Matt Sandy

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Brazil Risks Being Overwhelmed by Coronavirus

Despite implementing social distancing measures nearly two months ago, Brazil's COVID-19 infection rate is still rising sharply

By Matt Sandy and Flávia Milhorance / Rio de Janeiro May 15, 2020

Brazil's Governors Oppose President on Virus

“He is putting people’s lives at risk”

By Matt Sandy and Flávia Milhorance / Rio de Janeiro April 6, 2020

Bearing Witness as Brazil's Amazon Burns

A crimson fire, shadowed by billows of dark smoke, lights up the night horizon of the Amazon rainforest as a wooden crucifix and a lone tree trunk resist the blaze. The scene was captured by...

By Matt Sandy September 1, 2019

Brazil Rejoices and Trembles at Bolsonaro Victory

"There will be high tensions"

By Matt Sandy / Rio de Janeiro October 29, 2018

Brazil Wakes Up to the Reality of a Bolsonaro Presidency

“It is important for the establishment to hear this message”

By Matt Sandy/Rio de Janeiro October 8, 2018

Jair Bolsonaro Loves Trump, Hates Gay People and Admires Autocrats. He Could Be Brazil's Next President

On the wall of Jair Bolsonaro's office in a modernist annex of Brazil's Congress hang five faded black-and-white portraits. They are memoirs of a time many Brazilians would prefer to forget, when military generals ruled...

By Matt Sandy/Brasilia August 23, 2018

Brazil Judge's Death Sparks Conspiracy Theories

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Teori Zavascki had recently received threats, his son said

By Matt Sandy / Rio de Janeiro January 23, 2017

Dilma Rousseff's Impeachment Is the Start of Brazil's Crisis—Not the End

'People will disagree about this for a generation'

By Matt Sandy/Rio de Janeiro September 1, 2016

Rio de Janeiro's Mayor Has No Worries About the Olympics

'I want to be king of Rio'

By Matt Sandy/Rio de Janeiro August 4, 2016

Rio de Janeiro's Forgotten Legacy of Slavery Shadows the Olympics

More than 2 million slaves came through Rio de Janeiro

By Matt Sandy/Rio de Janeiro August 2, 2016
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