Brazil is not just a country. It is a feeling. A rhythm. A slow Saturday afternoon with a steaming pot on the stove, drums echoing through a neighborhood, and children practicing kicks on a dusty ...

Publicity poster for Brazil’s Semana Nacional da Vida – Week of Life – in 2025. Image courtesy of the Brazilian National Bishops’ Conference. Listen SÃO PAULO – Brazilian Catholics concluded a week of ...

Home for the busy man about Brazil these days is where he unfastens his seat belt. In an ordinary, mill-of-the-runway week, one Cabinet minister spends Monday and Tuesday in the new capital of ...

Carolina Maria de Jesus, a tall Negro woman with three illegitimate children, each by a different man, lived in a teeming favela (slum) in São Paulo. At dawn she queued up for water at a public spigot ...

Erick Massoto is a Brazilian writer who's always loved film and TV and loves finding connections between them. That's why he supports double features, especially if they are of a modern film paired ...

Gabriela Peña fled hunger, widespread shortages and a political crackdown in her native Venezuela, and sought safety over the border in Roraima, Brazil. She now had access to food and medicines in the ...