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Neymar’s goal for Paris Saint-Germain against Liverpool in the pair’s Champions League clash moved him to the top of the scoring charts among Brazilians in Europe’s premier club competition. Neymar struck in the 37th minute at the Parc des Princes after tucking home a rebound from an Edinson Cavani shot following a blistering team move […]
Somewhere in Rio de Janeiro, 28-year-old Krysllah Mendoca closes her eyes and lifts her arms in reverence. Dressed in all white, Mendoca is paying homage to spirits and the spirit world during an Umbanda ceremony. Umbanda, which emerged from Rio in the 1930s, is a mix of the region’s religions, including African traditions of worship, […]
Of Brazil’s last two presidents from the country’s Workers’ Party (PT), one has been jailed and the other impeached. As the party seeks to reclaim power in the country it led for 14 years, it has a new vow: to make “Brazil happy again.” The slogan has echoes of Donald Trump’s “Make America great again” […]
If the world was looking for an Emmanuel Macron figure in Brazil’s upcoming presidential election, some would argue they should look no further than the offices of São Paulo’s controversial millionaire mayor, João Doria. There, a picture of the former businessman shaking hands with France’s president hints at him being a man with his heart […]
Days after returning to Rio de Janeiro from a yearlong fellowship at Berlin’s Institute for Advanced Studies, Lena Lavinas attended a conference and delivered an unrelievedly bleak diagnosis of Brazil’s economic crisis. The economist and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) professor went on the offensive after a speaker’s comments about the country’s overvalued […]
For the Brazilian version of The Mountaintop, an American play that imagines Martin Luther King Jr.’s last night, actor-director Lázaro Ramos, 38, added a line from contemporary politics. During a monologue he delivers on race relations, Ramos, playing Dr. King, quotes an activist from Brazil’s anti-police-violence movement React or Be Killed: “In this country, Black […]
The Brazilian YouTube comedy ensemble Yo Ban Boo has a sketch called “Baby, I Turned White.” First one, then the other member of an Asian couple are replaced by white actors, horrifying the other partner who cries, “Who did you become?” The camera zooms out to reveal that the scene is occurring inside a television […]
Fabio Ostermann’s office in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre boasts a bookshelf with rows dedicated to Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises. On top sits a copy of the American Declaration of Independence, a ukulele and a cartoon blow-up doll of Brazil’s former president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, dressed in the […]
During Carnival, millions take to the streets in Brazil to forget their woes and party. This past February, however, there were shouts of “Fora Temer!” (Temer out!) — a familiar cry from Brazilians fed up with President Michel Temer’s government, but coming from revelers, it was a sign of just how outraged citizens have become […]
Chomping down hamburgers and chicken nuggets at a Rio de Janeiro mall, 17-year-old Julia Saltiel and three male friends discuss missing this year’s Carnival due to college test prep. This is their only social activity this week. In the company of their female friend — who towers above them intellectually — the boys are untroubled. […]
