Rio: from kudos to chaos
In less than three months Rio has passed from the splendour and success of the Olympic and Paralympic Games to a state of public...
Brazil: heroes and rats
As rain-soaked soldiers carried coffin after coffin into the football stadium in the small city of Chapecó, in a procession which seemed as though...
Brazil: the angora cat, the saint and the end of the...
São Paulo 11 Dec 2016. Another turbulent week in Brazilian politics. As Brazil lurches from crisis to crisis, it seems more like a country...
Brazil’s prison massacres – a bloody start to the year
Brazilians began the New Year in the most terrible way, with images of piles of headless, dismembered corpses, the result of a savage massacre...
Brazil: who’s afraid of Lava Jato?
Main image: police family members protest in Vitória. Their placard reads: We've had no wage increase since 2013 - 40% inflation. The coffin is...
Brazil: indigenous lives matter
São Paulo, 15 March. Despairing of finding justice in Brazil, cacique Ladio Veron of the Guarani Kaiowá indigenous people in Mato Grosso do Sul, ...
Brazil: the flesh is weak but the meat is rotten
São Paulo, March 22nd. With their usual fine sense of irony, the Federal Police named their latest operation, launched on Friday 17th, “Carne Fraca”...
Brazil: a book called João
April 11th 2017. In Rio recently ex-military officer and ultra rightwing deputy Jair Bolsanaro was applauded for his racist remarks at the Hebrew club,...
Brazil: Fachin’s list: the Odebrecht earthquake
Sâo Paulo. April 19. The sheer scale and volume of the gigantic bribery operation that has been bankrolling the entire infrastructure of Brazilian politics...
Brazil: Temer teeters as plea bargain revelations unleash chaos
São Paulo, May 22. Few Brazilians were familiar with the name of Joesley Batista, who with his brother, Wesley, owns Brazil’s biggest meat packing...