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Last year, a hacker gave Glenn Greenwald a trove of damning messages between Brazil’s leaders. Some suspected the Russians. The truth was far less boring.
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Last year, a hacker gave Glenn Greenwald a trove of damning messages between Brazil’s leaders. Some suspected the Russians. The truth was far less boring.
Darren Loucaides Wired Nov 2020 40min Permalink
Jane de Oliveira set out to protect the world’s largest rain forest from the corporate interests that are burning it to the ground. Then the armed men showed up.
Jesse Hyde Vanity Fair Mar 2020 20min Permalink
Rio de Janeiro drug gangs are embracing evangelical Christianity.
Alex Cuadros Harper's Jan 2020 30min Permalink
Scientists in Brazil are trying to save the giant anteater from a growing threat: roads.
Ben Goldfarb The Atlantic Nov 2019 20min Permalink
Indigenous people and illegal miners are engaged in a fight that may help decide the future of the planet.
Jon Lee Anderson New Yorker Nov 2019 35min Permalink
On the front lines of Bolsonaro’s war on the Amazon.
Alexander Zaitchik The Intercept Jul 2019 30min Permalink
Why carbon credits for forest preservation may be worse than nothing.
Lisa Song ProPublica May 2019 25min Permalink
A leftist journalist’s bruising crusade against establishment Democrats—and their Russia obsession.
Ian Parker New Yorker Aug 2018 50min Permalink
At Inhotim, Bernardo Paz commissioned the Jurassic Park of contemporary art. Then the Brazilian government started investigating him.
Alex Cuadros Bloomberg Jun 2018 20min Permalink
Traveling the highway that could make Brazil an economic powerhouse — at the expense of the Amazon.
Stephanie Nolen The Globe and Mail Jan 2018 45min Permalink
What the 2016 Summer Games left behind in Rio.
Wayne Drehs, Mariana Lajolo ESPN Aug 2017 15min Permalink
Meet the giant green rock that seduces and destroys.
Elizabeth Weil Wired Mar 2017 25min Permalink
A young Brazilian couple from “an impoverished northeastern city that’s been described as ground zero of the Zika epidemic” struggle to care for their daughter.
Alex Ronan New York Dec 2016 10min Permalink
Tropicália was a movement that lasted just short of a year, spanning from Hélio Oiticica’s 1967 art installation of the same name, wherein viewers walked along a tropical sand path only to come face-to-face with a television set, to the debut of a TV show, wherein its constituents buried the movement on-air. But Tropicália’s influence was vast.
Brazilian businessman Zero Freitas has amassed the world’s largest collection of records, the majority of which have never been digitized.
Dominik Bartmanski The Vinyl Factory Aug 2016 15min Permalink
In the throes of an epidemic, researchers investigate how to inoculate against the disease.
Siddhartha Mukherjee New Yorker Aug 2016 20min Permalink
Colossal corruption. Political chaos. The worst recession in its history. How a once-booming nation fell.
Franklin Foer Slate Aug 2016 25min Permalink
How PCC, once an inmate soccer team and now Brazil’s most notorious prison gang, coordinated seven days of riots throughout São Paulo using mobile phones.
William Langewiesche Vanity Fair Apr 2007 40min Permalink
How three generations of a Brazilian family evangelized for and fought over the sport of Gracie jiu-jitsu as it moved from the Amazon to Hollywood to the UFC.
David Samuels Grantland Aug 2015 1h5min Permalink
How an Italian businessman facing fraud charges and a Brazilian politician turned a billion dollar project to build the high speed Rio-São Paulo rail line into a farce.
Leandro Demori Medium Aug 2015 30min Permalink
On the kids who are spiritual leaders before the age of ten.
Samantha M. Shapiro New York Times Magazine Jun 2015 15min Permalink
In Goiânia, a city of 1.3 million in Brazil’s agricultural heartland, one in twenty homeless residents have been murdered in the last two years.
Matt Sandy Al Jazeera Oct 2014 15min Permalink
In the late 1960s, a German named Günther Hauck disappeared in Brazil. When he emerged, he was calling himself Tatunca Nara and claimed to be the chief of the Ugha Mongulala, an previously unknown Indian tribe. Since then he has lived in the Amazon, his legend growing. Jacques Cousteau hired him as a guide. An Indiana Jones movie was based on his stories. And three people who made pilgrimages to see him never came home.
Alexander Smoltczyk Der Spiegel Jul 2014 Permalink
Behind the doors of Centaurus, Rio’s most infamous brothel.
Amos Barshad Rolling Stone Jun 2014 25min Permalink
“Someone has sliced open soccer’s hourglass, and the sand has come pouring out on to the streets.”
Supriya Nair Roads & Kingdoms May 2014 Permalink