After 11 days marked by a sluggish official search effort, an international outcry, and offensive statements by Brazil’s president, the bodies of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira have been found
More than a hundred indigenous communities that shun contact with white people in the Brazilian Amazon are faced with the growing danger of poachers, missionaries, drug traffickers and loggers, not to mention the coronavirus and President Bolsonaro. How should we protect this anthropological treasure?
‘She does not recognize herself as a slave, nor do they see themselves as enslavers,’ says the labor inspector who rescued the 85-year-old domestic worker in Rio de Janeiro. Her case reflects the legacy of three centuries of buying and selling Africans
Doctors in many countries on the continent have spent the pandemic writing prescriptions for the antiparasitic drug to fight Covid-19, despite widespread doubts in the scientific community over its use
Almost two decades have passed since the striking image shone a light on the divide between the rich and the poor. EL PAÍS speaks to its photographer about why such scenes are still common in the country
Fearing bans from Facebook and Twitter, the Brazilian president is using the more permissive social media platform to converse with his support base ahead of the October election
Traveling nearly 900 kilometers through one the best-preserved natural areas in Brazil reveals how deforestation is spreading. President Jair Bolsonaro would like to pave the road entirely, but at what environmental cost?
The majority of internees at Hospital Colônia were not insane but “social undesirables.” Now a museum, the site of former atrocities is also a therapeutic residence for mentally ill patients
For almost three years, Brazil’s president has chipped away at the social contract that has held the country together for 36 years as a democratic state. Following the cue of other far-right movements, this is how he wrote his very own authoritarian rules of the game
The fashionable health food grows in villages like Punã in Brazil, where incentives are in place to prevent deforestation and add value to local produce
More than half of rape victims in the country were under the age of 13, according to the Brazilian Forum for Public Safety, with four such assaults taking place every hour
The elder Aruká, who died last week in a hospital in the upper Amazon River basin, leaves behind three daughters who are now the only survivors of a group that counted on thousands of members just three centuries ago
Squel Jorgea from the Mangueira samba school talks to EL PAÍS about the impact the cancellation of the famous event due to the coronavirus has had on the country, particularly Rio de Janeiro
Madalena Gordiano was just eight years old when she began working for a wealthy family without pay or holidays – an extreme example of racism that reflects the legacy of centuries of slavery in Brazil
The former Brazilian president talked to EL PAÍS about his future plans in one of the first interviews he has granted following his release by the Supreme Court
EL PAÍS has had access to a photograph of the drug-filled suitcase that was intercepted in Spain as Jair Bolsonaro’s support aircraft traveled to the Group of 20 summit in Japan