The state government — which oversees both the military police, responsible for patrol and public order ... of grassroots groups and mothers of victims acting as amici curiae, pushing for a shift in ...

Here’s something that foreigners don’t realize: Brazil discriminates against itself. The Northeast—or Nordeste as we call ...

The United States government has helped create this crisis. In 2023, the Military Police in Brazil recorded having killed 6,296 people (approximately 17 people per day)—eight times the U.S ...

SAO PAULO — (AP) — Brazil's government on Monday apologized to families of victims of the country's military dictatorship whose remains could be among those found in a clandestine mass grave ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s government on Monday apologized to families of victims of the country’s military dictatorship ... celebrated in other countries. Police said a second suspect ...

Brazil’s truth commission in 2014 reported that at least 434 people were killed and more than 100 disappeared completely during the country’s military dictatorship. The disappearance of former ...