Flordelis dos Santos de Souza’s life sounds like something out of a daytime soap opera. The Brazilian gospel singer, who first rose to...

Nine months after the novel coronavirus was announced in China, it has spread to nearly every inch of the globe. Even the most isolated...

In his inaugural address, newly elected Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro declared he would free the country from “socialism and...

At the end of October, Brazil became the latest country to move to the far-right, electing the ultra-conservative Jair Bolsonaro to the...

Fifty years ago, when Carlos Monteiro began his career as a pediatrician in the sprawling slums of São Paulo, his patients were starving....

In a given year, 4,224 people are killed by police brutality in Brazil (2016), 1,147 in the U.S. (2017), and 11 in Germany (2016). In...

At the end of January, a Brazilian appeals court ruled unanimously to uphold the bribery conviction of former president Luiz Inácio Lula...

With a population of only 6.9 million people and one of the smallest economies in South America, Paraguay is often overlooked in...

Undemocratic coups come in many forms. Not all of them are violent, seemingly disorganized uprisings – the ‘standard’ coup, so to speak....

Brazil’s Bolsa Família has dutifully served as the flagship of Brazilian social welfare since its christening in 2003. The conditional...

The events playing out across Brazilian public high schools could very well have been penned by William Golding, but they are far from...

Brazil has become a nation defined by political backlash. Since early 2014, a regional Brazilian judge named Sérgio Moro has risen to...

Roberta Jacobson ’82  is an American diplomat who is currently the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. She previously served as the Assistant...

On the morning of March 4, at the São Bernardo do Campo residence of former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazilians witnessed a...

It’s hard to draw a line between Brazil’s arts institutions and the corporations that finance them. The Brazilian arts world depends on...

Mauricio Santoro is a human rights advisor for Amnesty International in Brazil. He is also a political science professor at Cândido...

In São Paolo, water consumption remains high, rainwater is at a record low and, not too suddenly, the city is facing its worst hydric...

“Be careful, someone was killed here last month,” the cab driver said as he dropped us off at the entrance to Vidigal, one of Rio de...

The obvious is treated discretely in Brazil: Two women are fighting head-to-head for the presidency, one black and one white, and yet...

In July, after several months of discussion, the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) have finally...