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Articles about Brazil, ordered by date. 
The university of good living
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.
Our time will return
The lines painted on his skin lead to the heartlands of identity, discovers Dan Baron Cohen.
Democracy in prison
Letter from Marabá: Anxiety, perplexity and indignation over Brazil’s political process as news of former president Lula’s sentencing breaks. Dan Baron Cohen listens to how it goes down in Cabelo Seco.
Storms and fury
Violent weather presages human violence. Dan Baron Cohen writes from a community and country on high alert.
Letter from Marabá: Toxic promises
Why does ‘accelerated development’ spell disaster in the Brazilian Amazon? Dan Baron Cohen begins his column from the Afro-indigenous community of Cabalo Seco.
Mercury rising
Update on a large-scale dam in the AmazonTom Lawson.
Rivers of Meeting
In Brazil, young indigenous women are reconnecting with their African roots and finding ways to intervene in the violence that targets their community.
'A policy of extermination'
Brazil promotes the myth of a harmonious ‘racial democracy’ abroad, but the killings of black people resemble state-sponsored genocide, writes Vanessa Martina Silva.
‘We have a lot to teach the city’
What does ‘the state’ mean to you if you are poor or black or both? Vanessa Baird reports on life down-and-out in post-coup São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro
Marcela’s recipe: How to make a soft coup
This dish may seem a bit challenging at first glance, but is guaranteed to impress your guests!
Grand land theft
Vanessa Baird writes on how agribusiness has mounted a coup against rural Brazilians.
What is Brazil’s ‘Operation Car Wash’?
Is Operation Car Wash the world’s biggest corruption scandal? By Vanessa Baird
Brazil's soft coup hardens
Vanessa Baird sets out to see how dictatorship is being rebranded in Latin America’s most populous nation.
A Marvel-ous transformation
A mash-up of the pop aesthetic of US comics and the religious myths of Africa has proved tremendously popular.
Worldbeaters: Michel Temer
Brazil’s oldest president – and architect of his predecessor’s downfall – is put under the spotlight.
Both hands on the spotlight for Rio’s favelas
A small NGO is trying to link local communities and international networks to help Rio’s worse-off neighbourhoods, Ann Deslandes reports.
Dam fine victory in Brazil
How the Mundukuru people won their battle to cancel plans for a massive new dam in the Amazon.
Brazil human rights defender found drowned in dam
The bodies of murdered women should not have to be the catalyst for responsible development, writes Erin Kilbride.
Impeachment of Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff is a setback for the whole country
Increased political polarization has fueled the growth of the far right wing and repression of social movements, writes Sarah Roure.
Country profile: Brazil
Jan Rocha on the challenges and paradoxes in one of the world's most unequal countries.
Staying alive
Visibility offers no protection for trans people in Brazil. Amanda Palha analyses the roots of violence and exclusion faced by her community – and its fight to stay alive.
Meet the protest profiteers
There’s money to be made in crowd ‘control’, as Anna Feigenbaum discovers.
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