Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s election victory over incumbent Jair Bolsonaro last month sends a powerful message to the rest of the world. Though he won only narrowly, Lula, as he is known, succeeded by building a broad democratic coalition spanning from the far left to the center right. Facing a deeply divided country, the president-elect is now
It’s a long way from Kyiv to Itaituba, but Brazil’s busy wildcat gold prospectors don’t need a map. The war on Ukraine has sent international gold prices soaring and word in the Amazon basin is spreading faster than claim-staker’s quicksilver. This city in the eastern Amazonian state of Pará is a longtime hub for miners, […]