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A large number of Latuff's cartoons are related to the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]], an issue which assumed significance for the cartoonist after a visit to the region in the late 1990s. His cartoons are highly critical of [[Israel]].<ref name="Fwd20081218">{{cite news|last=Portnoy|first=Eddy|url=http://www.forward.com/articles/14746/|title=Simple, Offensive and Out There |work=The Forward|date=18 December 2008|access-date=26 January 2021}}</ref>
Latuff has created a series of cartoons criticizing United States president [[George W. Bush]], Brazilian president [[Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva]], and British prime minister [[Tony Blair]], among other politicians.<ref>{{cite web |author=— Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin |url=http://www.infoshop.org/graphics/latuff/main.php?g2_itemId=1051 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411021009/http://www.infoshop.org/graphics/latuff/main.php?g2_itemId=1051 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2021-04-11 |title=The Cartoons of Carlos Latuff |publisher=Infoshop.org |date=1995-01-23 |access-date=2014-08-10 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.fractaldesignz.orcon.net.nz/images/latuff/Bush_is_celebrating_911_by_Latuff2.jpg] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070619194913/http://www.fractaldesignz.orcon.net.nz/images/latuff/Bush_is_celebrating_911_by_Latuff2.jpg|date=June 19, 2007}}</ref><ref>[http://pal.or.kr/bbs/data/al_free/The_George_Bush_Barbershop_by_Latuff2.jpg] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070619194913/http://pal.or.kr/bbs/data/al_free/The_George_Bush_Barbershop_by_Latuff2.jpg|date=June 19, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://brasil.indymedia.org/images/2004/05/279977.gif |title=Archived copy |access-date=26 January 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070619194913/http://brasil.indymedia.org/images/2004/05/279977.gif |archive-date=19 June 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://brasil.indymedia.org/images/2003/08/260245.gif |title=Archived copy |access-date=26 January 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726180912/http://brasil.indymedia.org/images/2003/08/260245.gif |archive-date=26 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://brasil.indymedia.org/images/2004/09/289838.gif |title=Archived copy |access-date=26 January 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726180931/http://brasil.indymedia.org/images/2004/09/289838.gif |archive-date=26 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{primary inline|date=February 2024}}
Latuff is critical of U.S. military action [[American invasion of Iraq|in Iraq]] and Afghanistan. He began to publish his work on the web from the earliest stages of the invasion. Latuff says, "war is not a video game, and technofetishism is not to be celebrated, but exposed."<ref>{{Cite journal |journal=International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies |last=Najjar |first=Orayb |year=2014 |title=The American media and the Iraq war at its tenth anniversary: Lessons for the coverage of future wars|volume=8 |pages=15–34 |doi=10.1386/ijcis.8.1.15_1 }}</ref>
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In his comic series ''Tales of Iraq War'' ({{lang-ar|حكايات من حرب العراق}}) he portrays "[[Juba (sniper)|Juba, the Baghdad sniper]]",<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tales-of-iraq-war.blogspot.com/2007/02/juba-baghdad-sniper-4.html|title=TALES OF IRAQ WAR by LATUFF|author=Carlos Latuff|work=tales-of-iraq-war.blogspot.com|date=17 February 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://tales-of-iraq-war.blogspot.com/2007/02/juba-baghdad-sniper-2.html|title=TALES OF IRAQ WAR by LATUFF|author=Carlos Latuff|work=tales-of-iraq-war.blogspot.com|date=7 February 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://tales-of-iraq-war.blogspot.com/2007/02/juba-baghdad-sniper-arabic_07.html|title=TALES OF IRAQ WAR by LATUFF|author=Carlos Latuff|work=tales-of-iraq-war.blogspot.com|date=7 February 2007 }}</ref> an [[Iraqi insurgency (Iraq War)|Iraqi insurgency]] character claimed to have shot down several dozen US soldiers, as a "superhero".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://latuff2.deviantart.com/art/Latuff-in-NOX-Magazine-125566238 |title=Interview with Carlos Latuff |date=11 June 2009 |publisher=Latuff2.deviantart.com |access-date=25 January 2013}}</ref> He has also made a caricature of US President George W. Bush laughing over US casualties.<ref>http://www.infoshop.org/graphics/Latuff3/Anti-America/Laughs.gif.html{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>{{primary inline|date=February 2024}}
Since the end of 2010, he has been engaged in producing cartoons about the [[Arab Spring]] in which he sided with the revolutionaries. After the victory of revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya his cartoons about these countries have focused on the menace of [[counter-revolution]] or [[imperialism|Western interference]]. Some of his cartoons have been displayed in mass demonstrations in Arab countries.<ref name=reutersArab>{{cite news |last=Grudgings |first=Stuart |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-cartoonist-mideast-idUSTRE77S3IW20110829 |title=Rio cartoonist inspires Arab rebellions from afar |publisher=Reuters.com |date=29 August 2011 |access-date=25 January 2013 |archive-date=2 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202221434/http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/29/us-brazil-cartoonist-mideast-idUSTRE77S3IW20110829 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://twicsy.com/i/QsLSL |title=Latuff's cartoon displayed in Tahrir Square |publisher=Twicsy.com |date=1 August 2011|access-date=25 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402104931/http://twicsy.com/i/QsLSL |archive-date=2 April 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arabawy.org/2011/07/16/no-military-tribunals-2/ |title=Stop military tribunals |publisher=Arabawy.org |access-date=25 January 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405135027/http://www.arabawy.org/2011/07/16/no-military-tribunals-2/ |archive-date=5 April 2012}}</ref>
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