Brazil, which is hosting the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference this month, wants to show the world it is a leader in safeguarding the planet. Its record tells a more complicated story.
The president’s trade truce with China has lowered U.S. tariffs to a level that could pause a longer-term effort to reduce America’s dependence on Beijing.
Senators opposed the president’s plan to import beef from Argentina and voted three times this week to end his power to enforce sweeping tariffs.
Residents in Rio de Janeiro questioned the methods the authorities used in a large-scale police operation targeting drug gangs that has become the deadliest crackdown in the city’s history.
El número de fallecidos en la operación policial más mortífera de la historia de la ciudad brasileña ascendió a 132 personas, según las autoridades estatales.
The death toll in Rio’s deadliest police operation in history rose to 132 people, the state authorities say, sparking outrage and a reckoning.
La madrugada del martes estalló el tiroteo entre la policía y los miembros de una banda en una región de Río controlada por un grupo criminal conocido como Comando Vermelho.
A handful of Republicans crossed party lines to side with Democrats in the first of several votes this week aimed at challenging the president’s trade war.
The authorities said the deadliest operation in Rio’s history had killed four police officers and at least 60 other people. It was an attack on “narco-terrorists,” the state governor said.
In a memo, the Microsoft co-founder warned against a “doomsday outlook” and appears to have shifted some of his views about climate change.
Investors sent major global indexes higher on optimism that President Trump and China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, could reach a wider agreement this week.
Un cocinero brasileño iba a encargarse de un evento para el príncipe de Gales y 700 invitados. Pero le pidieron que fuera vegano.
He was asked to cater a climate event for Prince William and 700 guests. But for a renowned chef who wanted to showcase the Amazon’s culinary tradition, it was like “asking Iron Maiden to play jazz.”
Salvador, the Afro-Brazilian heartland, is a hub of music, food and tradition.
The president wants to increase the amount of Argentine beef imports, angering cattle country, which is finally profitable after years of struggle.
Developing countries have started taking greater responsibility for their own welfare, leveraging private investment to create economic opportunity.
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.