Brazilian soccer team’s plane crashes in Colombia; 75 dead
By LUIS BENAVIDES and JOSHUA GOODMAN A chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team to the biggest match of its history crashed into a Colombian hillside and broke into pieces,…
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Brazil: Gov. regroups after huge protests against president
By MAURICIO SAVARESE and JENNY BARCHFIELD Embattled Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff called a meeting with her closest advisers and congressional leaders on Monday, a day after nationwide demonstrations urging her…
TV star’s plastic surgery disaster tests Brazil
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Andressa Urach went from being a single teenage mom nicknamed “Beanpole” to a reality TV bombshell in Brazil thanks to silicone implants, anabolic steroids, a nose…
Police and World Cup protesters clash in Brazil
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON and BRADLEY BROOKS Demonstrators push over a police car during a protest demanding better public services and against the money spent on the World Cup soccer…
COMMISSION: EX-BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT WAS MURDERED
FILE – In this undated 1960 file photo, Brazil President Juscelino Kubitschek poses for a photo in Brasilia, Brazil. The Truth Commission of Sao Paulo’s city council says the car…
POLICE: BRAZIL PROTESTERS BEAT UP OFFICER
A demonstrator from the Black Bloc anarchist group throws a Molotov cocktail at a burning bus during a protest against Sao Paulo’s Governor Geraldo Alckmin in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday,…
LATIN AMERICA SEES CHANGE UNDER REGION’S 1ST POPE
By KATHERINE CORCORAN Faithful react after hearing on the speakers at the Metropolitan Cathedral that Buenos Aires’ Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, March…