
Walter Salles, the filmmaker (and billionaire) who won Brazil’s first-ever Oscar
The director of ‘I’m Still Here,’ heir to the founder of the largest bank in Brazil, boasts a distinguished career, numerous film awards, and a remarkable fortune

The director of ‘I’m Still Here,’ heir to the founder of the largest bank in Brazil, boasts a distinguished career, numerous film awards, and a remarkable fortune

The imposition of a 25% tax endangers the USMCA and harms Brazil, the main economic power in Latin America

Claudia Sheinbaum has stayed out of the conflict between the U.S. president and Gustavo Petro and appeals to López Obrador’s learning to avoid a direct clash; Lula resorts to a diplomatic path, but makes his anger at the conditions of deportation flights clear

Three million viewers have watched the film, whose lead actress Fernanda Torres won the Golden Globe as Brazil marked the anniversary of the 2023 coup attempt

In late December inspectors rescued 163 Chinese workers from the construction site of a plant owned by the electric car manufacturer that has come to symbolize Beijing’s growing influence in the South American country

The Brazilian president is doing well and being monitored in the ICU of a São Paulo hospital after the operation

A US judge has authorized the repatriation of the 837 lb gem, valued at hundreds of millions of dollars

Investigators maintain that the former president’s plan failed because the heads of the Army and Air Force refused to support him

French leader Macron and Germany’s Scholz regretted the lukewarm wording of the final declaration regarding Ukraine, while the host Lula urged members to do more about climate goals

The final declaration of the Rio summit also includes a timid statement on the war in Ukraine

The G20 summit that opens on Monday in Rio de Janeiro is the first test of the new climate generated by the radical change of course expected to take place under the Republican president-elect
Venezuela’s president traveled to Kazan in search of legitimacy, but returns without joining the bloc of countries aligned against the West and amid a diplomatic war with Brazil that further complicates his role in the international community

President Maduro considers the Brazilian veto ‘an aggression and a hostile gesture’ but the country is reacting to Maduro’s failure to keep his promise to release electoral records

Health authorities in Rio de Janeiro are reviewing samples from 288 donors after discovering that two HIV-positive people were declared fit to be organ donors

The president has announced extra funding to fight the 200,000 wildfire outbreaks that are engulfing 60% of the country in smoke

The South American country is hosting troops from the two rival superpowers in what is yet another sign of the country’s ambition to play a bigger role on the global stage

A forestry engineer tells of researchers’ foray into the jungle to inventory the flora and fauna living near the 70-meter tall giants

For a third time, police are calling for a 24-year-old businessman who killed an Uber driver while going at 93mph to be remanded in custody. He had earlier had his license revoked for reckless driving

The soccer player, who died in 2011, was one of the protagonists of the Diretas Já campaign 40 years ago to restore democracy after the dictatorship

The Federal Police were able to determine the victims’ origin thanks to their documentation and belongings, and are now trying to identify the bodies

The promising results have followed the introduction of laboratory-bred insects into the environment. This has encouraged other municipalities to replicate this method, which was discovered in Australia and has since been used in 14 countries

The unprecedented step coincides with the 60th anniversary of the coup d’état that gave rise to a military regime responsible for the deaths of over 8,300 natives

Two corrupt politicians and a police commissioner from Rio de Janeiro are arrested as the masterminds of the 2018 crime

Sixty years have passed since the 1964 military coup, an event that current President Lula would rather not mark with any ceremony so as not to further strain his relationship with the military

Keila Simpson presides over ANTRA, the association that prepares the annual report on the murder of trans people in Brazil… the world’s deadliest country for this community

The EU, the United States and even leftist governments from Brazil and Colombia reacted negatively to difficulties placed in the way of the opposition to register candidates for the July 28 election

Three military police officers from Bahia are on trial for allegedly killing three young people in cold blood, planting weapons on them and altering the crime scene during the 2022 Carnival