Naiara Galarraga Gortázar

The leftist president and the right-wing senator, who is the eldest child of the imprisoned ex-president, face enormous opposition seven months before the vote

Brazil’s Supreme Court has reached a verdict on the most significant political killing of the decade, nearly eight years after the crime

The Penal Code, which considers sex with minors under 14 a crime, fails to eradicate the deeply rooted practice of child marriage

President Lula looks to put an end to the 6x1 schedule, and Congress is debating over how much the 44-hour work week will be cut

Brazil is home to the largest community of descendants of Japanese people abroad 

The institutions that obtained the worst scores in a new national examination are private or municipally-run, and some charge very high tuition fees

The South American country, which has huge reserves of graphite, niobium and nickel, maintains contacts with Washington and Brussels and wants to go beyond extraction

The city where the event took place, a ufology conference, and a documentary celebrate the alleged encounter in 1996 with the country’s most famous extraterrestrial

The former president of Brazil will be moved from the police station where he is being held to a larger cell in the military wing of the Papuda penitentiary complex

Personal interviews indicate that two-thirds would leave the drug trade if they had a legal alternative

The clan’s eldest son is presenting himself as a moderate version of his father, while the traditional right is calling for a candidate who is not from the family

Climate change, growing demand and the transformation of coffee into a commodity for speculation on the New York Stock Exchange have increased the value and the uncertainty around one of the most desirable products on the planet

A series of brutally cruel cases is forcing society to confront the deadliest side of misogyny, which kills four women every day

A study compared civil service salary caps in 11 countries as Congress debates public administration reform in a nation with particularly high social inequality

One of the two suspects has been arrested after taking artworks that were part of an art book titled ‘Jazz,’ and which had already been stolen in the past

President Lula da Silva presents the $38 billion project as he tries to strike a delicate balance between Beijing and Washington, his largest trade partners

The native people, who fear the social and environmental impact of the project, accuse the company of not consulting them about installing multi-billion dollar infrastructure on their traditional lands

The Brazilian city that hosted the climate summit illustrates the challenges faced by Global South cities in adapting to the effects of global warming

A conservative network that originated in Brazil and spread through Argentina has reached Mexico, acting as a political weapon

Despite the number of inmates serving time at home, the country’s penitentiaries remain overcrowded

Rio’s governor echoes Trump’s rhetoric on ‘narco-terrorists’ and places the issue at the center of 2026 presidential campaign

The Rio de Janeiro gang, the target of a bloody police operation, was born in prison almost half a century ago

Residents found more than 70 bodies following the previous day’s raid aimed at halting the spread of organized crime

Authorities were targeting Comando Vermelho, which has become Brazil’s second most powerful criminal organization

Governor Castro is considering vetoing the measure, which was in effect in the 1990s and is being reintroduced just as police fatality rates have fallen

The Brazilian Supreme Court reached a majority verdict to convict high-ranking military officers for attempting to prevent the transfer of power to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva after losing the 2022 election