The President aims to strengthen relations with Argentina and attend a Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) Summit.
Authorities arrest ex- justice minister Anderson Torres after returning to Brazil from Florida — the same US state his ex-boss Jair Bolsonaro had travelled to after losing last year's election.
Ex-president Jair Bolsonaro is accused of encouraging anti-democratic protests that ended in the storming of government buildings by his supporters in Brasilia on January 8.
More than $5 million at today's exchange rate was charged to the former Brazilian president's card during his four-year term.
Guajajara, an influential native rights activist, makes history by becoming the South American country's first ever minister of Indigenous peoples.
Brazil's 11-day-old government prepares for more protests by far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro's supporters, whose Sunday rampage through public buildings marked worst attack on the country's institutions in decades.
Police had arrested more than 1,500 people after supporters of far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the seats of power in Brasilia.
Backers of the ex-president Jair Bolsonaro occupy parts of the parliament building in the capital, Brasilia, and also entered the Planalto presidential palace and Brazil's Supreme Court.
The swearing-in capped a remarkable political comeback for 77-year-old Lula, who returns to the presidential palace less than five years after being jailed on controversial, since-quashed corruption charges.
Undoing the controversial policies of Bolsonaro will pose the biggest challenge to the new government, warn experts.
Shamans and healers, donning traditional Andean attire in capital Lima, welcome coming year in a purification ceremony incorporating flowers, incense, a snake, and photos of Ukrainian and Russian presidents.
Outgoing President Bolsonaro's right-wing coalition files complaint with electoral authorities, alleging it found "signs of irreparable ... malfunction" in some electronic voting machines.
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