Brazil

SAO PAULO — Brazil’s Prosecutor General has formally charged federal lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro with coercion, according to a statement released Monday. The charge is connected to the broader investigation involving …

DENPASAR, Indonesia — Indonesian authorities have arrested two foreign nationals for allegedly smuggling cocaine to the resort island of Bali, officials announced Thursday. The suspects—a 25-year-old Brazilian man, identified as …

BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva paid a visit Thursday to former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who is currently under house arrest and …

Brazil’s former president, Fernando Collor, has been arrested and ordered to begin serving a prison sentence following his 2023 conviction for corruption. Collor, who governed Brazil from 1990 to 1992, …

ARARAQUARA, Brazil — Former UFC Strawweight fighter Livinha Souza was arrested on Thursday, January 23, 2025, in Araraquara, Brazil, after being accused of drug trafficking and illegal possession of a …

A 30-year-old woman, Pauline Mbangula, was arrested after an X-ray scan revealed that she had ingested 68 pellets of suspected cocaine, weighing around 850 grams. Mbangula had traveled to Brazil …

Rogério Faria da Silva, 44, also known as ‘Morcegão,’ a prominent leader of Brazil’s infamous criminal organization, the First Commando da Capital (PCC), was arrested at the Giusfredo Santini Passenger …

SALT LAKE CITY — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers successfully removed 47-year-old fugitive Valdeci Passos-Soares to Brazil on May 31. Passos-Soares, a Brazilian …

Queensland Woman Veronica Watson Arrested as Drug Runner in Brazil Veronica Watson, a 59-year-old grandmother from Queensland, is set to spend Christmas behind bars in a Brazilian jail after being …