is likely to disappoint financial markets and reignite investor fears that the Lula administration, which takes office on January 1, will pursue a looser fiscal policy. 2....
...Brazilian truckers protest against Lula’s victory Truckers blocked highways at more than 300 points across Brazil yesterday to protest at leftist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in Sunday’s presidential...
...Lula’s uphill battle to reverse Brazil’s environmental destruction President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has pledged to halt destruction of the Amazon rainforest. The scale of his task is immense....
...president Jair Bolsonaro broke a two-day silence after his narrow election defeat on Sunday and vowed to follow the country’s constitution and peacefully hand over power to his leftist rival Luiz Inácio Lula...
...How Bolsonaro built a durable right-wing movement With Brazilians heading to the polls on Sunday, incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro is closing the gap on favourite Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva....
...Polls suggest that challenger Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has a narrow lead, but such surveys had underestimated far-right president Jair Bolsonaro’s support in a first-round vote earlier this month....
...Lula, a leftwing ex-president who is leading most opinion polls in the run-up to the October 2 ballot, countered by accusing the far-right incumbent of “destroying the country”....
...How Lula’s government plans to boost racial equality in Brazil When Brazil’s new president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva appointed Anielle Franco, the sister of assassinated city councillor Marielle Franco,...
...“I prefer a coup than the return of [Lula’s Workers’ party]. A million times. And certainly no one will stop doing business with Brazil....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1 per cent and the Nasdaq Composite ended 0.5 per cent higher....
...Major scientific publishers still in control 20 years on — letter from Dr Dennis Jones Back in the late 1990s I worked for ICL, the UK IT company (now Fujitsu), and was involved with a project looking at...
...The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 0.6 per cent, giving back nearly all of Tuesday’s 0.7 per cent gain, although the Dow Jones Industrial Average managed to edge up 0.2 per cent to a record closing high...
...Equities On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit an all-time intraday high of 21,580 and set a record closing peak of 21,531, up 0.6 per cent on the day....
...In 1973, The Staple Singers took it back down South to a territory Grandma Lula would have recognised....
...As one official told the Financial Times, Brazil won the games during one of the best periods of its history back in 2009 when its economy was booming and its leftist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva...
...The FT’s Sam Jones examines what the nature of the attacks tells us. (FT)...
...Jackie Wullschlager WORLD MUSIC Lula Pena This Portuguese singer’s admirers are always trying to convert unbelievers....
...Roberto Rodrigues,Sao Paulo CS: With President Lula da Silva ineligible to run for the first time since 1989, the election later this year certainly adds another element of risk to the market....
...Nick Rawdon-Jones, London MC: Many Brazilian exporters are already feeling the bite from the currency’s appreciation....
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