One week in the ongoing police strike, Salvador - one of the popular tourist cities in Brazil – has been stricken with violent unrest. Over the last three days, commerce has closed in downtown and in ...

With talks stalled between the state government and striking police officers in the Brazilian state of Bahia, the police have taken aim at the country's iconic Carnival celebration in a move meant to ...

Festive Land examines one of the largest and most extraordinary popular celebrations in the world, the week-long Carnival that brings more than two million people to the streets of Salvador, the ...

They couldn't see it, but they could hear it. Carnival revelers Sunday in northeastern Brazil 's Madre de Deus heard the aluminum can street party before spotting it: More than 30 paraders decked out ...

A Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro will present the story of a trans woman nearly burned at the stake in the 16th century, highlighting the ongoing violence against transgender people in Brazil, ...

"Go to hell, and tag your location once you're there!" Netflix has debuted an official trailer for a very cheesy Brazilian friendship comedy called Carnaval, an obvious "carnal" play on the festive ...

Police have ended their strike in a north-eastern Brazilian state, though a similar action in Rio de Janeiro continues days before carnival draws 800,000 tourists. Police in Bahia voted to end a ...

Rhythm is king in this seaside city long known as the capital of Afro-Brazilian culture, or more simply as the Black Rome–and not only at carnival. Drums thunder from behind the colorful walls of ...

You sit at a chair in an Internet cafe and find yourself before a Microsoft Windows screen in Hebrew. You take a glance at the computers to your sides — and find the same. Welcome to Arraial D’Ajuda, ...