Brazil polls: Commentators cautiously welcome Lula win; say hard work on Amazon begins now

Workers’s Party’s Lula may be president but Brazilian Congress still dominated by right-wing Bolsonaro supporters

Lula’s comeback is a second chance for Brazil’s poorest

If he wants to leave a long-standing legacy to Brazilians in this third (and possibly final) term in office, Lula will have to restore Bolsa Fam&…

Brazil polls: Lula can win but 2023 to be difficult for country, say experts

The erstwhile Lula administration’s successful welfare and cash-transfer policies from 2003-2010, are the former president’s greatest …

Brazil to go in for second round of voting after Lula fails to win outright

Incumbent Jair Bolsonaro is widely expected to win the second round on October 30

President Lula calls Bolsonaro’s COVID-19 actions ‘genocide’, to reinstate Bolsa Familia

Veteran leftist leader aims for zero deforestation in the Amazon; zero greenhouse gas emissions in electricity matrix  

COP27 diary (November 16): ‘$100 billion in climate finance more of gesture from rich countries’

A round-up of what went on at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit

Do welfare schemes catch votes?

Governments in power in the four major states that went to polls were running similar schemes, but not all registered a win