Brazil
Brazil probes dictatorship’s human rights abuses
May 29, 2012Brazil's government will now investigate human rights violations committed by the right-wing military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1964 to 1985.
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Latin American, Caribbean unity group forms in Caracas
December 5, 2011Cuban President Raul Castro told reporters that, "For the first time in history we will have an organization of Our America."
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Rain is not only cause of Brazil disaster
January 19, 2011Reports from Brazil charge that politics and real estate greed contributed to the worst natural disaster in the country's history.
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Love, revolution, Lula: films from Latin America
November 18, 2010Two new films from Latin America dramatize the progressive histories of Cuba and Brazil: one an allegory, the other a biopic of a charismatic leader.
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Former guerrilla becomes Brazil’s first woman president
November 1, 2010Dilma Rousseff, a former fighter against Brazil's U.S. supported military dictatorship, won a runoff election on Sunday October 31 and will become the first woman president in the huge South American nation's history.
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