The far-right candidate in Brazil’s presidential election, Jair Bolsonaro, is to have more major surgery after he was stabbed during a campaign rally on Thursday. His doctors said the 63-year-old remained in intensive care following the attack by a lone assailant. He suffered a deep and life-threatening wound to his intestines and lost 40% of his blood. He will be… Read more »
Hundreds of Venezuelan migrants have crossed back over the border with Brazil in the last few days after a violent incident in Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima state. Most said they were leaving because they feared for their lives after a young man was lynched, accused of killing a local man during a robbery.
More than 30 years after Brazil’s junta left power, the consensus that the military should stay out of politics has been broken, amid widespread dissatisfaction with the political class after several years of corruption scandals and economic turmoil. The frontrunner in October’s general elections, Jair Bolsonaro – whose lurid far-right proclamations have earned him the moniker “the tropical Trump” –… Read more »