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Anti-Donald Trump protesters were left bloodied and bruised after clashing with the Republican candidate 's supporters and riot police in Brazil. The campaign descended into violence when a group calling themselves "anti-fascists" brawled with around 50 pro-Trump supporters after the two sides starting screaming at each other. Riot police were called to the demonstration at Paulista avenue in Sao Paulo as a fight broke out. A number of pro-Trump supporters donned masks and carried posters showing Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton behind bars.

Supporters of the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff took a commanding lead in a ballot in the lower house of Congress on Sunday that could hasten the end of 13 years of leftist Workers Party rule in Latin America's biggest economy. With 272 votes cast, 210 members of Congress had voted in favor of Rousseff's impeachment and 62 voted against or abstained. The Datafolha polling group projected Rousseff's defeat. Rousseff's opponents needs votes from 342 of the 513 members of the chamber to send her for trial in the Senate on charges of manipulating budgetary accounts to support her...

Rest of title: ...which reveals President gave senior government position to her predecessor so he could avoid arrest over corruption President Rousseff appointed Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as her chief of staff She is battling impeachment attempt, recession and oil corruption scandal Judge heading oil probe orders phone call between pair to be made public Call seems to confirm Lula's job spared him possible arrest for corruption Protests have erupted in Brazil's capital after a recorded phone call between President Dilma Rousseff and her once-popular predecessor was released, suggesting that she appointed him to her cabinet to spare him...

BRASILIA— Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff raced on Wednesday to defuse a rebellion by legislators upset about her budget austerity plans and her handling of a corruption scandal at state-run oil company Petrobras. Rousseff met with legislative leaders from her coalition after they unexpectedly threw out a presidential decree that would have raised payroll taxes and helped close a gaping hole in Brazil's budget. “This is very serious for Rousseff,” said political analyst Gabriel Petrus of Brasilia-based consultancy Barral M Jorge Associates. “It looks as if there is no political stability on top of the economic crisis.” The economic impact of...

Americas: Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is dying of cancer in Havana, in a live demonstration of Cuba's vaunted socialized medical care. He went there instead of Brazil because he wanted to make a political statement. What irony. As party cronies hover at his bedside, Cuban officials bark orders to the government in Caracas, and red-shirted Chavistas hold vigils, all signs are pointing to an imminent exit for the Venezuelan leader who controls a huge part of the world's oil. He's going out exactly as he wouldn't have liked — helpless and at the mercy of doctors, a far cry from the...

Homeschooling: the only educational hope in a Marxist Brazil By Julio Severo Marxist Dilma Rousseff, the favorite candidate of socialist Brazilian president Lula, is expect to win the next Brazilian presidential election and keep Brazil, and especially the school system, under rigid state control. Homeschooling is illegal in Brazil. In fact, it is a crime, since socialists were able, in the creation of the new Brazilian constitution in 1988, to introduce a constitutional provision ordering all children to attend a school facility. Hope for change is dim. Lula, who brags that he does not like reading, has made an education...