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After 30 Years and Plastic Surgery, Police Nab Brazil’s Number One Druglord
Police have captured one of South America’s biggest cocaine kingpins, Luiz Carlos da Rocha, ...
A Brazil Judge Rules Again in Favor of Land-grabbers, Against Peasants in the Amazon
Until this week, 80 impoverished families, camped for almost a year under black plastic ...
Goodwill Ambassador Brazilian ‘Narcos’ Star Is on a Mission: End Slave Labor
As a boy growing up in Brazil’s impoverished northeastern state of Bahia, Brazilian actor ...
Brazil’s General Strike Didn’t Stop the Country and Brought Little Damage
Brazil went through Friday’s general strike, the second of its kind called for by ...
Unions Try to Stop Brazil with Protests Against Temer and Reforms
A general strike is sweeping Brazil this Friday for the second time this year. ...
The Killing Fields of Brazil: 61 Murdered Last Year Fighting for Their Land
A year after witnessing the murder of his friend by a gang of farmers ...
A New Brazilian Pastime: Watching the Virtual Wake of Perfect Strangers
Progress in communication technology has transformed our lives in the 21st century. It has ...
São Paulo Destroys Crackland and Offers Instead Forced Hospitalization for Drug Addicts
On May 21, 500 civil and military police descended on the downtown São Paulo ...
São Paulo’s Gay Parade Gets Political and Wages War Against Religious Fundamentalists
The world’s largest pride parade kicked off Sunday in São Paulo, Brazil, in a ...
While Brazilians Represent 3% of the World Population, They Commit 10% of the Murders
In just three weeks in 2015, Brazil had more homicides than all of the ...