A boisterous crowd inside the venue, which is known as the spiritual home of Brazilian volleyball, were in fine voice throughout, with the adrenaline still flowing from their Olympic football triumph ...

Contraband cost Brazil tens of billions of dollars in 2016, according to two watchdog groups, an astonishing amount of money that illustrates the depth of the problem. Brazil’s Parliamentary Front for ...

The youth division coach’s removal was confirmed by Brazilian Football Confederation spokesman Gregorio Fernandes. Brazil reached the final stage of the 2017 South American Youth Championship, the ...

It’s Christine Sinclair vs. Marta, one more – possibly final – time. The two superstars have been the faces of their respective national teams for a decade, and both were aiming to help their squads ...

Brazil has taken some positive measures that address recommendations it received during the previous UPR cycle, such as the creation, in 2013, of a National System to Prevent and Combat Torture, and a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the business and culture of Brazil. But today, good news, from an unlikely place. Over the past 24 hours, Brazil has ...

Brazil's Olympic legacy? An abandoned Maracana Link Copied! Roughly six months on from the closing ceremony of the 2016 Olympics, the Maracana Stadium is abandoned. Is this the legacy of the Olympics ...

Chris Feliciano Arnold is the author of “The Third Bank of the River: Blood, Power and Survival in the Twenty-First Century Amazon,” forthcoming from Picador USA. Follow him @chrisarnold. During the ...

Reasons vary per person, but the Catholic Church is losing its faithful in Brazil. The ongoing exodus from the church in what is the world's largest Catholic nation shed another 9 million church-goers ...