February 20 – A bus carrying students of the University of Franca collides with a truck near Nuporanga, São Paulo, killing 12 people and injuring 21 others.[10]
February 21 – Supreme Federal Court justice Alexandre de Moraes orders the suspension of Rumble for refusing to remove the account of an ally of former president Jair Bolsonaro accused of spreading disinformation and failing to name a legal representative in Brazil.[11]
March 15 – Aleson Cristiano de Oliveira Fonseca and Fabio Pirineus da Silva are sentenced to up to 23 years' imprisonment over the murder of Moïse Mugenyi Kabagambe in 2022.[16]
March 24 – The federal government issues an apology over the discovery in 1990 of a mass grave in the Cemitério de Perus in which people killed during the Brazilian military dictatorship were secretly buried.[19]
Juscelino Filho resigns as communications minister after charges of corruption are filed against him over the misuse of public funds in a road paving project when he was a federal deputy for Maranhão.[24]
April 28 – Supreme Federal Court justice Flávio Dino orders the federal government to seize property from private individuals found to be responsible for illegal deforestation and wildfires, and orders an end to the legalization of ownership of illegally-acquired land.[26]
May 4 – Police announce the arrest of two people on suspicion of plotting a bomb attack on a concert by Lady Gaga at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro the previous day.[28]
June 3 – President Lula signs a law increasing the quota for government jobs reserved for Afro-Brazilians from 20% to 30% and adding Indigenous people and descendants of enslaved people as beneficiaries.[33]
25 June – Congress nullifies a decree by President Lula to raise a financial transactions tax, the first time the legislature has struck down a presidential decree since 1992.[37]
26 June – The federal government formally admits responsibility for the death of journalist and dissident Vladimir Herzog in custody during the military dictatorship in 1975.[38]
July
July 3 – A cyberattack is made on the software company C&M, which affects the instant payment system Pix and results in the theft of more than 540 million reais ($100 million).[39]
The United States imposes a 50% tariff on Brazilian exports and sanctions Supreme Federal Court justice Alexandre de Moraes on charges of suppressing freedom of expression and authorizing "arbitrary pre-trial detentions".[45]
President Lula partially vetoes a bill that would have reduced federal authority in issuing project licenses and fast-tracked projects in the Amazon Basin.[47]
12 August – Nine people are killed in an explosion at an explosives factory in Curitiba.[50]
18 August– The Supreme Federal Court rules that foreign court decisions are only enforceable in Brazil "upon approval or in compliance with international judicial cooperation mechanisms" amid sanctions imposed by the United States.[51]
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