Brazil plans to use a social fund that receives oil and gas exploration royalties to help boost the economy as opinion polls show President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s popularity slumping to all-time lows.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will tap his Institutional Relations Minister Alexandre Padilha to be the next health minister by early next week, replacing Nisia Trindade, CNN Brasil reported on Friday.

Opinion polls that showed President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s popularity slumping to all-time lows are complicating central bank efforts to engineer the economic slowdown needed to tame Brazil’s persistent inflation.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva dismissed Nisia Trindade as health minister, tapping Alexandre Padilha for the job, a statement from the presidential palace said on Tuesday. Padilha, who is currently Lula's institutional relations minister,

Despite presiding over a major cut-down of Amazon deforestation, Brazil's left-wing president has raised environmentalists' concerns by greenlighting expanded oil exploration in the crucial rainforest

Brazil’s finance chief said he has received the mission to balance public accounts directly from President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, whom many investors see as unwilling to make the painful spending cuts that goal demands.

Pesquisas de opinião que mostram a queda de popularidade do presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva complicam os esforços do Banco Central para atingir a desaceleração econômica necessária para conter a inflação persistente do Brasil.

SAO PAULO, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Support for Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has dipped sharply and now trail his disapproval rating, a CNT/MDA poll showed on Tuesday, the latest in a ...

The complaint puts Bolsonaro in the position of being politically persecuted and has the potential to inflame the former president’s supporters, with possible electoral consequences.

Nísia Trindade will be succeeded by Alexandre Rocha Santos Padilha, the current Minister of Institutional Relations and former Health Minister from 2011 to 2014.

The spiralling cost of a morning brew is stirring discontent in Brazil as rising grocery bills in the world’s largest coffee-growing nation eat into the popularity of leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has chosen the head of his Workers Party, Gleisi Hoffmann, to serve as institutional relations minister, the government said in a statement on Friday. Hoffmann,