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News Articles: Brazil

Ruty Pereira sits with her daughter, Tamara, in their apartment in Maceió, in eastern Brazil. Tamara, whose development was impacted in utero by the Zika virus, eats through a feeding tube.

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  • Global Health

These Zika mothers went to battle — and their cry was heard

After the Zika outbreak ended in Brazil, many families faced a new reality: a child whose life was irrevocably altered after the mother contracted the virus while pregnant. Here's what happened next.

November 29, 2025
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
André Corrêa do Lago, center, the president of the COP30 climate conference in Brazil, sat as negotiators huddled in last-minute deliberations on Saturday.

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  • Climate

U.N. climate talks end without agreement on phasing out fossil fuels

Dozens of countries had called for a clear "roadmap" to transition away from the use of coal, oil and natural gas. The U.S. did not participate in the negotiations.

November 23, 2025
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By:
  • Julia Simon,
  • Michael Copley,
  • and 1 more
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro stands at the entrance of his home where he was under house arrest in Brasilia, Brazil, on Sept. 2.

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  • Latin America

Brazil's Bolsonaro arrested for allegedly plotting escape ahead of prison term

Brazil's Supreme Court ordered the arrest of Jair Bolsonaro, with a judge claiming the former president was intent on escaping as he was set to begin his prison sentence for leading a coup attempt.

November 22, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in Brasília on July 17.

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  • Latin America

Brazil's Supreme Court votes to convict ex-President Bolsonaro of a coup plot

A historic conviction: Brazil's Supreme Court delivers a majority vote to convict former President Jair Bolsonaro over a plot to overthrow the government.

September 11, 2025
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By:
  • Júlia Dias Carneiro
Former President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the press after testifying to the federal police in an investigation involving his son, former Congressman Eduardo Bolsonaro, in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, June 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

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  • Latin America

Brazil's ex-President Bolsonaro faces coup trial — here's what to know

Brazil's Supreme Court begins the verdict and sentencing phase of Jair Bolsonaro's coup trial Tuesday, with the former president facing a possible 40-year sentence.

September 02, 2025
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro, temporarily allowed out of house arrest for medical exams, leaves a hospital in Brasília, Brazil, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

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  • Latin America

Brazilian police say ex-President Bolsonaro had planned to flee to Argentina

Bolsonaro is awaiting a Supreme Court ruling about an alleged coup attempt and learned Wednesday he might face another case as police formally accused him and one of his son of obstruction of justice

August 21, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Sen. Raphael Warnock speaks with press after a tour of the Xocolatl factory in Atlanta.

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  • Economy

A small Atlanta chocolate factory is feeling the impacts of tariffs

Georgia small businesses are feeling the impacts of tariffs on products they need to import. Senator Raphael Warnock visited a chocolate factory in Atlanta on Tuesday to learn how they are coping. 

August 20, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro gives a press conference outside the Senate in Brasilia.

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  • Latin America

Brazil's Supreme Court orders house arrest for former President Bolsonaro

The trial of the far-right leader is receiving renewed attention after U.S. President Donald Trump directly tied a 50% tariff on imported Brazilian goods to his ally's judicial situation.

August 05, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Inside a bug-making factory in Rio de Janeiro, a team of workers transfer loads of mosquito larvae to cleaner water. These mosquitoes are special — they've been engineered to shut down the transmission of the very diseases they usually spread.

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  • Global Health

Get ready, Brazil. The 'good mosquitoes' are coming

Scientists are driving around in white Chevys, releasing thousands of specially engineered mosquitoes from tubes — part of a pioneering project to reduce the spread of dengue, a terrible disease.

July 26, 2025
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Protesters hold up an effigy of U.S. President Donald Trump in response to Trump's announcement of 50% tariffs on Brazilian goods, in Sao Paulo, Thursday, July 10.

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  • Economy

Trump's Brazil tariffs are 'grotesquely illegal,' says Nobel Prize-winning economist

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman believes tariffs President Trump has threatened to impose on countries, including Mexico and Brazil, are here to stay and will cost U.S. consumers.

July 14, 2025
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By:
  • Steve Inskeep and
  • Destinee Adams
GPB  NPR

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  • Latin America

8 people killed, 13 injured after hot-air balloon catches fire and falls in Brazil

A hot-air balloon caught fire and tumbled from the sky in Brazil's southern state of Santa Catarina, killing eight people, firefighters said. Thirteen people survived and were taken to hospitals.

June 21, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attends his Supreme Court trial along with others charged in an alleged coup plot to keep him in office after his 2022 election defeat, in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, June 10, 2025.

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  • Latin America

Bolsonaro takes the stand in historic Brazil coup trial

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro took the stand Tuesday, accused of plotting a coup to cling to power after losing the 2022 election. It's the first time a former Brazilian leader is being tried for attempting to overthrow the government.

June 10, 2025
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By:
  • Júlia Dias Carneiro
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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By:
  • 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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By:
  • 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
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