French President Emanuel Macron “vehemently denounced Jair Bolsonaro after the Brazilian president apparently mocked the appearance of France’s first lady on Facebook,” The Hill reports.

“Macron delivered the remarks just days after a supporter of Bolsonaro posted a meme on the president’s Facebook page comparing the appearance of Macron’s wife, Brigitte Macron, unfavorably to that of Bolsonaro’s wife, Michelle Bolsonaro, and suggesting Macron was jealous.”

New York Times: “President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil has vowed to pursue drug traffickers relentlessly. So he was hard-pressed to explain how a presidential plane ended up carrying 86 pounds of cocaine across the Atlantic during an official trip.”

“The former president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was found guilty of corruption and money laundering on Wednesday and sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison, a stunning setback for a politician who has wielded enormous influence across Latin America for decades,” the New York Times reports.

Bloomberg: “The Brazilian judge who ordered the imprisonment of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva set off a seismic event in a culture accustomed to impunity for its rich and powerful, and battered the resurgent left.”

Los Angeles Times: “After overseeing nearly a decade of economic growth and enormous social gains for the poor, the ruling Workers’ Party now appears helpless as Brazil plunges into the sort of economic collapse and institutional crisis that was common here in the last century.”

“Over the last week, a dizzying array of judicial actions, government reorganizations and media revelations have left it unclear who is governing the world’s fifth most populous nation.”