Even as the armed forces and police broke up the 8 January insurrection in Brasilia, carting more than 1,000 rioters off to prison, the Brazilian rumour mills spun into high gear.
Bolsonaro’s administration is largely responsible for all of this chaos, which has killed 270,000 Brazilians.
It was once fashionable to describe Brazil as the country of the future.
Discrimination and violence against Brazil’s LGBTQ communities are widespread, yet often underreported
Many Brazilians were worried by the torrent of disinformation on social networks during this year’s bitterly contested U.S. presidential elections
The world’s longest Zoom call is underway at the United Nations General Assembly today.
The only surprise about Jair Bolsonaro’s diagnosis for COVID-19 was that it took him so long to test positive.
Brazil is the world’s murder capital. No other country even comes close. That is why it was big news when the country’s minister of justice recently announced that homicide rates fell by over 20 percent in 2019 compared to the same period last year.
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