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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is running for a second term, rides a horse at the Barretos Rodeo International Festival in Barretos, Sao Paulo state Brazil, Aug. 26, 2022. Bolsonaro is betting on a program crafted to distribute land ownership to thousands of rural farmers as a tool to win over some countryside voters and eventually beat Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the Oct. 2, 2022 election. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro hopes land titles will lure rural votes

By Mauricio Savarese - Associated Press

Brazil's former president, who is running for reelection, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, appears in Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 3, 2022, and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, right, attends a meeting on June 9, 2022, in Los Angeles. (AP Photos) **FILE**

‘Trump of the tropics’ in tough battle for second term in Brazil

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

An iPhone displays the Facebook app in New Orleans, Aug. 11, 2019. Facebook failed to detect election-related misinformation in ads ahead of Brazil's 2022 election, a new report from Global Witness has found, continuing a pattern of not catching material that violates its policies the group says is “alarming.” (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Facebook misses election misinformation in Brazil ads

By Barbara Ortutay

Brazil's former president, who is running for reelection, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, appears in Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 3, 2022, and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, right, attends a meeting on June 9, 2022, in Los Angeles. Brazilians go to the polls in October, and they'll have a choice between reelecting Bolsonaro, or bringing back former president da Silva. (AP Photos)

Problematic or perilous: Brazil’s environmental choice

By Fabiano Maisonnave and Diane Jeantet - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro, center, leads a motorcycle rally in Manaus, Brazil, June 18, 2022. With the election just three months off, some polls show only one in five women will vote for the tough-talking, pro-gun, motorcycle-riding former Army captain. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros, File)

Bolsonaro’s reelection hopes dim unless he wins over women

By Débora Álvares and Mauricio Savarese - Associated Press

Indigenous leader Kamuu Wapichana is backdropped by a banner that show images of missing freelance British journalist Dom Phillips, left, and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, during a protest asking authorities to expand the search efforts for the two men, in front of the Ministry of Justice in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. The search for Pereira and Phillips, who disappeared in a remote area of Brazil’s Amazon continued following the discovery of a backpack, laptop and other personal belongings submerged in a river. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil Indigenous expert was ‘bigger target’ in recent years

By Mauricio Savarese and Fabiano Maisonnave - Associated Press

Federal police officers arrive at the pier with recovered human remains found during a search for Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira of Brazil and freelance reporter Dom Phillips of Britain, in Atalaia do Norte, Amazonas state, Brazil, Wednesday, June 15, 2022. A federal police investigator said a suspect confessed to fatally shooting Pereira and Phillips in a remote part of the Amazon and took officers to where the bodies were buried. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

Police: Amazon fisherman confesses to killing missing pair

By Fabianno Maisonnave, Edmar Barros and Mauricio Savarese - Associated Press

Soldiers search for missing British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous affairs expert Bruno Araujo Pereira from a helicopter over Javari Valley Indigenous territory, Atalaia do Norte, Amazonas state, Brazil, Friday, June 10, 2022. Phillips and Pereira were last seen on Sunday morning in the Javari Valley, Brazil's second-largest Indigenous territory which sits in an isolated area bordering Peru and Colombia. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

Police tortured suspect in Amazon disappearance, family says

By Fabiano Maisonnave - Associated Press

President Joe Biden, right, meets with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro during the Summit of the Americas, Thursday, June 9, 2022, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden holds tense meeting with Brazil’s ‘Trump of the Tropics’ Jair Bolsonaro

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro gives a press conference after meeting with Elon Musk in Porto Feliz, Brazil, Friday, May 20, 2022. Musk, the Telsa and SpaceX chief executive officer, tweeted that he was in Brazil to help bring Internet service to rural schools in the Amazon and to help monitor the Amazon environmentally. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro casts doubt on Biden’s 2020 win ahead of summit meeting

