São Paulo's Carandiru Penitentiary erupted into chaos, leading to a brutal police crackdown that left 111 inmates dead. This ...

An American team will win the next soccer World Cup,” a Nicaraguan boy once told me. It took me a second to realize he meant ...

The construction of a road is drawing attention in the run-up to the annual U.N. climate conference in Brazil.

With little fanfare and virtually no publicity, lawmakers in the Brazilian state of Rondonia have passed legislation in favor of hundreds of cattle ranchers who had illegally converted swathes of ...

In 1917, two empires that had dominated much of Europe and Asia teetered on the edge of the abyss, exhausted by the ruinous cost in blood and treasure of the First World War. As Imperial Russia and ...