With more than 350,000 active personnel, the Brazilian Armed Forces have the largest standing military in South America The ...

Brazil does not have the largest navy in South America, that honor belongs to Colombia Colombia’s navy operates a wide range ...

By André Schröder In 1964, the Brazilian military launched a coup d’état, overthrowing the democratically elected government ...

Over the last two hundred years, the United States has maintained a relationship of ups and downs with the second most ...

Marcelo is the son of Rubens Paiva, an ex-Congressman whose opposition to the Brazilian military dictatorship resulted in exile in 1964 until, in 1971, he was made to disappear. Salles, who knew the ...

With the possible exception of the animated feature The Wild Robot, no film that has had its world premiere or North American ...

Sérgio Mendes, the Grammy-winning Brazilian musician whose hit “Mas Que Nada” made him a global legend, has died after months ...

In the late 1960s, a young generation of Brazilian musicians began making albums that were more expansive and progressive ...

Chinese troops will take part for the first time in Brazil's annual military exercises this week that also include U.S. forces, the Brazilian Navy said on Tuesday.

He was the Brazilian music legend who brought bossa nova to a global audience in a career that lasted more than 60 years. In the past few days, tributes have been flooding in for legendary Brazilian ...

Mendes first became professionally active in the late 1950s and is widely recognized as a popularizer of Brazilian music ...

Brazilian musician Sérgio Mendes, who helped popularise bossa nova and samba with Western audiences, has died at the age of ...