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

British journalist Dom Phillips, right, and a Yanomami Indigenous man walk in Maloca Papiu village, Roraima state, Brazil, Nov. 2019. Phillips and Indigenous affairs expert Bruno Araujo Pereira have been reported missing in a remote part of Brazil's Amazon region, a local Indigenous association said Monday, June 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Joao Laet)

British writer, Brazil Indigenous official missing in Amazon

By Fabiano Maisonnave and David Biller - Associated Press

FILE - Indigenous people painted with red ink representing spilled Indigenous blood and clay representing gold, protest against the increase of mining activities that are encroaching on their land, in front of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, in Brasilia, Brazil, April 11, 2022. Some of the world’s biggest mining companies have withdrawn requests for research and production in Indigenous territories of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and have repudiated Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s efforts to legalize mining activity in the areas. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Mining companies back away from Brazil’s Indigenous areas

By Fabiano Maisonnave - Associated Press

Confetti showers former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and supporters after the announcement of his candidacy for the country’s upcoming presidential election, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Saturday, May 7, 2022. Brazil's general elections are scheduled for Oct. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil’s Lula courts centrists at unofficial campaign launch

By Mauricio Savarese and Débora Álvares - Associated Press

Supporters of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro take part in a caravan of thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts who gathered in a show of support for him in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday, April 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Bolsonaro seeks to rev up his support with motorcycle rally

By Debora Alvares and Tatiana Pollastri - Associated Press

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, center, and his wife Michelle Bolsonaro, sing their nation's anthem during a ceremony next to departing cabinet members at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Cabinet ministers are leaving the administration en masse to help boost the president's reelection chances as they prepare to campaign for congressional seats and governorships. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil officials resign to seek new posts, boost Bolsonaro

By Debora Alvares and Diane Jeanete - Associated Press

In this Thursday, June 13, 2019, file photo, the website of the Telegram messaging app is seen on a computer's screen in Beijing. In early January 2021, encrypted messaging apps Signal and Telegram are seeing huge upticks in downloads from Apple and Google's app stores, while WhatsApp's growth is on the decline following a privacy fiasco where the company was forced to clarify a message it sent to users. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File) **FILE**

Brazilian justice lifts Telegram ban after orders met

By Debora Alvares - Associated Press

Residents and volunteers remove the body of a landslide victim in Petropolis, Brazil, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. Extremely heavy rains set off mudslides and floods in a mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro state, killing multiple people, authorities reported. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Brazil mudslides from torrential rains kill at least 38

By Diarlei Rodrigues - Associated Press

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro raises a "borduna," a traditional Indigenous weapon, outside Planalto presidential palace after receiving it as a gift from Indigenous people from various regions who support agro-business activities on Indigenous lands, in Brasilia, Brazil, Aug. 12, 2021. Bolsonaro has said that Indigenous people should be entitled to self-determination -- not just regarding possible mining, but all activities. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro issues decrees to boost mining of Amazon

By David Biller - Associated Press

A health worker gives a shot of the Johnson &amp; Johnson COVID-19 vaccine inside the Solidary Hands Shelter for the homeless in the poor neighborhood of Ceilandia in Brasilia, Brazil, June 29, 2021. Brazil's government started taking an online public survey on Dec. 24 to inform their decisions about whether and how to vaccinate children against the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Brazil seeks public opinion on child vaccinations

By Debora Alvares, Mauricio Savarese and Marcelo Silva de Sousa - Associated Press

Children learn the basics of golf from caddie Marcelo Modesto on the grounds of the Nusacquilombo cultural center in Cidade de Deus or City of God favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. Modesto from one of Rio's poorest neighborhoods works at one of the seaside city's most exclusive golf courses, earning a comfortable living guiding wealthy patrons around the fairways and greens of the course. Now he is sharing his golf skills with kids from his favela. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo) **FILE**

Golf takes Brazilian kids from mean streets to putting greens

By Diarlei Rodrigues and Mauricio Savarese - Associated Press