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3 years

Brazilian reporter @leandrochaves narrating his vaccination in real-time like a game-winning goal is fantastic ⚽️👍 #gola ço

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RIP, Dom. He deserves all the tributes he has recieved and will receive. He was a lovely, lively person who cared deeply about the Amazon and about journalism, and he uncovered important stories. And he absolutely loved Brazil.

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Brazil's evolution, by @michaelserra

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The least accurate description of Brazil's capital ever written. 🇧🇷🤣

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O Globo's Sunday edition: Brazil's 10,000 dead, w/ names and descriptions of those whose stories were cut short.

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Brazil was flooded with misinformation about the coronavirus this year, and two students fought it. Fearing legal action or worse, they've left their city behind and are revealing their identities. This is a story about them, and about Brazil in 2020.

Swift backlash for Brazil students targeting misinformation

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Before dawn on Dec. 1, Leonardo de Carvalho Leal prepared to leave his family behind in the Brazilian city of Ponta Grossa, in Parana state.

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#Brazil state assembly candidate running w/ the name ``Arthur I told you so, Mommy.'' This is what happens when social media gives birth to politicians.

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3 years

Imagine trying to explain this vaccination message to someone unfamiliar with Brazil.

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2 years

Gov. of Brazil's federal district has fired the head of his security secretariat, a Bolsonaro supporter. The local police resistance to this uprising appeared *at best* weak and unprepared -- if not complicit.

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2 years

Determinei a exoneração do Secretário de Segurança DF, ao mesmo tempo em que coloquei todo o efetivo das forças de segurança nas ruas, com determinação de prender e punir os responsáveis. Também solicitei apoio do governo federal e coloco o GDF à disposição do mesmo.

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Now every time I see pundits talking in front of bookshelves, I think of this satirical video. The corro's partner is flipping through his Kindle behind him to prove he is the others' intellectual peer.

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3 years

Someone sent me this Simpsons-style drawing of Brazil's Olympic darling, @RayssaLeal , and I must share🥈🛹

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4 years

Bolsonaro today, explaining his poor image abroad: "The global press is leftist." The marxist Financial Times today: "Jair Bolsonaro's populism is leading Brazil to disaster."

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The Girl from Rio 🤝 The Oracle of Omaha @Anitta is Nubank's newest board member, two weeks after @WarrenBuffett 's Berkshire Hathaway made a $500mn investment.

Anitta entra no Conselho de Administração do Nubank, com estratégia do banco de crescer nas classes...

Com fortuna estimada em US$ 100 milhões, cantora também ajudará instituição a criar novos produtos para jovens

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"⚠️GRAVE COLD" warning my friend received on his computer, as the temperature plunges to a bone-chilling 20º C (68º F) above freezing.

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@lesbrains It may now taste, in fact, like wine

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Anitta's new video sets Rio's South Zone of decades past, w/ its full-body swimming suits and coiffed hair, against the skimpy bikinis of the modern-day North Zone's Piscinão de Ramos. Fun portrait of the city's change, set to a remix of "Girl from Ipanema"

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1 year

One of best costumes I saw today at Rio’s Pre-Carnival: Shakira’s Jelly

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3 years

Yesterday in Rio, the sky aflame 🔥

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That last comment of his stuck with me, and I hope for Dom's sake that it echoes far and wide, beyond his life: "The Amazon is much less protected and pristine than most people think it is, and much more threatened than people realize."

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Meanwhile in Brazil... YouTube influencer and Bolsonaro critic @FelipeNeto indicted for corrupting minors; Neto says case is based on slanderous claims from president's supporters. Concerns it's an attempt to suppress speech. 📝 @deboraalvares

Bolsonaro critic, indicted in Brazil, says case is slander

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian digital influencer Felipe Neto has been indicted by Rio de Janeiro’s state police for alleged corruption of minors, prompting concern the critic of President Jair...

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Crypto makes its #Rio Carnaval debut. #bitcoin

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The optimism of Brazilian economists facing up to harsh reality 👇

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Happening now: Brazil's Bolsonaro is arriving in Moscow. Also happening now: Bolsonaro's supporters online are crediting him for Russia pulling troops back from border.🤔

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5 years

PLOT TWIST: Brazilian funk band Bonde do Tigrão put out a statement defending economy minister Guedes. 🐯😸

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2 years

I just want to share some messages I exchanged with Dom a few months back, which I believe he'd be OK with me doing.

