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News Articles: Brazil

Coffee fruit dries in the late-afternoon sun on a farm in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.

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  • Food

Savor your coffee; someone probably lost sleep over it

When I get up and make my first cup of coffee, I do it like performing a sacred ritual. I know that those beans traveled far, and were cared for.

July 09, 2023
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By:
  • Nic Neves
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro at Brasilia International Airport on Thursday.

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  • World

A Brazil court has banned Bolsonaro from running for election until 2030

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been barred from office for eight years for abuse of power, after he made unfounded claims about Brazil's voting system ahead of last year's election.

June 30, 2023
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the press as he leaves the Federal Senate in Brasília on June 21.

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  • World

Bolsonaro goes on trial over electoral fraud claims that could bar him from elections

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro goes on trial Thursday, facing charges that he spread false information about Brazil's election system. He's also facing allegations that he abused his power.

June 22, 2023
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
Alessandra Korap Munduruku demanded that mining company Anglo American withdraw its permits to develop projects on her ancestral land.

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  • Environment

How a Brazilian activist stood up to mining giants to protect her ancestral rainforest

Indigenous activist Alessandra Korap Munduruku was one of this year's recipients of the Goldman Environmental Prize for grassroots activists.

June 13, 2023
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By:
  • Jill Langlois
Guarani Indigenous block Bandeirantes highway to protest proposed legislation that would change the policy that demarcates Indigenous lands on the outskirts of Sao Paulo.

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  • World

Brazil's Indigenous people protest as lawmakers vote to limit their land rights

Brazilian Indigenous leaders and environmentalists are outraged after lawmakers approved a measure that would affect claims to Indigenous land, and potentially, environmental protections.

May 31, 2023
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
U.S. Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., speaks to the media outside the federal courthouse in Central Islip, N.Y., Wednesday. The next day, he appeared virtually in a Brazilian court to face separate charges.

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  • World

George Santos confessed to stealing checks in Brazil in a deal to drop charges

The New York Republican congressman reached a deal with Brazilian prosecutors in which he agreed to confess and pay restitution and fines to avoid prosecution.

May 12, 2023
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
An aerial picture shows an illegal mining camp during an operation by the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources against Amazon deforestation at the Yanomami territory in Roraima state, Brazil, on Feb. 24.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: The global gold rush puts the Amazon rainforest at greater risk

Gold prices are soaring. Cue the gold rush, and with it, more challenges for Brazil and efforts to protect the world's largest tropical forest, write Robert Muggah and Mac Margolis.

May 10, 2023
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By:
  • Robert Muggah and
  • Mac Margolis
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro leaves Federal Police headquarters after giving testimony over the Jan. 8 attacks, in Brasilia, April 26.

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  • World

Brazil police raid ex-President Bolsonaro's home in COVID vaccine card investigation

Police raided former President Jair Bolsonaro's home, investigating claims of suspected efforts to falsify vaccination records to travel to the U.S. He denies any role in allegedly forging documents.

May 03, 2023
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
Brazilian football legend Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé, poses with his six Brazil's champion medals in 2010. A Portuguese language dictionary has recognized his name as a synonym for greatness.

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  • World

'Pelé' now officially means 'exceptional,' a Brazilian dictionary declares

"Pelé" — the nickname of one of soccer's greatest players — has long been used as a synonym for greatness. Now, a Brazilian dictionary is making that meaning official with a new entry.

April 27, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson
People save icons as they clear rubble after a Russian rocket ruined an Orthodox church in an Easter attack, in Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, early hours Sunday.

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  • World

Latest on Ukraine: Russia's prisoners, Brazil's diplomacy, the fight for Bakhmut

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

April 17, 2023
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By:
  • NPR Staff
A student cries after the 2019 attack on a public school in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The attack, by two former students, resulted in 10 deaths, including the attackers, who turned their weapons on themselves. It was one of the deadliest school attacks in the country's history.

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  • Global Health

School attacks are on the rise in Brazil, prompting debate over solutions

The numbers are far less than in the U.S. but school attacks are definitely on the increase, prompting soul-searching — and a national debate over strategies to prevent future tragedies.

April 12, 2023
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By:
  • Jill Langlois
A Ukrainian MSLR BM-21 "Grad" fires toward Russian positions in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, April 8.

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  • World

Latest on Ukraine: Pentagon leaks, France's overtures in China and Finland in NATO

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

April 10, 2023
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By:
  • NPR Staff
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro greets supporters from a window at the Liberal Party headquarters in Brasília on Thursday after arriving back in Brazil on a commercial flight from Orlando, Fla.

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  • Latin America

Former President Bolsonaro returns to Brazil after three months in Florida

The far-right leader went to Florida after losing his bid for re-election, days before his rival was inaugurated. While in Florida, Bolsonaro frequently met with supporters and conservative groups.

March 30, 2023
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn and
  • Kaitlyn Radde
The jewelry with diamonds gifted to former President Jair Bolsonaro and his wife Michelle Bolsonaro by the Saudi government, which was seized by customs officials, is seen at São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport, in Guarulhos, Brazil, on Tuesday.

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  • World

Gifted jewelry from Saudi Arabia entangles Brazil's ex-President Bolsonaro

A scandal is unfolding in Brazil involving millions of dollars worth of jewels, the Saudi government and former President Jair Bolsonaro.

March 15, 2023
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By:
  • Carrie Kahn
This photo provided by the Sao Paulo Government shows vehicles fallen from an elevated area along the beach in Sao Sebastiao, east of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, after it was damaged by a severe weather system went through the area.

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  • Weather

Heavy rains leave dozens dead in Brazil as cities cancel Carnival

The cities of Sao Sebastiao, Ubatuba, Ilhabela and Bertioga, some of the hardest hit and now under state of calamity, canceled their Carnival festivities as rescue teams struggle to find the missing.

February 20, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
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