Naiara Galarraga Gortázar

Government institutions and private companies provide employees the time and resources to see their team during the soccer tournament in Qatar

Far-right president files complaint with the Superior Electoral Tribunal, claiming irregularities with some of the ballots cast in the country’s older voting machines

The president – while not officially conceding – finally gave a brief statement to reporters two days after losing the elections to Lula

Lula da Silva, the leftist former president, will govern Brazil for the third time after securing just under 51% of the vote

The country is bracing for a nail-biting finish to what has been a bitter campaign between two of the country’s most prominent figures

Before becoming president of Brazil in 2018, the incumbent head of state spent 27 years as a congressman – his rise to power did nothing to temper his violent outbursts, distrustful nature or religious fundamentalism

At the age of 77, the first working-class president of Brazil – who took millions of people out of poverty and spent 20 months in jail – is on the cusp of winning a third term in power after Sunday’s elections

The polls point to a technical tie between the two candidates, who are courting undecided voters and seeking to curb abstentionism ahead of a final face-to-face meeting on Friday

As Lula and Bolsonaro go after handfuls of undecided or apathetic voters before the runoff election on October 30, the opposing campaigns are launching vicious attacks at each other

The 59-year-old, who built a children’s entertainment empire in the 1990s, is beloved by tens of millions of Brazilians who grew up watching her shows and listening to her albums

Of the five cities where the leader scored his highest levels of support in the first round of Brazil’s presidential election, three of them are located in the white-majority southern state of Paraná

The vote yielded unexpected wins in key districts, confirmed a conservative majority in Congress and evidenced how polls underestimated Jair Bolsonaro

The ex-president from the Workers’ Party garnered 48% of the vote, while the incumbent right-wing president held strong at 43.5%

The former president is poised to win the first round of the election on Sunday, but it is unclear whether he will be able to avoid a runoff vote against Jair Bolsonaro on October 30

Police officer and congresswoman Katia Sastre, who rose to fame in 2018 after shooting a robber dead, embodies the growing presence of uniformed men and women in politics. More than 1,800 of them are running in the next election

The leading candidate for the governorship of Bahia says that he’s mestizo – mixed-race – drawing attention to the phenomenon of Brazilian politicians changing their race to get elected

In both instances, the child’s mother stopped her from getting an abortion, which is legal in Brazil in cases of rape

The ocean liner ‘Príncipe de Asturias’ sank in 1916, killing at least 445 people without counting all the clandestine passengers. A survivor believed the wreck might have been intentional and tied to undeclared cargo rumored to be gold

The “Man of the Hole” was found dead earlier this month. He was the only remaining member of an isolated indigenous community that was massacred in 1995

The group, which includes billionaire Luciano Hang, discussed the advantages of staging an insurrection if the president loses the October vote against Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is leading in the polls

The Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, a little-known cultural gem founded 185 years ago in Rio de Janeiro, is seeing throngs of new visitors thanks to TikTok and Instagram

Police stormed Complexo do Alemão to break up a gang specializing in cargo theft and bank robberies

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

Brazilian officials made the announcement 10 days after Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira went missing in an area rife with poachers and drug traffickers

A fisherman has been detained after his boat was seen chasing Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira on Sunday as they approached their destination

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?