Brazil

A convoy of Brazilian army troops, tanks and other vehicles pauses on the way to Rio de Janeiro, on April 1, 1964, after conspirators in the country's military high command overthrew the government and forced Brazilian President João Goulart to flee. 
History
Brazil remembers the 1964 coup and victims of the dictatorship 
Image from a poster depicting a toucan at the new exhibition, "Imaginary Amazon," at the University of San Diego, featuring works by contemporary artists, many of them Indigenous inhabitants of the Amazon. 
Arts, Culture & Media
‘Imaginary Amazon’ exhibition counters negative stereotypes through contemporary art
Leonardo de Carvalho Leal and Mayara Stelle administer the Twitter account Sleeping Giants Brazil, a platform for activism whose stated mission is to attack the financing of hate speech and dissemination of fake news, Dec. 11, 2020.
Free speech
Will Brazil’s ‘Fake News Bill’ regulate disinformation or stifle free speech?
Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa during welcome ceremonies outside the 16th century Jeronimos monastery in Lisbon, Saturday, April 22, 2023. 
Conflict & Justice
Portugal’s president says country should apologize, ‘assume responsibility’ for slave trade
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a military promotion ceremony, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, April 4, 2023. 
Ukraine
Where does Brazil stand with the war in Ukraine?
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro waves to supporters at the Liberal Party's headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, March 30, 2023. 
Leaders
The future of Bolsonaro in Brazil remains uncertain
Boats carrying mining supplies move along the Uraricoera River in Alto Alegre, Roraima state, Brazil, as some miners leave Yanomami Indigenous territory ahead of expected operations against illegal mining, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023. 
Environment
Lula declares humanitarian crisis for Brazil’s Yanomami territory, cracks down on illegal mining
One of the main dishes at The Pork House includes a crunchy roasted pork with beans and fresh vegetables and is paired with the Brazilian national drink: caipirinha. 
Food
Pork paradigm shift: This high-end São Paulo restaurant features pig ears and tails
Felled trees on Karipuna territory in the Amazonian state of Rondônia.
Environment
Lula empowers Brazil’s Indigenous peoples with their own ministry. But environmental protection remains a key concern.
The Belo Monte dam.
Environment
Lula vows to end illegal mining in the Amazon. But legal mining is more complicated.
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Sports
Brazil’s yellow-and-green soccer jersey stirs up controversy
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Elections
‘We want democracy’: Lula’s supporters celebrate his victory over Bolsonaro for the presidency in Brazil
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva celebrates with his wife Rosangela Silvaand running mate Geraldo Alckmin after defeating incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in a presidential run-off to become the country's next president, in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Elections
Brazil’s Lula to reclaim presidency after beating Bolsonaro
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Sacred Nation
Evangelicals in Brazil want to make contact with Indigenous groups. But why?
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Sacred Nation
Afro Brazilian religious groups are under attack
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Sacred Nation
Brazil’s evangelicals work with the US on a political mission
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Sacred Nation
Brazil’s evangelicals stand with President Bolsonaro
Commuters wear protective face masks as they walk through a subway station, in São Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Brazil joined the widening circle of countries to report cases of the omicron variant. 
COVID-19
Brazil heads into latest COVID surge amid public health information blackout
Luzia Barbosa de Oliveira, not pictured, is transported on a boat to her home partially submerged by flood waters in Sambaituba, a rural area of Ilheus, Bahia state, Brazil.
Natural disasters
‘It’s a gigantic tragedy’: Flooding in Brazil’s Bahia state displaces tens of thousands
Palestinian laborers work building new houses in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Bruchin near the Palestinian town of Nablus
Top of The World
Israel approves nearly 3,000 new Jewish settlement homes in the West Bank
Lady Laurentino, 74, poses for a photo next to a wood fire she uses to cook near the door of her home in the Jardim Gramacho favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 4, 2021. With the surge in cooking gas prices, Laurentino says she is cooking with wood bec
Justice
Analysts: ‘Pandora Papers’ revelations will make Brazil’s already precarious economy even more unstable
Vials of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines in Jackson, Miss.
Top of The World
Moderna to build manufacturing plant in Africa
Visitors look at the Chinese military's KJ-500 airborne early warning and control aircraft during 13th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, also known as Airshow China 2021, in Zhuhai in southern China's Guangdong province
Top of The World
Why China’s air force is provoking Taiwan
Teenage boys fly kites in an open field in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Lifestyle
Brazil takes its kite-flying passion to a whole new level
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro waves to people during a ceremony marking Soldier Day at Army headquarters in Brasilia, Brazil, Aug. 25, 2021. 
