A War Survivor, An Iraqi Makes A New Home In North Carolina
Ten years after the Iraq War began, NPR is catching up with people we encountered during the conflict. Back in 2008, NPR's armored car was targeted with a so-called sticky bomb in Baghdad. Ali Hamdani,...
View ArticleIn Gritty Sao Paulo, Artists Take To The Streets
It's lunchtime in the heart of Sao Paulo's financial district. Surrounded by tall buildings of cool glass and steel, men and women in suits and business attire walk back and forth busily in Brazil's...
View ArticleAs Youth Crime Spikes, Brazil Struggles For Answers
In Rio de Janeiro, tourists are drawn to Copacabana for its wide beach and foliage-covered cliffs. But a month ago, not far from the tourist hub, an American woman and her French male companion were...
View Article'We Are Not Valued': Brazil's Domestic Workers Seek Rights
The phone is ringing off the hook at the crowded waiting room at the Domestic Workers Union in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil.In the past decade, millions of Brazilians have joined the middle class.
View ArticleRio Goes High-Tech, With An Eye Toward Olympics, World Cup
We are standing in front of a huge bank of screens, in the middle of which is a glowing map that changes focus depending on what the dozens of controllers are looking at.The room looks like something...
View ArticleOnce Unsafe, Rio's Shanty Towns See Rapid Gentrification
A new gastronomic guide to Rio de Janeiro's shantytowns — for a cool $35 — has just been published. A new boutique hotel perched on top of one of Rio's previously most dangerous favelas is about to...
View ArticleBrazilian Leaders Take Conciliatory Tone Toward Protesters
Protests have erupted in Brazil over the past week. On Monday, there were tens of thousands of demonstrators on the streets of cities across the country. And again on Tuesday, demonstrations have...
View ArticleProtests Allow Brazilians To Feel Part Of Global Movement
Transcript DAVID GREENE, HOST: Technology really does seem to make the world smaller, and this morning, we'll hear this morning how that applies to protest movements. Turkey saw a fresh wave of...
View ArticleAmid Construction Boom, Migrants Flow Into Brazil
Brazil is in the midst of a building boom as it constructs stadiums across the country in preparation for the World Cup it will host next year. In Sao Paulo, hundreds of workers are building a massive...
View ArticleProtests Dwindle In Brazil Due To Lack Of Leadership
Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Brazil has been a lot quieter this week. The massive protests that roiled the country have grown smaller. And to understand why, let's go to NPR's Lourdes...
View ArticleBrazil's Highflying VIPs Face Backlash Over Air Travel
Unlike New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who often takes the subway to work, some prominent politicians in Brazil have a far more impressive way of getting around: private helicopters and government...
View ArticleBrazil's Evangelicals A Growing Force In Prayer, Politics
Pope Francis arrives Monday evening in Rio de Janeiro for a weeklong visit celebrating World Youth Day. Hundreds of thousands of Catholics have made the pilgrimage to see the Argentine-born pontiff,...
View ArticleJubilation, Protest Greet Pope Francis In Brazil
Pope Francis arrived in Rio de Janeiro on Monday and was greeted by adoring masses and protesters alike. It is his first foreign trip since becoming pope.
View ArticleThe Radical Brazilian Priest Who Was Excommunicated
His name is Roberto Francisco Daniel, but he goes by Padre Beto. He sports an ear clip, and a rosary around his neck that dips into an open-necked patterned shirt. In short, Padre Beto looks cooler...
View ArticleUnease In Sprawling Rio Slum Ahead Of Police 'Pacification'
Brazilian police are preparing to occupy one of the deadliest shantytown complexes in Rio de Janeiro, hoping to drive out drug gangs ahead of next year's World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.It's the latest...
View ArticleBrazilians Flood To U.S. On Massive Shopping Sprees
What's the busiest U.S. Consulate in the world? If you guessed in Mexico or China, you'd be wrong.It's actually in Brazil, Sao Paulo to be exact. The consulate there is giving a record number of visas...
View ArticlePeru's Natural Gas Rush Threatens Native Tribes, Again
Transcript AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: This is one of the most critical tests for a developing economy: balancing development and the protection of human rights. It's currently playing out on the national...
View ArticleBrazilian Believers Of Hidden Religion Step Out Of Shadows
Amid chanting and drumming, a crowd gathers in Sao Paulo and waits for the gods to come to them from the spirit world.They are celebrating a sacred festival day in honor of Omulu, a deity of life and...
View ArticleBrazil's President Postpones U.S. Visit Over Spying Concerns
Transcript STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: A secret surveillance court has issued a very rare public defense of the U.S. program that collects massive data on phone calls. The court wrote that this program which...
View ArticleBrazil's Restrictions On Abortion May Get More Restrictive
The doctor's office is clean and white and comfortingly bland in an upscale neighborhood of Sao Paulo. We were given the address by a health professional who told us one of the doctors here gives safe...
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