Brazil
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AMERICAS
Brazilian Democracy Keeps the Beat While Congress Rushes to Pass Amnesty
On Rio's Copacabana, a protest turned into a warning as Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gil, and Djavan led thousands…
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ANALYSIS
Brazil’s Waterway Debate: Progress Cannot Mean Empty Nets and Silenced Rivers
The government's plan to blast rock outcrops along the Tocantins to carve a 100-meter-wide waterway promises cheaper soy shipments. In…
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ANALYSIS
Bolsonaro’s 27-Year Sentence Forces Brazil’s Right to Choose Between Loyalty and Reinvention
Brazil's Supreme Court has sentenced Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years in prison for plotting to overturn the 2022 election. As…
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ANALYSIS
Brazil Weighs Justice as Street Flags Blur into Rival Camps
What should have been a patriotic holiday of flags, music, and barbecue became a test of Brazil's democracy. As the…
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Brazil’s Discovery of CBD In a Common Shrub Could Reshape the Medical Cannabis Debate
Brazilian scientists say they have detected cannabidiol (CBD) inside Trema micrantha, a hardy shrub often dismissed as a weed. The…
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ECONOMY
Brazil’s Jequitinhonha Valley Emerges as Lithium El Dorado
Global hunger for electric cars has turned Brazil's Jequitinhonha Valley into a lithium El Dorado, luring billions in mining investments,…
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SPORTS
Brazilian Star Vinícius Roars Back as Madrid’s Meritocracy Bites
After five matches without a goal or assist—his energy drained by an endless season and a stunted preseason—Vinícius Júnior woke…
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ANALYSIS
Brazil Institutions Tested Facing Obstruction Storm, Tariffs, and Potential Bolsonaro Argentina Asylum
Jair Bolsonaro's political future is colliding with police files, draft letters, and international tariffs. Accused of obstruction alongside his son…
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LIFE
A Reporter’s Fatal Quest Reshapes How We Imagine the Amazon Today
Dom Phillips set out to write a book about saving the Amazon without heroes or villains. After his murder with…
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LIFE
Jean Wyllys Returns to Brazil to Face the Machine That Tried to Silence Him
After years of death threats, exile, and a relentless smear campaign, Jean Wyllys—the reality-show winner turned openly gay lawmaker—is back…
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