Brazil’s lower house of Congress approved a measure Sunday to move forward with the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff. Rousseff, who is accused of authorizing an accounting trick to minimize the appearance of state...
Brazil is currently reeling from political and economic crises that have left the country shaken and polarized. A two year corruption investigation into a kickback scheme at the state oil company Petrobras is coming...
A research team from the U.S. Center for Disease Control arrived in Brazil Monday to begin a case-control study to find out if the Zika virus really is the cause of a spike in...
Brazil’s Mariana mining disaster, in which a large dam holding toxic mining waste burst last month, is now considered the country’s worst environmental disaster in history. The sludge buried an entire town under mud...
Public school students in São Paulo, Brazil have successfully stalled state government plans to close 94 public schools as part of a rehaul of the public education system. The closures would have affected more...
Off duty police are the prime suspects in taking part one of the bloodiest nights in São Paulo’s history when 19 people were killed in around two hours by masked gunmen. The massacre is...
More than 50,000 rural women demonstrated in Brazil’s capital Brasilia Tuesday. Their demands include agrarian reform, sustainable development and an end to violence against women. The action, known as the March of the Daisies, is...
Legislation before Brazil’s Congress could amend the country’s constitution to lower the age of criminal liability for violent crimes from 18 to 16. The controversial bill – passed last month by the lower house...
Indigenous people in Brazil’s Amazon region continue to suffer violence, intimidation and forced displacement from their lands — usually at the hands of interests tied to big business and development. To highlight the issue,...
Agribusiness interests in Brazil are facing off against indigenous groups calling for official recognition of territorial claims. During the opening ceremony of the World Cup, a Guarani Indian youth held up a small banner...
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