Brazil Cracks Down on Surprising New Threat: Neo-Nazis
The Brazilian government has raided neo-Nazi groups across 10 states this year, part of a push by the new Lula administration to prosecute far-right extremists.
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Brazil: Lula deploys troops to ports and airports in organised crime crackdown
Military intervention to last until May and is reportedly designed to cut off key drug and gun smuggling routesThousands of troops have taken up position in the ports and airports of Rio and São Paulo and along Brazil’s western border as part of effort…
‘Funk is the reality we live’: Rio show celebrates sound of the favela
Exhibition puts music previously shunned by elites as ‘stuff of outlaws’ in long tradition of black culture and resistanceHebert Amorim was eight when he got his first taste of funk carioca (Rio funk): a pirate CD by Mr Catra, a favela MC famed for his…
Is Fluminense the Team of the Future?
A soccer revolution started with a text message, but the broader game wants proof. A win in the Copa Libertadores final on Saturday might provide it.
Deforestation has big impact on regional temperatures, study of Brazilian Amazon shows
Research highlights benefits forests bring surrounding regions in terms of cooler air and more rainfallDeforestation has a far greater impact on regional temperatures than previously believed, according to a new study of the Brazilian Amazon that shows…
Environmental crime money easy to stash in US due to loopholes, report finds
Secrecy and lax oversight mean illegal loggers and miners in Amazon can park billions in real estate and other assetsSecrecy and lax oversight have made the US a hiding place for dirty money accrued by environmental criminals in the Amazon rainforest, …
Ancient rock carvings revealed by receding Amazon waters amid drought
Human faces and other figures believed to be up to 2,000 years old exposed as Brazil river level hits record lowHuman faces and other figures etched in stone up to 2,000 years ago have been revealed on Amazon riverbanks as a historic drought in the Bra…
Argentina: leftists celebrate after far-right Milei fails to win election victory
Lula and other Latin American leftwingers hail Sergio Massa’s first-placed finish, with election now headed to November runoffLeading Latin American leftists have celebrated the thwarting of Javier Milei’s attempt to claim a first-round victory in Arge…
Portugal’s first KC-390 completes its maiden operational mission
On the afternoon of October 19, at 16:30, the first Portuguese Air Force’s KC-390 landed at the Beja Air Base, marking a historic milestone as it undertook its first operational mission. According to a press release, this transatlantic flight, or…
Drought turns Amazonian capital into climate dystopia
Forest fires leave Manaus with second worst air quality in the world, while low river levels cut off communitiesA withering drought has turned the Amazonian capital of Manaus into a climate dystopia with the second worst air quality in the world and ri…