Rio’s forgotten site where Brazil disposed of its enslaved Africans
20 years ago one Rio resident made a shocking discovery: skeleton after skeleton buried under her house. The house is now a shrine to those who died in Brazil’s slave trade.
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Five-times World Cup winners Brazil had claimed victory in their last 62 games at home. But that all changed in the 2014 semi-final, leaving the host nation – and the interwebs – reeling.
There has been speculation that anti-government protests could erupt if the host nation loses its World Cup semi-final clash against Germany. But is that likely?
Channel 4 News visits a football project in Rio de Janeiro designed to help vulnerable young women and girls in the favelas avoid a life of crime on the streets.
In the biggest shock in World Cup history, Brazil are dumped out of the tournament by a rampant Germany. There are no words, so here are some pictures.
Brazil’s talisman and World Cup poster-boy Neymar is out of the tournament but how damaging is it for the home team?
In Brazil’s lawless north, the fight for land and natural resources has killed 448 people since 2002. Guillermo Galdos reports from Para state, one of the most dangerous places in the Amazon basin.
A flyover collapses in Belo Horizonte in Brazil, a World Cup 2014 host city, killing at least two people and injuring 22 more.
20 years ago one Rio resident made a shocking discovery: skeleton after skeleton buried under her house. The house is now a shrine to those who died in Brazil’s slave trade.
The first time I came to Sao Paulo over a decade ago, I was struck by the cost of living in comparison to the rest of the region.
Peru may not be appearing in this year’s World Cup, but that did not stop our Latin American Reporter Guillermo Galdos, a Peruvian, from getting involved with a football in Sao Paulo.
Brazilian protesters, angry at the cost of hosting the World Cup, clash with police on the streets of Rio de Janeiro as the football tournament kicked off on Thursday evening.
The World Cup begins on Thursday, but what should be a joyful moment for Brazilians has been marred by anti-government protests, with anger also directed at football’s governing body.
All eyes will be on England’s team in the coming weeks as they face some testing matches in Brazil. But the weather will provide its own challenges too – so what can they expect?
Follow the Channel 4 News team’s reports from Brazil – the football, the favelas and the Fifa controversy – all on our clickable video map.
The World Cup kicks off in Brazil on Thursday in what promises to be a festival of colour. But the country has a darker side of drug addiction and child exploitation, as Mark Williams-Thomas reports.