List of Brazil articles
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TO GO WITH AFP STORY People attend a mass of the Assembly of God church, in Goiania, Goias State, Brazil, on May 19, 2013. The election of evangelical minister Marco Feliciano as president of the House of Deputies' commission of human rights and minorities, is seen as a sign of the growing influence of evangelicals in Congress, where they have 67 deputies ot of a total 513, and in Brazilian politics in general. Evangelicals count 565 million adherents and represent more than one-fourth of the world's Christians, according to French researcher Sebastien Fath. AFP PHOTO / Evaristo SA (Photo credit should read EVARISTO SA/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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hsbc Why Is HSBC Leaving Brazil and Turkey?
Because they have economies with flattening income inequality. And that's bad for business.
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GettyImages-466403320 Dilma Makes Amends With the Markets
Why is Brazil's developmentalist president suddenly talking austerity and rebalancing?
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462745184 cropped Getting a Handle on National Wealth
It’s time to unleash the untapped potential of public assets — and that doesn’t have to mean privatization.
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SAO LUIS, BRAZIL - JANUARY 27: Inmates stand in their cell in the Pedrinhas Prison Complex, the largest penitentiary in Maranhao state, on January 27, 2015 in Sao Luis, Brazil. Previously one of the most violent prisons in Brazil, Pedrinhas has seen efforts from a new state administration, new prison officials and judiciary leaders from Maranhao which appear to have quelled some of the unrest within the complex. In 2013, nearly 60 inmates were killed within the complex, including three who were beheaded during rioting. Much of the violence stemmed from broken cells allowing inmates and gang rivals to mix in the patios and open spaces of the complex. Officials recently repaired and repopulated the cells allowing law enforcement access and decreasing violence among prisoners, according to officials. Other reforms include a policy of custody hearings and real-time camera feeds. According to officials there have been no prisoner on prisoner killings inside the complex in nearly four months. Critics believe overcrowding is one of the primary causes of rioting and violence in Brazil's prisons. Additionally, overcrowding has strengthened prison gangs which now span the country and contol certain peripheries of cities including Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Sao Luis. Brazil now has the fourth-largest prison population in the world behind the U.S., Russia and China. The population of those imprisoned had quadrupled in the past twenty years to around 550,000 and the country needs at least 200,000 new incarceration spaces to eliminate overcrowding. A vast increase in minor drug arrests, a dearth of legal advice for prisoners and a lack of political will for new prisons have contributed to the increases. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) On Mother’s Day, Brazil Is Sending Its Convicts Home to See Their Moms
In Brazil, Dia das Mães is an unusually big deal. Families gather for celebrations and meals. The retail sector sees a spike in business topped only by Christmas. And thousands of prisoners are released temporarily so that they can go home to visit the women who raised them.
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Gas tanks of Brazilian state-owned oil giant Petrobras are seen along the Negro river in Manaus, state of Amazonas, Brazil, on November 23, 2013. Manaus will host 4 matches during the FIFA World Cup 2014. AFP PHOTO / YASUYOSHI CHIBA (Photo credit should read YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images) The Kickback That Killed Brazil
Itaboraí was once a petro-boomtown; it’s now an empty shell. How the Petrobras mega-scandal is destroying ordinary lives and bringing down the rich and powerful.
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SHELLBG Gas Market Following in Oil’s Footsteps With Shell, BG Megamerger
The biggest energy deal in a decade is a $70 billion bet that the world is indeed entering the "Age of Gas."
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BRAZIL-POLITICS-PROTEST Greasing the Path to Dilma’s Downfall
Amid a massive oil scandal and a stagnant economy, Brazil’s right has found the opening it’s been waiting for to break 12 years of Workers’ Party rule.
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Palm Springs Hospital Exam Room150_2-18 Pregnant and Desperate in Evangelical Brazil
As the country grows increasingly religious, strict abortion laws are forcing women to turn to risky, often deadly options to end their pregnancies.
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MAURICIO LIMA/AFP/Getty Images Dilma’s Smoke, Modi’s Mirrors
From India to Brazil to Indonesia, getting emerging market economies in order is going to be a lot harder than investors want to believe.
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YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP Meet the Kingmakers of Brasilia
Whoever wins the Brazilian presidential runoff on Oct. 26 better be ready to kiss the ring of the PMDB.
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NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP Brazil’s Election Illusion
The heated presidential race between Rousseff and Neves conceals the most important fact: There's not much daylight between the candidates.
