In 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 ArticleHow Different Cultures Handle Personal Space
Our perspectives on personal space — the distance we keep between the person in front of us at an ATM, the way we subdivide the area of an elevator — are often heavily influenced by the norms of the...
View ArticleC-Sections Deliver Cachet For Wealthy Brazilian Women
The office is immaculate, as you would expect in an upscale neighborhood in Sao Paulo — all sterile, white, modish plastic furniture and green plants. Behind the reception desk are pictures that would...
View ArticleRichard Swanson Didn't Reach Brazil, But He Found An Audience
Hundreds of condolences are appearing online for Richard Swanson, the Seattle man whose plan to dribble a soccer ball all the way to Brazil to raise money for charity ended Tuesday after he was struck...
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 ArticleBig-Mouthed Toucans Key To Forest Evolution
Brazil is a paradise for birds; the country has more than 1,700 species. Among them is the colorful toucan, a bird with an almost comically giant bill that can be half as long as its body. There are...
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 ArticleSnowden Seeks Asylum In 20+ Nations; Gives Up On Russia
With help from a WikiLeaks lawyer, the young American who admits he leaked information about National Security Agency surveillance programs has now asked more than 20 nations to give him asylum.But as...
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 ArticleIf Snowden Tries To Get To Latin America, Cuba Could Be Key
Update at 9:22 p.m. ET. Snowden Reveals Documents On Brazil:Amid requests and offers of asylum in Latin America, Edward Snowden has apparently released documents showing that the U.S. spied on millions...
View ArticleEven Married, They Can't Be Together Legally
Each week,Weekend Edition Sundayhost Rachel Martin brings listeners an unexpected side of the news by talking with someone personally affected by the stories making headlines.As immigration legislation...
View ArticleMob Brutally Kills Soccer Referee After Player Is Stabbed And Killed
Brazilian police have made an arrest in a grisly incident during a soccer match, in which a referee's leveling of a red card penalty set off a clash with a player that resulted in the player's death...
View ArticlePope's Visit To Brazil Seen As 'Triumphant Homecoming'
When Pope Francis arrives in Brazil on Monday, he'll begin a trip of firsts.He's the first Latin American pope, and it will be his first trip abroad as pontiff. And he'll be visiting a country with...
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 ArticleRoots Of Samba: Exploring Historic Pelourinho In Salvador, Brazil
The first stop on World Cafe's trip to Brazil was in Pelourinho, the old part of the city of Salvador on the country's northeast coast. In this installment of Sense of Place: Rio, World Cafe captures a...
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 ArticleIn First Public Mass In Brazil, Pope Francis Urges Humility, Charity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7QECA1DUMc
View ArticleWhy Would You Volunteer For Next Year's Super Bowl?
I read the other day that 16,000 people have been recruited as volunteers for next year's Super Bowl in New Jersey, and suddenly it occurred to me: the Super Bowl is one of the great financial bonanzas...
View Article
