Regions / Latin America / Brazil

Husna Ara reports on a social swindle in Brazil.

Leonardo Sakamoto on hideous wealth – and poverty. 

Lula is back in the game. After a court annulled all the sentences against him, Brazil’s ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is back in the running for the top job, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

While women in Argentina have won the right to abortion, in Brazil even child survivors of rape may be forced to give birth, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

Report on the exploitation of the Amazon by Beatriz Miranda.

Lazinho and Lucas di Fiori of Brazil’s famous Banda Olodum talk to Alessio Perrone about 40 years of drumming up change.

Leonardo Sakomoto tackles a topic close to his heart: modern-day slavery.

With Trump’s defeat, Bolsonaro loses his imaginary friend. Bolsonaro’s desperate pledges to Trumpism have not paid off, argues Leonardo Sakamoto. 

Violence in Rio de Janeiro. Report from Brazil by Beatriz Miranda.

Report from northern Brazil by Matthew Ponsford.

Where the heroes are, by Leonardo Sakamoto.

Anne-Marie Broudehoux punctures the bombastic narrative of civic pride and prosperity that accompanies sporting mega-events to reveal how they actually remake the city upon the backs of the poor.

Will pensions unite the Left against Bolsonaro?

A shop in Brazil has achieved a win for racial diversity by only selling black dolls.

Jair Bolsonaro may be in power, but the Sateré indigenous people are not taking his hostility sitting down. Sue Branford reports from the Brazilian Amazon.

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

Richard Swift profiles the extreme far-right ex-army officer due to become Brazil's president in the new year.

Spending some time away from Marabá, Dan Baron Cohen discovers unexpected solidarity with the Amazon in a country mired in violence and despair.

Joining his neighbours one evening, Dan Baron Cohen finds himself immersed in a spontaneous conversation about culture, justice and sustainability that would be rare inside the halls of academe.

The lines painted on his skin lead to the heartlands of identity, discovers Dan Baron Cohen.