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4 years

Brazil has overtaken the U.S. in 7-day average of both deaths and cases.

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Forget Spiderman or Elsa: This Brazilian mom baked a birthday cake for her 1-year-old featuring prominent Covid experts.

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@bruceecurb Seems to be almost inviting a compare/contrast w/ the dicatorship-era banner...

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Brazilian candidate polling 3rd, ⁦⁦ @cirogomes ⁩ , launches presidential run.

Brazilian candidate polling 3rd launches presidential run

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Leftist Brazilian politician Ciro Gomes made his presidential candidacy official at an event in capital of Brasilia on Wednesday, less than three months before the election.

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Newspaper's nightmare: accidentally publishing someone's obit. In this case, Queen Elizabeth. Eek...

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I hardly believed it when I moved to Brazil, but this morning show parrot was a Big Deal. And his puppeteer's passing has prompted an outpouring of emotion. Mine for @APEntertainment #LouroJos é #MaisVoce

In Brazil, a parrot puppeteer’s death stirs the nation

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — In a time of so much loss, it is rare for an individual death to stir a country.

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Brazil's number of Covid-19 cases surpassed U.K. and is now #3 in the world, at 254,000. 🇧🇷🥉

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Brazil's Bolsonaro repeats debunked sexual comments about journalist, @camposmello

Bolsonaro repeats debunked sexual comments about journalist

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has repeated a debunked sexually charged allegation about one of the country's more prominent journalists, drawing fire from press freedom advocates.

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5 years

La vie en rose

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Brazil Supreme Court justice ruled that a story published by right-leaning Crusoé must be taken down. So left-leaning Intercept republished it in full, to take a stand against censorship.

Intercept Brasil

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. @Alexandre de Moraes não quer que você leia essa reportagem. por @TheInterceptBr

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6 years

Our story about openly gay lawmaker who says he's leaving both Congress and Brazil

Gay Brazilian Congressman Resigns, Citing Death Threats

Jean Wyllys, an openly gay Brazilian lawmaker who in the past has clashed with President Jair Bolsonaro, said he will give up his seat, citing death threats and slander targeting him.

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2 years

Dom is a friend and a wonderful person, not to mention one of the most clear-eyed observers of Brazil. Praying for a safe, speedy return for him and Bruno Pereira.

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4 years

Brazil judge rejects hacking accusation against Greenwald

SAO PAULO (AP) — A judge in Brazil’s capital on Thursday dismissed accusations that journalist Glenn Greenwald was involved in hacking phones of officials, following weeks of criticism that his...

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6 years

The moment Bolsonaro told supporters outside his house (via FB) that he'd received a congratulatory call from Trump

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Strong hat showing at UNGA by Peru's president, Pedro Castillo

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With Brazil nearing 500,000 Covid deaths, Bolsonaro and some doctors keep pushing hydroxychloroquine, which the world long ago dismissed, and science is on trial in the Senate. 📝me + @Deboralvares

Brazil still debating dubious virus drug amid 500,000 deaths

The official COVID-19 death toll in Brazil is about to hit 500,000, the second-highest in the world.

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Brazil approved a record number of pesticides this year, as part of Bolsonaro's pledge to the Ag sector. @bruceecurb 's story shows some of the impact

Bees Are Dropping Dead in Brazil and Sending a Message to Humans

Pesticide use in Brazil sparks concern among environmentalists.

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It's that time of year in Rio when the cannonball trees bloom. Bizarro beauty of these Seuss-like weirdos

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@RexChapman Here's our story about him from earlier this year 👇👇

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Applies to Rio dogs and Rio humans.

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4 years

To think: someone in Brazil's health ministry made the decision, or received the order, to make the font sizes bigger for "recovered cases" and smaller for "deaths".

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3 years

Panelaço in Leme, protesting Bolsonaro during his national address.

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These wintry sunsets in Rio...

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I saw a lot of things out of the ordinary today, but this dude out here dispensing free hypnosis was truly bizarre.

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Two top topics on Brazil Twitter beg for Bolsonaro to remain quiet on US attack 👇

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🚨Amazing journalism job alert!🚨 The @AP is hiring a reporter exclusively tasked with covering the Amazon rainforest, to be based in Brazil. There are so many important stories to be told. Come and tell them!

