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By Luciana Magalhaes SAO PAULO, June 18 (Reuters) - Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro is banking on a hard-line crackdown on ...

BRASILIA, July 22 (Reuters) - Protection of Brazil's Indigenous communities from violence by land grabbers and ranchers was "insufficient" in 2023, according to a report, opens new tab published on ...

Gunmen in a car opened fire in November at São Paulo's airport and killed a cryptocurrency entrepreneur in a daytime hit that was one of Brazil's most shocking recent crimes. Police at the scene ...

In December 2007, the then Brazilian government passed a law to curb the illegal destruction of the rainforest. A study by researchers from the Insper Research Institute in São Paulo and the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - International investors shrugged off the wave of gang violence which tore through beach-front Rio de Janeiro in December, but they could think again if its broader implications hurt ...

Brazil’s far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro is “fomenting violence” and is a danger to democracy, his leftist rival Fernando Haddad told AFP on Saturday. Haddad, trailing in the polls ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Criminal gangs are operating in over a third of municipalities in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest driving a boom in violence, according to a report published Wednesday by a prominent ...