By Jonathan MoensThomas Bauer Jeane Da Gama Costa, 42, grew up in Umburanas, a small municipality of Bahia, in northeastern Brazil. Her family raised cattle for meat and grew crops like beans, corn and watermelon.

Boston River and Bahia played to a 0-0 draw this Thursday at the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo in the first leg of the third phase of the Copa Libertadores..

A Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro will present the story of a trans woman nearly burned at the stake in the 16th century as a means to spotlight trans people’s struggle in Brazil, where more of them are reported killed than anywhere else.

There was nothing to split Uruguay's Boston River and Brazil's Bahia, the two clubs drawing 0-0 in the first leg of their Copa Libertadores third round play-off tie.

A team of Earth scientists, ecologists and space research specialists affiliated with several institutions in Brazil has found that despite efforts by the government to preserve the country's coastal tropical forests,