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Articles about Brazil, ordered by date. 
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.
'Everybody preferred children'
Combating child prostitution in Brazil is more urgent than ever – especially with the expected influx of foreign tourists for the 2014 World Cup, writes Olivia Crellin.
The boys in Brazil's favelas who shun violence
Gender activist Gary Barker sees young men who respect woman and are connected fathers.
We are millions
The MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra – Brazil’s landless people’s movement) – has been described as the world’s most dynamic social movement. Gibby Zobel joins in its 25th anniversary celebrations and explains why its existence is more important than ever.
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