#Brazil

Parisite, one of the few rare-earth carbonate minerals, grown on galena in a specimen from the Mountain Pass mine in California.

Critical minerals

Lula's re-election puts Washington's hopes of quick access to Brazil's rare earths on hold

President Donald Trump and Brazilian Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in the Oval Office in May 2026, in a photograph Trump posted on Truth Social.

Congressional oversight

Twenty-five House Democrats press Rubio on how Brazil's Flávio Bolsonaro got a US visa after leaving under a court order

Jamieson Greer, the United States Trade Representative, in his official portrait from 2025.

Washington's 37.5% tariffs on Brazil face a new round of talks after Lula's win, with a written US offer expected in November

Eduardo Bolsonaro at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida in 2022. He has lived in the United States since early 2025.

Brazil and Washington

Brazil ordered Eduardo Bolsonaro's arrest. He lives in Texas on a green card, and any extradition would be Washington's call

The headquarters of the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral in Brasília, the court that runs Brazil's elections and publishes the count, photographed in 2012.

Brazil and Washington

Brazil's October 25 runoff will pick the government that negotiates America's 25% tariff and its access to Brazilian rare earths

Jorge Messias at his swearing-in as head of Brazil's Advocacia-Geral da União, at the Planalto Palace in Brasília, in January 2023.

Brazil and the United States

Brazil asks its federal police to investigate a $1 million U.S. State Department grant aimed at critics of its Supreme Court

The sign outside the Harry S Truman Building, the State Department's headquarters in Washington, D.C., in December 2025.

Brazilians are among the 43,000 immigrant visa refusals the United States now has to reopen