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Archaeological digs in Amazon provide clues about Indigenous inhabitants before colonization

Paving roads in the Amazon rainforest often causes deforestation that threatens the people who live there.

 

Photos of Brazilian Indigenous people as they unite to demand land rights

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Indigenous people from across Brazil gathered in the capital for the annual Free Land Encampment rally to demand that the government honor longstanding promises, like the demarcation of Indigenous territories.

 

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AP PHOTOS: Princess Kako of Japan visits Brazil

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AP PHOTOS: Brazil’s Cavalhadas festival celebrates the Holy Spirit

PIRENOPOLIS, Brazil (AP) — The heartland Brazilian city of Pirenópolis is hosting its annual Cavalhadas festival, a Holy Spirit celebration where participants ride horses, wear masks and don floral headpieces.

 

AP PHOTOS: Brazilian Order of the Sunrise gather for their annual May 1st ceremony

PLANALTINA, Brazil (AP) — Order of the Sunrise followers gathered for their annual May 1st ceremony known as the “Day of the Spiritual Indoctrinator,” at their lakeside temple in Planaltina.

 

Catholics in rural area outside Brazil’s capital celebrate Epiphany festival

SANTO ANTONIO DE GOIAS, Brazil (AP) — Catholics in the small Brazilian city of Santo Antonio de Goias celebrated the Epiphany throughout the weekend and into Monday, the same day the rest of the nation observed Three Kings Day.

 

Indigenous people march in Brazil’s capital against bill limiting land rights

Hundreds of Indigenous people were marching Wednesday in Brazil’s capital, urging Congress to drop a proposed constitutional amendment that has the potential to paralyze and even reverse land allocations.

 

Brazil’s Cavalhadas festival celebrates victory of Iberian Christian knights over the Moors

People in the heartland Brazilian city of Pirenopolis are taking to the streets in a procession of the Cavalhadas festival.

 

Brazil’s aluminum can street party brings joy, and a green message, to revelers

Carnival revelers in Brazil’s Madre de Deus heard the aluminum can street party before spotting it. More than 30 paraders decked out in cumbersome outfits made from hundreds of beer and soda cans clanged their way around the island in Bahia state’s Bay of all saints.

 

The Brazilian Amazon’s vast array of people and cultures

Renowned for its stunning biodiversity, the Amazon rainforest region is also home to a vast array of people and cultures.

 

Brazilian Indigenous women use fashion to showcase their claim to rights and the demarcation of land

Indigenous women in Brazil’s capital Brasilia showcased their creations during a fashion event as part of the Third March of Indigenous Women to claim women’s rights and the demarcation of Indigenous lands.

 

Fashion sneakers propel sustainable rubber in Brazil Amazon

Veja, an expensive global sneaker brand, is making shoes from traditionally-harvested Brazilian Amazon latex in collaboration with local rubber tappers.

 

Brazil’s Lula promises no deforestation but challenges loom

Brazil’s incoming president has promised to eliminate all deforestation by 2030, which would be a complete change of course for Brazil compared to the last four years.

 

Climate Migration: Açai growers flee salty Amazon water

The Amazon river discharges one-fifth of all the world’s water that runs off the land surface. Despite a volume more than 10 times the Mississippi’s, the seawater is advancing and leaving thousands of inhabitants of the Bailique archipelago scrambling to quench their thirst.

 

AP PHOTOS: Brazil slave descendants revive rites after COVID

CAVALCANTE, Brazil (AP) — For three long years, Vandeli Matos was an emperor in waiting. The symbolic coronation of the 33-year-old finally occurred this week when the Kalunga quilombo — as Brazilian communities descended from runaway slaves are known — gathered for the first time since the pandemic

 

AP PHOTOS: Brazil procession celebrates the Holy Spirit

PIRENOPOLIS, Brazil (AP) — Over the course of nine days, a religious procession known as the Folia of the Divine Holy Spirit brings messages of faith and song to farms and villages across the countryside of Brazil’s Goias state.

 

Urban mining transforms Brazil neighborhoods into ghost town

MACEIO, Brazil (AP) — This part of Maceio, the capital of Brazil’s northeastern Alagoas state, used to buzz with the sounds of cars, commerce and children playing.

 

Tens of thousands mourn Brazilian country music singer

Tens of thousands of fans of Brazilian country music singer Marília Mendonça have gathered to pay tribute to the 26-year-old Latin Grammy winner.

 

Brazil’s women join in anthem denouncing sexual violence

Brazilian women have staged demonstrations in the capital and in Rio de Janeiro, singing a song protesting sexual violence that has become an anthem for women across Latin America.

 

Brazil’s indigenous protest to defend their rights, lands

As many as 2,000 of Brazil’s indigenous people marched Thursday through the capital to protest what they say is an unprecedented governmental assault on their rights and lands.

 

AP PHOTOS: Brazilians honor sea goddess Yemanja

SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — Thousands of Brazilians flooded beaches around the northeastern city of Salvador to pay tribute to the sea goddess Yemanja and ask for her protection ahead of Carnival celebrations.

 

AP PHOTOS: Celebrating Azorean culture in southern Brazil

ENSEADA DE BRITO, Brazil (AP) — On a sunny plaza looking out on the southern Atlantic, girls in green and red traditional skirts and boys in black pants and vests perform dances that traveled thousands of miles over that ocean more than two centuries ago.

 

AP PHOTOS: Ox Cart Festival celebrates Brazil colonial days

VAZANTE, Brazil (AP) — As the sun sets, the campground buzzes as people pitch tents and set up kitchens on the green fields of rural Vazante, a city in Brazil’s southeastern state of Minas Gerais.

 

Troops pull out of Brazil capital; president under pressure

Brazil’s president has canceled an order that sent soldiers into the streets of the capital, following criticism that the move was excessive and merely an effort to maintain power amid increasing calls for his resignation.

 

Embattled Brazilian president orders troops to restore order

Brazil’s president has ordered soldiers to restore order in the country’s capital after some ministries were evacuated during clashes between police and protesters who are seeking the leader’s ouster.

 

AP Photos: In Brazil’s Amazon, worship with psychedelic tea

Culture in the community of Ceu do Mapia revolves around an ancient psychedelic tea locals know as the Holy Daime.

 

AP PHOTOS: Rare disease afflicts Brazilian village

ARARAS, Brazil (AP) — This is a village where the people melt away.

Tucked into the sunbaked rolling hills of Brazil’s midwest, Araras is home to what is thought to be the largest single group of people suffering from a rare inherited skin disease known as xeroderma pigmentosum, or “XP.”