Brazilian democracy has spent the past three years in a near-permanent state of tension – a full-body clench against an ex-president who refused to accept defeat. On Saturday morning, those muscles ti...

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We look at the parallels between former President Jair Bolsonaro and Trump, and what the U.S. can learn from Brazil’s effort to hold its leaders accountable and defend its democracy.

Latin America’s largest nation is shaping up as a test case on how to defy President Trump.

Estrellazul Corral joined protests outside the Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center every day this weekend to demand justice for the dozens of migrants detained by armed ICE agents in armored veh...

Perched high atop Corcovado Mountain, the Cristo Redentor, as Brazilians call it, is a postcard not only for the city of Rio de Janeiro but for the entire country. But now, its management and future a...

The PCC is taking over illegal gold mining in the Amazon and corrupting Indigenous cultures in a spiral of violence in some of Brazil’s most remote regions.

After meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other top Canadian officials, Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, threatened to cut off energy to parts of the United States if President-elect Dona...

The incoming administration said it would not rely on outside groups to carry out its plan to deport millions of immigrants, but militias have a long record of inserting themselves into patrolling the...

A mysterious disease has killed dozens of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, local authorities have said. The illness is believed to have killed between 67 and 143 people, in the Panzi healt...

Federal police accused Bolsonaro of “full knowledge” of a 2022 plot to kill his successor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and overturn the results of the presidential election.