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How a shipwreck almost led Brazil to war with England

By Jorge de Souza Even today, the rare visitors to the Albardão lighthouse, the most isolated in Brazil, in a...

Peru hunts down Mennonites, a pacifist sect, for deforestation

Were it not for the lush Amazon rainforest that surrounds it, Wanderland could almost...

Hy Brazil, the “phantom island” on maps that mysteriously disappeared in 1872

At least 125 years before Brazil welcomed the first Portuguese; map readers already knew about Brazil long before America was discovered. However, not as the...

Ipanema, our girl that lives forever

Until the 1930s, Tijuca was aristocratic. Ipanema was nothing more than an uninhabited sandy beach isolated from the city. It...

Nueva Germania, the racist dream of Nietzsche’s brother-in-law in...

On June 3, 1889, a man named Bernhard Förster, who had settled a colony of Germans in deep Paraguay,...

Australian Senator Gerard Rennick: "There has been a lot of misleading advertising in regards to the safe and effective claim….the risks have never been clearly outlined"

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