Vincent Bevins
Monday, October 29, 2012 - 00:00
The big election day prize was won after popular former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and President Dilma Rousseff threw their support behind Haddad.
Monday, October 22, 2012 - 00:00
In the world's largest Catholic country, a group of well-organized evangelical churches is rewriting the rules of politics.
Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 00:00
It all began when a local judge, Jose Henrique Mallman, ran an absent-minded Google search for "renewable energy".
Monday, June 11, 2012 - 00:00
Promised work, the victims are usually taken to remote, unfamiliar areas, where they face harsh conditions they would never have agreed to and have little chance of escape
Friday, June 8, 2012 - 00:00
Promised work, the victims are usually taken to remote, unfamiliar areas, where they face harsh conditions they would never have agreed to and have little chance of escape.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - 00:00
After months of heated discussion, President Dilma Rousseff on Monday presented a final version of the bill that was heavily influenced by the country's powerful agricultural lobby.
Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 00:00
The area around Recife, the capital of Pernambuco, has benefited from huge government and business investments such as the expansion of the port of Suape, a new shipyard and an oil refinery project.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 00:00
What does the case of Wanderson Pereira dos Santos tell us about Brazil? What does it mean that he was killed on his bicycle, struck by the car of the son of Brazil’s richest man?
Monday, February 6, 2012 - 00:00
The razing of the Pinheirinho slum that was home to 8,000 squatters highlights the plight of those who can't afford to live in their own communities.
Friday, January 6, 2012 - 00:00
A truth commission in Brazil will investigate what happened under a military dictatorship in the 1970s when hundreds of people were killed or disappeared.