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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...
9 hours ago
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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...
Oct 5, 2024
River level at Amazon rainforest port hits 122-year low amid drought
MANAUS, Brazil - The river port in the Amazon rainforest's largest city of Manaus on Friday hit its lowest level since 1902, as a drought...
Oct 2, 2024
Brazil's coast eroding faster than ever as Atlantic advances
ATAFONA, Brazil - Sonia Ferreira's two-story house with a pool and garden on the Brazilian coast was yet another casualty of the...
Sep 22, 2024
'Who pays?' asks Brazil Greenpeace protest on climate impact in the Amazon
MANACAPURU, Brazil - A team of Brazilian Greenpeace environmental activists on Friday placed a protect banner on a sandbank that has...
Sep 21, 2024
Dolphins dying again in Amazon lake made shallow by drought
TEFE, Brazil - The carcass of a baby dolphin lay on the sand bank left exposed by the receding waters in an Amazon lake that has been...
Sep 19, 2024
Worst drought on record lowers Amazon rivers to all-time lows
TEFE, Brazil - The worst drought on record has lowered the water level of the rivers in the Amazon basin to historic lows, in some cases...
Sep 18, 2024
Candidate for Sao Paulo mayor clobbered with chair in chaotic debate
A televised debate among election rivals for mayor of Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest city, descended into chaos when one struggling...
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