Carlos Diegues, Filmmaker Who Celebrated Brazil’s Diversity, Dies at 84 Seeking to shed the gauzy influence of Hollywood and focus on Brazil’s ethnic richness and troubled history, he helped forge a new path for his country’s cinema.

Brazil’s Mafia-Run Animal Lottery Was Invincible. Online Games Changed That. Digital gambling could spell the end for a lottery run by criminal gangs that has been a fixture of Brazilian life for decades.

The $34 Billion Collapse: How Brazil’s Richest Man Lost Everything – The Story of Eike Batista submitted by /u/bfcrew

Brazil’s President Lula Is in ICU After Emergency Brain Surgery President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil was in the hospital recovering from the procedure. Doctors said the bleeding appeared to be linked to a fall in October.

Explosions Outside Brazil’s Supreme Court Leave 1 Dead Two blasts rocked an area near the heart of the Brazilian government’s offices.