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Jan 172 min read
In the Amazon, women lead efforts to grow acai berry production
SAO PAULO - In the tiny community of Ilha da Jussara, at the northern tip of the Brazilian Amazon, growing acai berries - a superfood...
Jan 174 min read
Analysis-Lula's embrace of new Brazil central banker has markets wary
BRASILIA - After months of rancor, ties between President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Brazil's central bank look poised for an era of...
Dec 28, 20243 min read
Brazil says workers at China's BYD site are victims of human trafficking
RIO DE JANEIRO/SHANGHAI - Chinese workers at a construction site in Brazil for a factory owned by China's electric vehicle producer BYD...
Dec 17, 20242 min read
Brazil heron takes flight after plastic cup removed from throat
RIO DE JANEIRO- A heron took flight in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, stretching its wings and soaring over a river after veterinarians saved...
Dec 17, 20242 min read
Brazil's Lula leaves hospital, speaks publicly for first time since surgeries
RIO DE JANEIRO - Doctors discharged Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from a Sao Paulo hospital on Sunday, after a pair of...
Dec 17, 20244 min read
Analysis-Case against Brazil coup plotters could end decades of impunity
SAO PAULO - The arrest of a four-star general in Brazil over the weekend shows courts are ready to play hardball with those accused of...
Dec 15, 20245 min read
New technology aids Brazil's crackdown on illicit Amazon gold trade
BRASILIA - Harley Sandoval, an evangelical pastor, real estate agent and mining entrepreneur, was arrested in July 2023 for illegally...
Dec 13, 20242 min read
Brazil's Lula has head drain removed after second surgery, doctors say
SAO PAULO - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had a drain removed from his head on Thursday evening, his doctors said, as he...
Dec 10, 20242 min read
Brazil's Lula rushed to Sao Paulo for brain surgery, stable in ICU
SAO PAULO -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was rushed to Sao Paulo overnight for emergency surgery to drain a bleed on his...
Nov 25, 20244 min read
Analysis-Bolsonaro sidelined from Brazil's political scene as Trump enjoys resurgence
SAO PAULO - The political fortunes of Brazil's hard-right former President Jair Bolsonaro long mirrored those of his ideological ally...
Nov 25, 20242 min read
Explainer-What is the state of Bolsonaro's legal trouble in Brazil?
SAO PAULO - Brazilian police released a report on Thursday formally accusing former President Jair Bolsonaro, an icon of the global...
Nov 20, 20243 min read
Analysis-Brazil bomb attack hurts Bolsonaro comeback efforts, deepening political divide
BRASILIA - A failed bomb attack on Brazil's Supreme Court looks set to re-unite Brasilia against far-right radicalism and scuttle a...
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