For years, Russia used Brazil as a launchpad for its most elite intelligence officers, known as illegals. They started businesses, made friends and had love affairs — events that, over many years, became the building blocks of entirely new identities. Jane Bradley and Michael Schwirtz, investigative reporters for The New York Times, discuss one case.
A forensic analysis of birth certificates used by deep-cover operatives suggests a tantalizing possibility.
Los servicios de inteligencia rusos hicieron de Brasil un semillero de agentes encubiertos. Un equipo de agentes federales del país sudamericano ha estado desmantelándolo silenciosamente.
A inteligência russa transformou o Brasil em uma linha de montagem de espiões. Mas policiais federais brasileiros trabalham, discretamente, para desmontá-la.
The messages offer a glimpse at life deep undercover. Our correspondents break down four revealing exchanges.
Russia’s intelligence services turned Brazil into an assembly line for deep-cover operatives. A team of federal agents from the South American country has been quietly dismantling it.
El líder chino Xi Jinping sugiere ampliar la colaboración con América Latina en “áreas emergentes”, como la energía limpia, las telecomunicaciones y la inteligencia artificial.
China’s leader Xi Jinping suggests expanding trade ties beyond buying commodities, as he continues to rally nations in the face of Trump’s tariffs.
El presidente de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, visitará Pekín esta semana, y Xi Jinping de China también se reunirá con altos funcionarios de otras naciones latinoamericanas y caribeñas para reforzar sus lazos.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil is visiting Beijing this week, and China’s Xi Jinping will also meet top officials from other Latin American and Caribbean nations to emphasize their ties.
Los estadounidenses consumen cantidades récord de res brasileña. Ahora, los aranceles y las guerras comerciales podrían hacer subir los precios en EE. UU. y enviar más carne a China.
Americans are eating record amounts of Brazilian beef. Now, tariffs and trade wars could push up U.S. prices and send more of it to China.
That the new pontiff’s ancestry can be partially traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture in New Orleans has brought joy to some Catholics.
We asked six horticultural experts to debate and ultimately choose the places that’ve changed the way we look at — and think about — plants.
Her free concert on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach was not disrupted. The police said a group had planned to attack it with improvised explosives.
Her father had lived in the United States for decades. He was sent back to Brazil as part of President Trump’s deportation operation.
Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas received a blessing from Pope Francis when she turned 110. She would have turned 117 in a few weeks.
Un grupo de vigilancia solicitó al gobierno de Trump que bloqueara las importaciones de café que, según afirma, se producen con trabajo forzoso similar a la esclavitud moderna.
Two legal actions seeking U.S. government intervention say that some of the coffee bought by major American retailers is harvested in conditions that amount to slavery.
New additions to Adriana Varejão’s acclaimed “Plate” series are showing at the Hispanic Society Museum and Library, in her first solo museum exhibit in New York.
La investigación sugiere que el expresidente de Brasil obtuvo la idea de falsificar su cartilla de vacunación para viajar a Estados Unidos de su ayudante Mauro Cid.
The federal police accused the former president of falsifying his Covid-19 vaccination records.
Amid an unhinged far-right presidency and a devastating pandemic, it was a lifeline.
Em meio a uma tresloucada presidência de extrema direita e uma pandemia devastadora, foi uma tábua de salvação.
The authorities arrested a close aide of former President Jair Bolsonaro on charges that he forged vaccine records, possibly to help Mr. Bolsonaro enter the United States.
The pileup has left visitors from places like Brazil, Colombia, India and Mexico waiting months, even a year or more, to visit family or do business in America.
A comunidade faz uma grande diferença em tempos de pandemia.
Las autoridades deben aprender a ganarse la confianza de las comunidades, que sin su apoyo han tenido que coordinarse para sobrevivir.
Community goes a long way in pandemics.
Also, Brazilians storm government offices and the Times investigates a 2021 Kabul airstrike.
Algunos bebés que nacieron con las devastadoras consecuencias de la enfermedad transmitida por mosquitos ya tienen 7 años, pero la covid ha acaparado la atención del mundo.
Algunos bebés que nacieron con las devastadoras consecuencias de la enfermedad transmitida por mosquitos ya tienen 7 años, pero la covid ha acaparado la atención del mundo.
Some babies born with devastating birth defects from the mosquito-borne illness are 7 now, but Covid turned the world’s attention away.
Pandemic lockdowns, misinformation campaigns, conflicts, climate crises and other problems diverted resources and contributed to the largest backslide in routine immunization in 30 years.