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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Trying to Understand Brazilians? Start by Their Memes
You have probably already stumbled upon a Brazilian meme on one of your internet ...
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 ...
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 ...
A Brazilian Landless Movement’s Leader Talks About the MST’s Mistakes, Challenges and Plans
During the 1960s, legend has it that governor José Sarney sat down at a ...
100 Policemen Killed in Rio this Year, One Every 57 Hours
The number of police officers killed so far this year in the Brazilian city ...
Are Brazilians Hispanics? Latinos? It Depends. Most Would Like to Just Be Called Brazilian
Bikini waxes, keratin hair blowouts and all-you-can-eat steakhouses. In the United States, all three ...
Descendants of Runaway Slaves the Latest Victims of Brazil’s Rush to End Social Protections
With the recent onslaught of initiatives launched by Brazil’s wealthy ruralist elite to undo ...