She resigned after photos emerged from her 50th birthday that critics saw as allusion to race relations in the colonial ear, when there was slavery in Brazil.
She resigned after photos emerged from her 50th birthday that critics saw as allusion to race relations in the colonial era, when there was slavery in Brazil.
Donata Meirelles resigned after photos emerged from her 50th birthday that critics saw as allusion to race relations in the colonial era, when slavery was legal in Brazil.
The employees held included two executive directors of the company, which owns the mining complex where a torrent of mud killed at least 166 people.
The employees held included two executive directors of the company, which owns the mining complex where a torrent of mud killed at least 166 people.
Researchers matched up a jigsaw puzzle of ice that once flowed between two landmasses now separated by an ocean.
We mapped where more than 100,000 Brazilians live downhill from mining dams built like the one in Brumadinho that collapsed last month. Here’s where we estimate people may be at risk.
That the dam fell was a tragedy. It should not have been a surprise.
A mining dam collapsed and buried more than 150 people. Now Brazil is casting an anxious eye on dozens of dams like it.
The blaze broke out in the early morning at a training center in Rio de Janeiro for teenage players at Flamengo, one of the most famous clubs.
While this was an unusually powerful storm, the damage and death that followed were not rare for Rio de Janeiro, whose poor, hillside neighborhoods are usually the hardest hit.
And you thought it was chilly in your living room? These athletes competed in an ultramarathon in Minnesota during last week’s misery.
The former president was sentenced to nearly 13 more years in prison, making it unlikely that a man once considered the lion of Latin America’s left could recover his political clout.
Footage released a week after the tragedy showed how the dam released 2.5 billion gallons of brown sludge that buried people, cars and buildings in seconds.
The case, involving hundreds of thousands of dollars moving in and out of Flávio Bolsonaro’s account, has tarnished his father’s first weeks in office.
The mining industry puts lives at risk with shoddy maintenance of dams built to contain mining waste.
Prosecutors have charged Brazilian investors who backed what was once known as the Trump Hotel Rio de Janeiro with corruption and money laundering. The Trump Organization quit the project in 2016.
Those arrested were directly involved in and responsible for the mining enterprise and its licensing, as well as in recent testing that found the dam to be stable.
Two days after a dam break left at least 58 dead, residents of Brumadinho are forced to evacuate again, while experts warn that the regulatory system is flawed.
Before and after images show the damage caused by the collapse of a mining dam in Brumadinho, Brazil. At least 58 are dead and hundreds are still missing.
At least 34 people have been killed, but officials feared that many more will be found as rescue teams dig through feet of mud.
A dam owned by the mining giant Vale S.A. ruptured in the town of Brumadinho, in southeastern Brazil, flooding homes and cars in sludge, and leaving scores missing, the authorities said.
The legislator, Jean Wyllys, a fierce advocate for gay rights, called Brazil’s new far-right leader, Jair Bolsonaro, “a president who always vilified me, who always openly insulted me.”
Just three weeks into his term, Jair Bolsonaro, who rode to power by denouncing corruption and elitist privilege, is fending off charges that his administration is engaging in more of the same.
Carnaval is right around the corner in this energetic city, where traditions — culinary, musical, literary and more — reflect a deep Afro-Brazilian heritage.