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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

This dish may seem a bit challenging at first glance, but is guaranteed to impress your guests!

The rights of women and minorities are receding fast since the coup.

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.

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¿Donde estás María?; Strangers

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Tunisian singer Emel talks to Graeme Green about hope, helplessness and the Arab Spring.

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Times are hard. High unemployment, rampant inflation and a collapse in the value of the tugrik, reports Tina Burrett and Christopher Simons.

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