As Obama meets with businesspeople in Brasilia and plays soccer in the favelas of Rio, he has a chance to bring the reality of "City of God" into the boardroom.
A part of President Obama's visit to Brazil is to be an outing to a favela, a slum neighborhood, in Rio de Janeiro.
As you land in Rio de Janeiro with its magnificent mountains rising from the ocean, you may think you're landing in Honolulu. Next you will notice that Brazilians are truly happy.
Mega pop stars Beyonce Knowles and Alicia Keys (probably the two most important women currently in Jay-Z's life) joined forces last year on their coll...
BRASILIA, Brazil - Carnival is still a few days away, but some Brazilians are already strutting through the streets wearing next to nothing. About 2...
If you're looking for a way to get to know real Brazilian culture, Carnival is a fantastic time, with many neighborhoods proudly represented and displaying their very best.
Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro is bigger and better than ever in 2010, with the street celebrations having surged in popularity over the last ten years an...
Congratulations to Paulo Coelho for speaking out against Tony Blair's potential involvement in planning for Brazil's 2016 Olympics. It's all wrapped up in politics, which forces me to insert real science into the most glaring of oxymorons: political science.
RIO DE JANEIRO — Police raided gang-ruled shantytowns Wednesday, setting off clashes that killed 14 people as authorities try to halt a wave of ...
Last week, torrential rains left severe flooding and caused devastating mudslides in mountainous areas outside of Rio de Janeiro. Thousands are left ...
TERESOPOLIS, Brazil — Pointing at the cliff of crumbling red clay, Renato Motta de Lima described a landscape that now existed only in memory: h...
TERESOPOLIS — The call for help was clearly visible from the helicopter: SOS, carved into the immaculate lawn of an upscale home. Next to it, p...
During Graffiti Gone Global's, Fresh Produce exhibit presented at Art Basel Miami Beach, Crane.Tv met up with Dre Urehahn and Jeroen Koolhaas, the duo...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Isabella Magacho is a 32-year-old police detective who wants to be queen. On weekdays she investigates homicides, but in he...
Brazil's security forces have seized control from the drug cartels who held sway in Rio's poorest districts for close to three decades. It marks more than just a scripted defeat of the bad guys.
A Brooklyn artist visits the garbage dumps of Rio de Janeiro to paint the ragpickers. On the face of it, the project might seem to reek of exploitatio...
The exhibit at 1500 Gallery shows photojournalism from the heady 1950s when the instant city of Brasilia rose up out of the South American desert draws distinct parallels between then and now.
Brazil faces incredible odds as it seeks to join the more affluent developed nations. Rousseff will promote greater infrastructure sorely needed given the lack of basic sanitation many areas of the country.
I arrived at Brazil's PR firm's fancy upstairs offices where a company rep provided me with a glossy green booklet showcasing Brazil's many economic accomplishments.
Where we no longer must allocate the time and resources to go physically to all corners of the earth -- Facebook, Skype, our email takes us there.
In the spring I travelled to Barcelona for the GSM Association's World Congress, with 49,000 participants spread between mobile phone-related 1,300 ve...
New York has just played host to a unique film -- part social commentary, part an alert, part tragedy, part hopeful -- about three teenage girls in an economic and moral morass that leads to prostitution.
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil has ordered its air force to document any UFO sightings and make the data available to researchers and the public. A de...
One of the best music festivals in Brazil, or the world for that matter, is one that few people know about. The Festival Vale do Café (the Coffee Val...
