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Why São Paulo falls into chaos when it rains

Footage from São Paulo on Monday was shocking. Cars being swept away by rushing streams, trees ripped from the (...) READ MORE

Armed gunmen surround a local police station, while traffic spikes are laid in strategic positions around town. At the (...) READ MORE

Two Nobel prizes in literature will be awarded this year—to make up for the lack of one in 2018, (...) READ MORE

Around the world, Brazil’s Carnival is synonymous with parties and, why not, a bit of flirting. However, in a (...) READ MORE

In the old town of Olinda, in north-eastern Brazil, at the stroke of midnight, a giant man emerges from (...) READ MORE

Brazilians like to say Carnival is the greatest show on Earth, but what many people do not know is (...) READ MORE

Carnival is not only a time for people to tune out from their everyday lives and throw themselves into (...) READ MORE

On February 13, newly-elected congressman Daniel Silveira put forward two bills to propose that casualties in police shootouts would (...) READ MORE

During his presidential campaign, Jair Bolsonaro once said: “minorities should bend to the majority—or they will be crushed.” The (...) READ MORE

On February 11, Brazilians were shocked when news broke that journalist Ricardo Boechat —one of the country’s most-famous radio (...) READ MORE