Brazil’s federal police have arrested the chief of the Rio de Janeiro state civil police for allegedly helping orchestrate the killing of popular councilwoman Marielle Franco in 2018 and taking money to obstruct the very investigation he would oversee Source: A Rio councilwoman’s killing was a mystery. An arrest gave a peek at corruption keeping […]
By Terrence McCoy, Photos by Rafael Vilela In 1852, Nathaniel Gordon sailed the Camargo to Brazil, illegally sold 500 enslaved Africans, and burned and sank the ship. Now divers think they’ve found it. Source: The underwater hunt for the lost ship of an American slave trafficker
Brazil’s Supreme Court denied a request by former president Jair Bolsonaro’s lawyers that his passport be returned to him so that he can travel to Israel, according to an official document released on Friday. Source: Brazil’s top court denies Bolsonaro’s request for passport return to travel to Israel