Newsperson, Amazon Basin

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6 years

Officially the longest union name I've encountered in Brazil.

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Brazil, in one day, goes from 4500 cases and 150 deaths, to 5700 cases and 201 deaths. By *FAR* its biggest single-day jump

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5 years

After weeks in Hong Kong and Myanmar, I'm back in Rio and excited to share big news: I'm officially @AP 's Brazil News Director!

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3 years

At least one cop and 24 suspects died of gunshot wounds after one of Rio's deadliest police operations ever, in the Jacarezinho favela. Updates soon to follow w/ reporting from the scene. 📝 @msilvadesousa + @DiarleiR 📷 @sizqui

At least 25 dead during Brazilian police raid in Rio

Brazilian police targeting drug traffickers have raided a slum in Rio de Janeiro and at least one officer and 24 alleged criminals died after being shot.

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5 years

Love this swooping staircase in Itamaraty, Brazil's foreign relations ministry

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4 years

Brazilians often say "Have a good ____" for things you wouldn't expect. Have a good gym, have a good walk, have a good meeting, etc. Today heard someone tell a pregnant woman "Boa gestação." Have a good gestation.🤰👍

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Brazil’s Bolsonaro makes life-or-death coronavirus gamble. My story.

Brazil’s Bolsonaro makes life-or-death coronavirus gamble

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Even as coronavirus cases mount in Latin America’s largest nation, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has staked out the most deliberately dismissive position of any major world...

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Extremely doubtful @RogerWaters authorized this rendition by Bolsonaro's tourism minister... 🙉

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Postcard from Rio... Carnaval is ON. 🥁🎺🎉🥳

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CNN Brasil has fired Alexandre Garcia for - yet again - pushing "early treatment" of Covid, aka hydroxychloroquine, that scientists dismissed long, long ago as ineffective.

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@GretchenTG @davidmackau @ratemyskyperoom , Gretchen deserves an 11/10

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This would be an enormous demonstration in any city. In Chile, this is a pretty big chunk of the entire country's population.

Informaciones Chile

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🔴 AHORA: Cerca de 1 millón de personas se manifiestan en el centro de Santiago en #LaMarchaMasGrandeDeChile #Pi ñeraRenuncia

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My mom, a nurse who came out of retirement to work at a Covid vaccination center, is now fully vaccinated herself 💪💜

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Brazilian volunteers turning out in droves to clean spilled oil from NE beaches is heartwarming on one hand, and heartwrenching on the other.

Limpeza de praias atingidas por óleo no Nordeste depende da ajuda de voluntários - 21/10/2019 -...

Município de Cabo de Santo Agostinho (PE) chegou a pedir ajuda das pessoas para limpar praias

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Brazil's Congress lit up for #Pride tonight

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A1, above the fold, @pennerandre 's shot of São Paulo's Vila Formosa cemetary

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I'm on an island south of Rio, where one must beware the dreaded Palms of Wrath 🌴👿

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Brazil’s police searched the home of Ciro Gomes, a left-wing politician expected to run for president next year, as part of an investigation into corruption regarding World Cup stadium works. He denied all wrongdoing, claimed political persecution.

Brazil police search home of likely presidential candidate

Brazil’s Federal Police have searched the home of Ciro Gomes, a left-wing politician expected to run for president next year, as part of an investigation into corruption regarding works on a World...

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Every once in a while an illustration can take your breath away. This one by @klebersales was front page of newspaper @correio today: "The open veins of a barbarity."

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@samanthapearson Well, you've done the impossible: you united a divided country, in opposition to your tweet.

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One more quotation: "They tried to bury us, but they didn't know we were seeds." 🌱🌱🌱

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5 years

No filters needed in Rio.

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Big day in Brazil today: health regulator just began its deliberations regarding approval of two covid vaccines, AstraZeneca/Oxford and CoronaVac. Vaccination could begin as early as this evening in São Paulo.

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My story about Brazilian pop star @Anitta 's spin on "The Girl from Ipanema", how the song changed over the years as it was translated across borders, and also what has endured. 🎶🎶🎶 #GirlFromRio

'Girl from Ipanema:' Re-imagining a classic for today's Rio

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Chauffeured in a classic Porsche, the Brazilian beauty steps out into 1960s Rio de Janeiro.

