Tag: Brazil

People perform during the Boi-Bumbá in Parintins. Photo provided by author

Parintins: An Amazon Island Overcomes Isolation Throwing the Boi Bumbá Party

There are no bridges or roads that connect the city-island of Parintins to the ...

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Mauro Cossu, Gonzalo Lizarralde, and Lisa Bornstein
The cover of The Musician

The Musician: An Excerpt by a Celebrated Best-selling Brazilian Author

Dr. Heloisa Prieto is one of Brazil’s most celebrated children and YA authors. As ...

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Many populist politicians do better in elections than polling suggests they will. Antonio Scorza/Shutterstock

Seen by Commentators as Unelectable, Brazil’s Bolsonaro Shows His Electoral Might

The sitting Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro secured an unexpected 43% vote in the recent ...

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Robert M. Dover
The first term of the elections ended up being a frustrating night for the Left

Far-Right’s Misinformation Machine Might Be Decisive in Brazil’s Election

Online disinformation is casting a shadow over Brazil’s presidential election. Jair Bolsonaro, the country’s ...

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Mac Margolis and Robert Muggah
The president of the Brazilian Academy of Science, Helena Nader / Rovena Rosa/Agência Brasil

Historically Challenged Brazilian Science & Technology Poised for Change with a Lula Victory

Brazilian science and technology have recently been in the news. Linked to the results ...

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Peter Sufrin
Could all these Latin American banknotes make way for a single currency in the region?

Talks of a Latin American Single Currency Are in the Air Again

Real, bolivar, peso: Latin America’s means of payment are as diverse as its cultures. ...

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Tobias Käufer
Rio's Christ the Redeemer dressed with the Chinese flag

Nobody Can Compete with the Chinese in Brazil and Latin America. EU Trying to Catch Up

The Brazilian community of Joinville should have presented German businesses with something of a ...

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Oliver Pieper
Movie director Aly Muritiba

A Brazilian Award-Winning Movie and the Transformative Power of Love

An Interview with Director Aly Muritiba “When I decided to make this film in ...

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Mafe Simonsen
A still from a FUNAI video of The Man of the Hole, filmed during a government monitoring mission

Brazil’s Man of the Hole Is Dead. The Last Survivor of His Tribe’s Genocide

An Indigenous man known as “The Man of the Hole” has died in Brazil. ...

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Sebastiana Pinto da Silva, midwife at Terra Dominial Indígena Barreira da Missão, in Tefé, Amazonas Photo: Luís Patriani.

‘Doctors Have Science, We Have Wisdom,” Says Midwife Defending Her Work Inside the Amazon

The community of Deus é Pai (“God is our Father”) sits by the Tefé ...

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Luís Patriani