Think your credit card rate is high? Some in Brazil pay 455 percent.
A new crop of Silicon Valley-backed digital banks has promised financial inclusion for Brazil’s poor. The effort has left some borrowers worse off than before.
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They Tried to Rally South America Behind Ukraine. They Nearly Got Killed.
Héctor Abad Faciolince grew up in what had been one of the most violent cities on earth. Since Colombia won its independence more than 200 years ago, it has weathered political unrest, military crackdowns and violent drug cartels.
His own father, who had accused the military of sponsoring death squads, was assassinated in 1987 by paramilitary forces that had turned his hometown, Medellín, into a war zone.
But his brush with death came half a world away.
At the end of a trip last month that he
His own father, who had accused the military of sponsoring death squads, was assassinated in 1987 by paramilitary forces that had turned his hometown, Medellín, into a war zone.
But his brush with death came half a world away.
At the end of a trip last month that he
A Ukrainian fencer is disqualified after refusing to shake hands with a Russian opponent.
Olga Kharlan, left, of Ukraine, refused to shake the hand of Anna Smirnova, of Russia, after their Fencing World Championship bout in Milan on Thursday. Ms. Kharlan’s gesture resulted in her disqualification from the tournament.
Olga Kharlan, a four-time Olympic fencing medalist, was disqualified from the World Fencing Championships in Milan on Thursday after refusing to shake hands with her Russian opponent. After Ms. Kharlan defeated Anna Smirnova, a Russian competitor who had joined the comp
Olga Kharlan, a four-time Olympic fencing medalist, was disqualified from the World Fencing Championships in Milan on Thursday after refusing to shake hands with her Russian opponent. After Ms. Kharlan defeated Anna Smirnova, a Russian competitor who had joined the comp
'Salva' por brasileiros, cidade nos EUA recruta professores bilíngues
O trem perde velocidade e as fachadas começam a ficar mais claras. Primeiro, o Rei da Carne. Depois, a Igreja Cristã Evangélica. Pouco à frente, a Brazilian Stakehouse, uma churrascaria. E um encanto se quebra quando o maquinista avisa, em inglês: "This is Framingham" (Aqui é Framingham).
É o português de sotaque mineiro que parece a língua oficial da cidade. Na padaria Pão Brasil, uma televisão ligada na hora do almoço exibe ao vivo as últimas notícias de Minas Gerais no MGTV, da TV Globo. A o
É o português de sotaque mineiro que parece a língua oficial da cidade. Na padaria Pão Brasil, uma televisão ligada na hora do almoço exibe ao vivo as últimas notícias de Minas Gerais no MGTV, da TV Globo. A o
Saving the Amazon, before it’s too late - The Boston Globe
And they should act soon because preserving the Amazon has become a matter of international urgency. The forest stores an enormous amount of carbon that would be unleashed into the atmosphere and contribute to climate change if deforestation by farmers, loggers, and miners in Brazil isn’t halted. Last year, the Amazon was estimated to be losing about 60 square miles of rainforest — an area just bigger than the whole city of Boston — per week.
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Brazil to reopen probe of George Santos in 2008 checkbook fraud case
SANTOS, Brazil — Authorities in Brazil are seeking to reinstate a 15-year-old fraud charge against George Santos, the latest controversy to hit the New York Republican, who was due to be sworn in to Congress on Tuesday. The charge, news about which was first reported by the New York Times on Monday, stems from the alleged theft and use of a checkbook in Rio de Janeiro state in 2008, when Santos was 19. Authorities opened an investigation but suspended it when they were unable to find him. He is
Brazil’s toxic politics stain a soccer icon: The national team jersey
As Brazil begins World Cup play Thursday favored to win a record sixth title, what would normally be a moment of joyful anticipation in Latin America’s largest nation is being dampened by lingering division in the aftermath of last month’s ugly presidential election. The divide is ripping at the seams of the canarinho, the once-sacred “little canary” shirt, which was co-opted as campaign wear before, during and after the vote by supporters of the “Trump of the Tropics” — election loser Jair Bols
Trump aides Bannon, Miller advising the Bolsonaros on next steps
RIO DE JANEIRO — While tens of thousands of supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro camp outside military facilities across Brazil to protest his election loss, members of Bolsonaro’s inner circle are meeting with advisers to former president Donald Trump to discuss next steps.
Brazil gets tough on Crackland, and the drug market spreads
It’s been two months since hundreds of drug-addicted people spilled into Mendes’s neighborhood, and her morning walks have been tense ever since. Now, when she goes to the gym, the retired tourism manager takes only her key. She avoids going out at night at all.
Since crack cocaine engulfed São Paulo in the 1990s, nearly every city administration has proclaimed victory over Crackland, only to see it resurge, whack-a-mole style, in a different location, to the horror of the residents and busines
Since crack cocaine engulfed São Paulo in the 1990s, nearly every city administration has proclaimed victory over Crackland, only to see it resurge, whack-a-mole style, in a different location, to the horror of the residents and busines
He’s been called a deforester and killer. Now he’s called mayor.
The city of São Felix do Xingu, in Brazil's Pará state, has been marked by extraordinary deforestation, violence and territorial disputes.
