Regions / Latin America / Brazil

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.

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.

Violent weather presages human violence. Dan Baron Cohen writes from a community and country on high alert.

Why does ‘accelerated development’ spell disaster in the Brazilian Amazon? Dan Baron Cohen begins his column from the Afro-indigenous community of Cabalo Seco.

Update on a large-scale dam in the AmazonTom Lawson.

In Brazil, young indigenous women are reconnecting with their African roots and finding ways to intervene in the violence that targets their community.

Brazil promotes the myth of a harmonious ‘racial democracy’ abroad, but the killings of black people resemble state-sponsored genocide, writes Vanessa Martina Silva.

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

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Vanessa Baird writes on how agribusiness has mounted a coup against rural Brazilians.

Is Operation Car Wash the world’s biggest corruption scandal? By Vanessa Baird

Vanessa Baird sets out to see how dictatorship is being rebranded in Latin America’s most populous nation.

A mash-up of the pop aesthetic of US comics and the religious myths of Africa has proved tremendously popular.

Brazil’s oldest president – and architect of his predecessor’s downfall – is put under the spotlight.

A small NGO is trying to link local communities and international networks to help Rio’s worse-off neighbourhoods, Ann Deslandes reports.

How the Mundukuru people won their battle to cancel plans for a massive new dam in the Amazon.

The bodies of murdered women should not have to be the catalyst for responsible development, writes Erin Kilbride.

Increased political polarization has fueled the growth of the far right wing and repression of social movements, writes Sarah Roure.

Jan Rocha on the challenges and paradoxes in one of the world's most unequal countries.

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.

Good news on fracking, FARC and femicide.