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Lula’s Government Faces Fiscal Showdown Over $13.5B Legislation: This week, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva engages in high-stakes discussions with Arthur ...
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Lula’s Government Faces Fiscal Showdown Over $13.5B Legislation
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Brazil’s Supreme Court Steps In Amid Social Media Law Controversy: In a critical juncture for Brazilian politics and digital regulation, the Supreme Court has ...
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Brazil’s Supreme Court Steps In Amid Social Media Law Controversy
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Musk and Moraes Clash Highlights Brazilian Political Divide: The recent clash between Elon Musk and STF Justice Alexandre de Moraes highlights Brazil's deep ...
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Musk and Moraes Clash Highlights Brazilian Political Divide
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Brazil: President Lula succeeds in historic tax reform: In a few countries worldwide, the income and wealth disparities as great as in Brazil ...
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Quick Glance: Historic Tax Reform in Brazil
  • Political opponents united: President Lula and Arthur Lira are working together on the reform.

  • Brazil has extreme income and wealth disparities.

  • The reform is a significant step forward for the economy and the state.

  • Even political opponents are supporting the reform.
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Brazil’s Chamber president warns of ‘great risk’ of income tax reform: Arthur Lira, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, has recently expressed concern ...
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Brazil’s Chamber president warns of ‘great risk’ of income tax reform
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Brazil's economy: figures surprisingly positive: In Brazil, the economic outlook has brightened surprisingly. Nevertheless, investors and entrepreneurs are ...
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Brazil's economy: figures surprisingly positive
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Lula Slams Brazil’s Central Bank as House Speaker Urges Truce: Brazil’s lower house Speaker Arthur Lira called for peace between the government and the central ...
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Lula Slams Brazil’s Central Bank as House Speaker Urges Truce
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Brazil: Lira loses power in the Chamber after a series of political defeats for not keeping promises - The Rio Times
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Opinion: Lula enters the fray between Lira and Pacheco - The Rio Times: By Anderson Gonçalves* (Opinion) The House and Senate dispute the rite for processing ...
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For Lula, everyday government life begins. Observations from Brasilia: In the Brazilian capital there is a spirit of optimism after the leaden time under ...
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Brazil: what is expected from the new presidents of the Legislative? - The Rio Times
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President of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies re-elected with record support - The Rio Times
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Lewis Hamilton smiles as Brazilian politician calls him ‘eight-time’ F1 champion: A Brazilian politician couldn’t resist wading into the controversy of last ...
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Brazil's "Centrão" articulates block with 300 deputies to reelect Lira as House president - The Rio Times
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Quick Glance: Trump, Johnson, and now Bolsonaro are all gone.
  • What is astonishing in Brazil is how quickly public discourse was turned upside down in the world's fifth-largest democracy.

  • He later deleted the tweet without apologizing or explaining himself, implying that his adherence to truth and "absolutist free speech" may not be that absolute.

  • Lula's victory last Saturday was far from certain; he won by less than 2%.

  • There's also the reality that when Brazil was on its knees, a very bizarre alliance of anyone-but-Bolsonaro bedfellows banded together under Lula.
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Speaker of the House confirms merger between the PP and União Brasil center-right parties - The Rio Times
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Bolsonaro, Mourão and Lira are abroad and Congress president commands Brazil - The Rio Times
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Bolsonaro, Mourão and Lira are abroad and Congress president commands ...