President Michelle Bachelet marked her second inauguration last month wearing the country’s traditional red, white and blue presidential...

The history of targeted mob violence in this country is not pretty. The act of lynching – heavily racialized in the American context –...

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The politics of welfare, here in the United States and abroad, are fraught with tension, and poverty reduction programs have long been a...

Brazil has always been a country of contradictions. Perhaps no place is more indicative of this than Rio de Janeiro, a city where the...

The night before Brazil’s September 7th Independence Day celebrations, Marcelo D2, one of the founding fathers of Brazilian rap and a...

#ChangeBrazil, #VemPraRua, #OGiganteAcordou. Whoever first thought to use these trending Brazilian protest labels must feel like an...

It used to be that people would think of Brazil in terms of sparkling beaches, suave bossa nova clubs, and the occasional scantly clad...

In September 2011, two friends and I took a twenty-six hour bus ride through the dirt roads linking Brasília to São Félix do Araguaia, a...

Modern Brazil is a country defined by its optimism. Marked by a history of prosperous booms and repressive regimes, the country has often...