Simon Romero
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - 00:00
Placing women in such commanding positions is a priority of President Dilma Rousseff, the first woman to lead Brazil.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 - 00:00
The leaders' eyes rarely met, and Ms. Rousseff rarely looked at Mr. Obama as he spoke.
Monday, April 2, 2012 - 00:00
Two Brazils also met head-on: one in which a small elite live with almost unfathomable wealth, and another in which millions eke out an existence on the margins of that abundance.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 00:00
The Chaco thorn forest, a domain with 118-degree temperatures so forbidding that Paraguayans call it their "green hell," covers an expanse about the size of Poland.
Monday, March 19, 2012 - 00:00
Pointing to the example of BP's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, environmental officials here say that stiff penalties are needed against Chevron to press it and other companies to adopt strict procedures for preventing and dealing with spills.
Monday, March 5, 2012 - 00:00
Some of the strengths that have enabled Brazil's democratic rise as a regional power - the vigorous expansion of its middle class, the independence of its news media and the growing expectations of its populace - are bedeviling the preparations.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - 00:00
Barred from legally finding work in Brazil, some Haitians have ended up working the illegal gold mines of the Peruvian Amazon.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 00:00
The image of a city on the mend has been undermined by the actions of its own security forces, particularly the spreading militias composed largely of active-duty and retired police officers, prison guards and soldiers
Monday, January 9, 2012 - 00:00
Gambling everything, thousands of Haitians have made their way across the Americas to reach small towns in the Brazilian Amazon over the past year in a desperate search for work, including a surge of hundreds arriving in recent days amid fears that Brazil
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 - 00:00
Wildfires swept through unseasonably hot, dry parts of southern Chile on Monday, as firefighters struggled to extinguish the blazes and as the government of Sebastian Pinera, Chile's beleaguered billionaire president, defended its response.