Brazil's Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on July 13 barred Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, a presidential candidate, from visiting his father, former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is under house arrest, for 90 days, effectively blocking all contact until after the first round of Brazil's October 2026 elections; the trigger was Flávio reading Jair's handwritten letter on YouTube, violating Jair's social media ban
Brazil's 38th president, a former army captain who served seven terms in Congress, sentenced in September 2025 to 27 years for leading a post-election coup conspiracy.
full dossier ›Brazil's three-term president and declared 2026 fourth-term candidate who shaped Latin American labor politics and social policy over five decades.
Tracks three heads of government who have left power, covering the legal proceedings, political successors, and policy reversals that make their departures still consequential.
Four years two months and ineligibility to 2038 for coercion, tried in absentia for seeking US sanctions on the court trying his father
At 80, Lula runs for an unprecedented fourth term with the right's standard-bearer dogged by scandal and his father jailed
Jailed and barred, Jair Bolsonaro hands the flag to Senator Flávio; an 80-year-old Lula seeks a fourth term with the race tied
The right's 2026 candidate confirms a recording asking ex-banker Daniel Vorcaro to release money for a biopic of his father, widening Lula's lead