Brazil under Bolsonaro
Bolsonaro rallies his base with voter fraud claims ahead of elections in Brazil
Man with oxygen mask lies face down on a stretcher with a green blanket on top and two people in the distance
COVID-19
COVID downward spiral in Latin America disrupts life-saving services
Girl stands in front of destroyed buildings
Top of The World
Israel and Hamas begin ceasefire
A woman receives a plate of food donated by the Leao Xlll Foundation amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 7, 2021.
Hunger, unemployment, health care inequity: The pandemic’s devastating impact on Brazil’s Black communities
The Belo Monte hydroelectric dam stands in the Xingu River in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, Friday, Sept. 6, 2019. 
Environment
Plan to divert water to Brazil’s Belo Monte dam threatens Indigenous peoples and wildlife
MC Fioti during the recording of the remix version of his 2017 hit "Bum Bum Tam Tam," which has become Brazil's COVID-19 vaccine anthem. 
COVID-19
This funk remix became Brazil’s COVID-19 vaccine anthem
A woman is show with her face in her hands and crouched down with a man next to her with his hand on her shoulder.
Top of The World
Brazil struggles with new COVID-19 strain; Entire Dutch government resigns over child welfare scandal; Deadly earthquake hits Indonesia
Amazonas Federal University's workers carry empty oxygen tanks at the Getulio Vargas Hospital amid the new coronavirus pandemic, Manaus, Brazil, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. Scores of COVID-19 patients in the Amazon rainforest's biggest city will be transferr
Brazil weighs COVID-19 vaccines as its death toll climbs
A demonstrator reacts during a protest against racism after João Alberto Silveira Freitas was beaten to death by security guards at a Carrefour supermarket in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Nov. 23, 2020.
Black man’s death by security guards in Brazil sparks outrage, protests
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Displacement
Brazilian housing movements fight surging evictions amid coronavirus
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Security reformers in Bolsonaro’s Brazil look to America’s pro-gun campaigners
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Food
The Brazilian Christmas dinner is incomplete without this dish
a man holds a protest sign in Lisbon
Global Politics
With presidential elections looming, Brazilian migrants in Portugal ramp up political activism amid chaotic scenario back home
A muddy river runs through a green landscape. On one side are trees and a dense forest; the other is bare.
The Amazon's carbon tipping point
‘Our wealth is the forest’: Indigenous tribes are the last best hope for the Amazon
U.S. Separating Children from Parents at Border
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A man wears a black "Lula Innocent" t-shirt and stands among a group of the former Brazilian president's supporters.
Global Politics
Brazil’s top court rules that ex-president Lula can be jailed
Arts, Culture & Media
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Arts, Culture & Media
360 Staff Pick: Brazil via Minnesota
Arts, Culture & Media
Have You Been to Bahia?
Arts, Culture & Media
Colombian Music (Way) Beyond Shakira
Arts, Culture & Media
360 Staff Pick: Caetano Veloso and Son
Former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a meeting with members of the Workers Party that decided Lula da Silva will be its candidate again in the 2018 election, despite losing an appeal against a corruption conviction that will likely
Global Politics
Lula’s limbo between prison and presidency looms over 2018 Brazil race
Members of Brazil's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community posing for a portrait inside a free residential shelter called CASA 1 or "House 1" in downtown São Paulo on May 16, 2017.
Justice
Brazil is accused of stripping away LGBT rights
Rebuilding Brazil’s economy requires more than BRICS and China
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The Top Risks of 2017, Violence in Chicago, The New Space Race
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Economics
Why Haitians are stranded in Mexico
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Economics
The daunting tasks facing Brazil’s new president
Nana Vasconcelos
Music
Remembering Nana Vasconcelos, renowned Brazilian percussionist
Fighting the Zika Virus on the Front Lines in Brazil
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Environment
‘Little Teresa’ helps São Paulo women fight drought and male domination — with rain barrels
Nadja Cristina Gomes Bezerra
Health
Brazil’s microcephaly outbreak captured in portraits
Germana Soares is shown holding her child next to a doctor holding a black and white striped card.
Health
‘We have a child with microcephaly, and we’re happy’
Brazil Zika and Olympic budget comparison chart
Health
The budget for the Rio Olympics is 16 times higher than the budget to combat the Zika virus
Brazilian soldiers inspecting water container for Zika
Health
Improving water sources, sanitation facilities and poverty alleviation may not be the solution to Brazil’s Zika outbreak
A baby born with microcephaly reacts to stimulus during an evaluation session with a physiotherapist at the Altino Ventura rehabilitation center in Recife, Brazil on January 28, 2016.
Health
We’re not sure if Zika is causing all those microcephaly cases. But there’s no evidence it’s pesticides.
Brazilian soldiers distribute educational flyers about the Zika virus in São Paulo, the country's largest city.
Environment
Zika is a window into a much bigger story in Brazil