List of Brazil articles
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Bolsonaro waves at the crowd during a campaign rally in the district of Ceilandia in Brasilia, on September 5, 2018. (Evaristo SA/FP/Getty Images) How a Candidate’s Stabbing Will Further Radicalize Brazil
Right-wing populist Jair Bolsonaro’s wounds will heal, but the country’s politics will never be the same.
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Brazilian congressman and presidential candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, waves to the crowd during a military event in Sao Paulo, Brazil on May 3, 2018. Latin America’s Center Cannot Hold If It Doesn’t Exist
Mainstream establishment parties across the continent have been replaced by populists offering easy and empty answers.
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Foto, Michael Melo Reporter’s Notebook: Brazil’s Forgotten Children and Russia’s #MeToo Problem
FP’s April magazine: “The End of Human Rights” tackled issues from the Amazon to Vladivostok. On today’s E.R. episode, we talk to two contributors.
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Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gestures to supporters at the headquarters of the Metalworkers' Union on April 7, 2018 in the Sao Bernardo do Campo section of Sao Paulo, Brazil after a warrant for his arrest was issued. The former president told the crowd "I will comply with their warrant." Lula Lost, But Brazil’s Democracy Has Won
By going to jail, the former president signaled his respect for the rule of law.
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Foto, Michael Melo The Right to Kill
Should Brazil keep its Amazon tribes from taking the lives of their children?
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The now-missing ARA San Juan submarine in Buenos Aires on May 23, 2014. (Alejandro Moritz/AFP/Getty Images) Five Questions About the Missing Argentine Submarine
Despite a large international search effort, time is running out for the crew.
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DeOliveira1 One Woman’s Fight to Claim Her ‘Blackness’ in Brazil
The experience of a young lawyer raises difficult questions about race, belonging, and the bureaucracy of affirmative action in a country lauded for its egalitarian history.
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DeOliveira Os vários tons de Maíra Mutti Araújo
Num país famoso por um ideal de mistura racial, a luta de uma candidata para usar cotas raciais levanta questões complexas sobre cor e identidade no Brasil.
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ipat-2 Brazil Has Become a Gangland
With the country’s politics plagued by scandal and corruption, Brazil’s gangs are fighting a deadly and brazen turf war — inside and out of the broken prison system.
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brazil protests Protesters Storm Government Ministries in Brazil
But President Michel Temer still isn’t stepping down.
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temer Yet Another Presidential Corruption Scandal in Brazil
Forget the U.S. presidential scandal. Brazil is pillorying its second president in two years, both on allegations of corruption.
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BRASILIA, BRAZIL - JUNE 27: Members of group Educafro protest in silence in front of the Presidential Palace on favor of the racial quota policies on June 27, 2012 in Brasilia, Brazil. (Photo by Peter Francia/News Free/LatinContent/Getty Images) Brazil’s New Problem With Blackness
As the proudly mixed-race country grapples with its legacy of slavery, affirmative-action race tribunals are measuring skull shape and nose width to determine who counts as disadvantaged.
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disease-crop Deadly Yellow Fever Outbreak in Brazil Sparks Fears of Zika-Like Epidemic
Brazilian authorities work to prevent history from repeating itself.
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RECIFE, BRAZIL - DECEMBER 12: Juan Pedro, who has microcephaly and turned 1 year old on December 4, is held by his godmother Sinthia on December 12, 2016 in Recife, Brazil. As many of the babies with microcephaly, believed to be linked to the Zika virus, turn 1 year old in Recife, doctors and mothers are adapting and learning treatments to assist and calm the children. Many of the children are suffering a plethora of difficulties including vision and hearing problems with doctors now labeling the overall condition as "congenital Zika syndrome." Authorities have recorded thousands of cases in Brazil in which the mosquito-borne Zika virus may have led to microcephaly in infants. Microcephaly results in an abnormally small head in newborns and is associated with various disorders. The state with the most cases is Pernambuco, whose capital is Recife, and is being called the epicenter of the outbreak. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) Condemned to Life in Zikaland
In Recife, Brazil’s ground zero of the Zika virus, a community struggles to deal with the devastating spread of microcephaly.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In Brazil, a Corruption Case Begins as Economy Still Struggles
Is the trial against Brazil's former president a balm for or distraction from the country's current economic woes?
