Brazil has a long and painful history of slavery that impacted its racial composition. In 1888, the country became the last ...

In 1854, Curitiba became the official capital of Paraná, one of Brazil's southernmost states, known for the world-famous Iguaçu Falls just a few hundred miles away, on Paraná's border with ...

After months of tensions over a close presidential election in Brazil, a mob stormed government buildings in the days following the inauguration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.