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Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara, who died in 1999, was an advocate for Liberation Theology. He was the Archbishop of Olinda and Recife

What the World Can Learn from a Moribund Liberation Theology

This June saw the passing of two of our generation’s most fascinating and controversial ...

An Amazon community - Photo by Bruna Arcangelo Toledo

Amazon Forest’s Keepers Under Pressure of Ranchers Fear for Their Future

In western Brazil’s Amazon, the people tasked with looking after the world’s greatest rainforest ...

São Paulo's mayor shows what the population calls "pet food" - the Ballarini/SECOM

São Paulo’s Mayor Finds a Solution for Malnutrition in Schools: Human Pet Food

Brazilian prosecutors are probing a plan proposed by São Paulo Mayor João Doria that ...

Slave work in Brazil is far from over

New Labor Rules Will Make Slave Work Still More Common in Brazil

Victims of slave labor in Brazil are less likely to be rescued following a ...

Fritz's map of Amazonia, published in 1707 - Samuel Fritz

Tired of Being Denied Territory, Amazon Peoples Are Drawing Their Own Maps

In 1707, a Jesuit missionary from the Czech Republic named Samuel Fritz published one ...

The "confused" lady is a character from a 2004 soap opera who kidnapped a baby and killed some people | Image: Twitter/Reproduction.

Trying to Understand Brazilians? Start by Their Memes

You have probably already stumbled upon a Brazilian meme on one of your internet ...

Cleaning electoral leaflets from the street.

The Streets Clamored for It, But Brazilian Congress Is Bungling the Electoral Reform

Brazil’s Congress is rushing to approve a series of legislative reforms to update the ...

From "Abortion Movie" by Lincoln Péricles, 2016

The Case to Legalize Abortion in Brazil While Congress Tries to Ban It

I met “Mariana,” a 20-year-old Brazilian woman, in Paraíba state, almost a year ago ...