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6 years

A day after Bolsonaro told reporters $ was deposited to his wife's account bc he has trouble finding time to go the bank, he goes to the bank and flak sends fotos and a video. What's the PR strategy here?

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The measure united environmental groups, federal prosecutors and celebrities like @Anitta + @giseleofficial in fierce opposition. It expires May 19 if not ratified by Congress, and Bolsonaro has pressured for a vote.

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Brazilian congressman Jean Wyllys announces he's giving up his seat, citing death threats and slander he's faced as an openly-gay advocate for LGBT rights. Says in intvw he needs to stay alive to, someday, advance that cause.

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Hard pass on instant feijoada.

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@ricksenra Tem uma ONG aqui no Rio catando jaca e distribuindo às comunidades pobres, porque é muita comida desperdiciada. IG deles: Mas gera controversia, sendo espécie invasora. Escrevi sobre isso tudo aqui:

Danger or delight? Uphill battle for Brazil's huge jackfruit

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — On the morning of Feb. 10, a cyclist chugged his way up the curves of Rio de Janeiro’s most popular sport cycling road.

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3 years

Just dropping in to remind you it's Friday. 🦜👋

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Papagaio aparece em câmera de monitoramento da BR-116, no Paraná; VÍDEO #g1 #g1pr

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Bolsonaro called her a brat. Time called her Person of the Year.

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. @GretaThunberg is TIME's 2019 Person of the Year #TIMEPOY

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I love this expression in Portuguese, and yday had the pleasure of overhearing someone say it 3 times in a row: "Uma coisa é uma coisa, outra coisa é outra coisa." ("One thing is one thing, another thing is another thing")

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Brazil traffickers armed w/ machine guns attacked a convoy transporting uranium to the nuclear plant. Convoy, which was being escorted by federal highway police, was able to proceed after the shootout, but still... this is like start of a 007 plot!

Traficantes atacam comboio de urânio da Usina Nuclear de Angra dos Reis

Ação criminosa aconteceu no final da manhã desta terça-feira na Rodovia Rio-Santos, na altura do Frade

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15,650 Brazilians died from Covid in the past week, almost double the amount 4 weeks ago. Just getting worse and worse, very quickly.

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Gringo advice: avoid ear, nose and throat problems in Brazil, bc they mean being forced to repeatedly pronounce the word "otorrinolaringolosista" as you seek medical aid. 🤕

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In Brazil, you find plants like this one.

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I'm fairly skeptical of these "nature is healing" Covid stories, but this sea lion in Rio is making me a believer...

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@greengodict Me lembrou disso, que mostra a palmeira lançando esses cocos enquanto a família vai fugindo

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Brazil's electronic voting machine featured on Google's doodle. You feeling lucky? Boa votação!

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Surprise Mother's Day! 🎉💜

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A Brazilian federal court has upheld the suspension of an environmental license for what would be the largest open-pit gold mine in the nation’s Amazon rainforest, Belo Sun. The first story from our new Amazon correspondent, Fabiano Maisonnave.

Brazil court deals blow to massive Amazon gold mine project

A Brazilian federal court has upheld the suspension of an environmental license for what would be the largest open-pit gold mine in the nation’s Amazon rainforest, dealing a blow to the Canada-based...

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I'd normally reject publicizing a patient's medical treatment in detail, but this patient was a doctor among those feeding Brazil's Covid denialism by spreading disinformation. He died of Covid -- but the cause of his death was concealed.

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This firefighter’s joy about rain in Brazil’s pantanal wetlands 👇

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Lula supporters celebrating by belting out Brazil's national anthem on Av. Paulista.

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Dearest Brazil: I will gladly host Zoom workshops on how to build snowmen. My gift to you. 👍⛄️

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Bonecos de neve feitos no Sul do Brasil viralizam e ganham memes: 'Olaf de Taubaté', 'Olaf Chernobyl'...

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Asked why they weren't wearing masks today, after wearing them for days in briefings, Brazil govt. officials didn't venture an answer.

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Mão de alface -- lettuce hands, referring to a failed goalie block -- is a nice Port. expression. Others involving food, w/ literal translations: 1. Chupa essa manga (suck that mango) 2. Descasca esse abacaxi (peel that pineapple) 3. Resolva esse pepino (resolve that cucumber)

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