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News Articles: Brazil

The winner of this year's World Food Prize, Mariangela Hungria, showed how microbes could bring a higher soybean yield — turning Brazil into a soybean superpower.

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  • Global Health

The 'Oscar' of food prizes goes to a Brazilian who harnessed the power of bacteria

This year's $500,000 World Food Prize, for advances in agriculture and nutrition, goes to Mariangela Hungria, who boosted Brazil's farming revolution, turning the country into a soybean superpower.

May 14, 2025
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  • Dan Charles
Paraguay Foreign Minister Rubén Ramírez Lezcano speaks during a press conference during his visit in Taipei, Taiwan.

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  • Latin America

Paraguay recalls ambassador to Brazil over espionage revelations

Brazil's foreign ministry revealed that the administration of Jair Bolsonaro, the right-wing predecessor of current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, had conducted espionage against Paraguay.

April 02, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to reporters after the Supreme Court voted that he should stand trial for allegedly attempting a coup after his 2022 electoral defeat, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday.

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  • World

Brazil's Supreme Court says Bolsonaro must stand trial over alleged coup attempt

The former far-right populist president, Jair Bolsonaro, will face trial for allegedly attempting to overturn his 2022 reelection loss and stage a violent coup.

March 26, 2025
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
Brazilian Minister of Human Rights Macae Evaristo speaks at a government ceremony to apologize to families of victims of the country's military dictatorship (1964-1985) at the Dom Bosco cemetery in Sao Paulo, Monday, March 24, 2025.

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  • Latin America

Brazil apologizes to families of victims of military dictatorship's mass grave

Brazil's government on Monday apologized to families of victims of the country's military dictatorship whose remains could be among those found in a clandestine mass grave 35 years ago.

March 24, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Professor Malandro and the students at Filhos de Bimba pose for a portrait.

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Atlanta capoeira students discuss cultural impact and finding community in martial arts

The Afro-Brazilian martial art began as a tool for self-defense and liberation for enslaved Africans in Brazil. Now capoeira students in Atlanta are learning that history through songs and the art form's many traditions.

February 28, 2025
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  • Amanda Andrews
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro at the National Congress building in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025.

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  • Latin America

Brazil's former president faces charges over alleged coup plot

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been charged for allegedly helping to mastermind far right coup plot to upset the country's 2022 election result.

February 18, 2025
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  • Carrie Kahn
<em>I'm Still Here, </em>starring Selton Mello and Fernanda Torres, has been nominated for a best picture Oscar.

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  • Movie Reviews

A family endures a dictatorship in the Oscar-nominated 'I'm Still Here'

A Brazilian family is rocked when the father disappears following a military coup. I'm Still Here tells the heroic true story of a wife and mother who steers her family through the rapids of tyranny.

February 07, 2025
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  • John Powers
Luis Cassiano is the founder of Teto Verde Favela, a nonprofit that teaches favela residents in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, how to build their own green roofs as a way to beat the heat. He's photographed at his house, which has a green roof.

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  • Global Health

Cooling green roofs seemed like an impossible dream for Brazil's favelas. Not true!

Temps soar in Brazil's summer (from December to March). Low-income favelas would benefit from green roofs but there are two problems: Cost. And a typical design that's too heavy for a favela home.

January 27, 2025
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  • Jill Langlois
A physician in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, examines an x-ray of a tuberculous patient.

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  • Global Health

Tuberculosis rates plunge when families living in poverty get a monthly cash payout

A program in Brazil that gives a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new study shows that it is dramatically reducing tuberculosis rates.

January 03, 2025
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  • Gabrielle Emanuel
The Juscelino Kubitschek Bridge, which collapsed into the Tocantins River in Estreito, Maranhao state, Brazil, is shown on Tuesday. Several cars and trucks crossing the bridge when it collapsed on Sunday fell into the river, killing nine people. Others are still missing.

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  • World

At least 9 people died when a bridge collapsed in Brazil

Another eight people remain unaccounted for. Several cars and trucks plunged into the Tocantins River after a section of the 1,748-foot-long bridge crumbled on Sunday.

December 27, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Indigenous women of Amazonia speak to the media at a press conference during United Nations Climate Change Conference COP29.

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  • Climate

Disappointed by this year's climate talks, Indigenous advocates look to Brazil in 2025

Indigenous advocates called the final agreement in Azerbaijan "drastically insufficient." Now they're focusing on next year's global climate summit in Brazil where Indigenous participation is expected to be historic.

November 29, 2024
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  • Nate Perez
Former President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the press after being formally charged by the federal police with attempted coup, at the airport in Brasilia, Brazil on Monday.

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  • World

Brazil police report: Bolsonaro planned and participated in a 2022 coup plot

The document describe the former president as one of the key leaders of the plot, and not a mere observer.

November 27, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Former President Jair Bolsonaro addresses supporters during a rally in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Feb. 25, 2024.

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  • Latin America

Former Brazilian president indicted over alleged coup plot

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro and several others have been charged with attempting to overthrow incoming government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2022.

November 21, 2024
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  • Carrie Kahn
Nossa Senhora do Livramento Community, located in the Manaus region, Amazonas. The record drought that hit the Rio Negro in the summer of 2024 affected the entire community. Many residents went to stay with relatives in Manaus, leaving the town empty.

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  • World

Rain is coming, but not enough after punishing Amazon drought

The world’s longest river is at its lowest levels ever due to devastating drought conditions. The dry conditions in Brazil's Amazon rainforest, have left tributaries and the vital waterway parched, stranding river communities, affecting commerce and livelihoods.

October 30, 2024
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  • Carrie Kahn
An ad by Valor media shows a photo of Elon Musk at a shopping center in Brasilia, Brazil, on Sept. 2.

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  • World

Musk's X to be reinstated in Brazil after complying with Supreme Court demands

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice authorized the restoration of the social media platform's service in Brazil, over a month after its nationwide shutdown, according to a court document.

October 08, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
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