Brazil creates a truth commission to expose abuses during its former military rule. Shasta Darlington reports.
Some 120 Brazilians who were political prisoners during the country's military dictatorship received official apologies from the state of Rio de Janeiro Monday.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Friday vetoed 12 articles of a controversial forest bill approved by Congress last month, which was promoted by the powerful agriculture lobby but slammed by environmentalists.
Brazil forest code pits environmentalists against farmers. Shasta Darlington visits the country's agricultural frontier.
President Barack Obama and visiting Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Monday stressed the importance of strong ties between their countries, despite Brazil's concerns about U.S. economic policies that it says can work against emerging economies.
Brazil hopes to share its lessons in poverty reduction with its BRICS partners. CNN's Shasta Darlington reports.
After just over a century of amicable relations, Brazil has decided to cool its relationship with Iran.
Brazilians who receive work e-mails or phone calls after office hours could be eligible for overtime, according to a new labor law.
Argentina's president is scheduled to temporarily hand over power Wednesday as she undergoes thyroid cancer surgery.
Un experto explica como será operada la presidenta de Argentina de cáncer de tiroides.
Brazil's Senate passed a controversial forestry bill late Tuesday, supported by ranchers and farmers but opposed by many environmental activists.
Brazil's cabinet lost another minister Sunday with the resignation of Carlo Lupi, who as labor minister became embroiled in an alleged corruption scandal involving non-governmental organizations.
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will begin chemotherapy in the coming days to treat a malignant tumor in his larynx, a hospital official said Saturday.
Brazil's tourism minister has resigned amid corruption allegations, the latest in a string of cabinet defections that have occurred under a cloud of suspicion.
Hackers on Friday targeted two Brazilian government sites, the latest in a string of attacks by at least two hacker outfits.
Caught up in questions raised by a newspaper investigation into the sudden swelling of his wealth, Brazil's Cabinet chief resigned Tuesday, a hit against President Dilma Rousseff.
Environmentalists and indigenous-rights supporters gathered in the Brazilian capital Tuesday to protest a hydroelectric dam project that they say would be devastating to the Amazon region.
The death toll from devastating flooding in Brazil continued to rise Sunday, surpassing 600, the government said.
Risk of disease grows as flooding deaths increase in Brazil. CNN's Helena de Moura reports
The death toll from devastating flooding in Brazil continued to rise Sunday, surpassing 600, the government said.
The death toll from flooding caused by torrential rains in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state rose to 591 people Saturday, Brazil's official news agency reported.
It was like a tsunami from the sky in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state as floodwater gushed through hill towns and giant boulders catapulted from hillsides, instantly crushing cars and houses.
Dilma Rousseff was sworn in as Brazil's president in front of cheering supporters.
Brazil's first female president was sworn in Saturday amid cheers and tears from supporters, many of whom followed her rise from freedom fighter brutally persecuted by the country's military junta in the 1960s to head of state.
She is coming to power holding the hand of a powerful man. Replacing Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as president of Brazil on January 1 is 63-year-old Dilma Rousseff, the first woman to govern this South American country of more than 200 million people.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will attend Saturday's inauguration of Brazilian President-elect Dilma Rousseff, the State Department announced Wednesday.
The new year will be big for female politicians in Latin America.
The New Year will be big for female politicians in Latin America.
The military operation to clear a Rio de Janeiro slum of drug traffickers will effectively turn into an occupation of the area at least through October of next year, Gov. Sergio Cabral said in a radio interview Tuesday.
Brazil will maintain its ties with Iran, but always for peaceful ends only, the country's president-elect, Dilma Rousseff, said in an interview with CNN en Español. She added that war is not the way to resolve international conflicts.
Brazil makes history by electing its first female president, Dilma Rousseff.
Dilma Rousseff, who was elected as Brazil's first female president on Sunday, once told reporters that as a typical Brazilian girl in the 1950s she dreamed of becoming a ballerina.
Brazil's new president-elect vowed to continue her predecessor's move to fight against inequality and promote human rights and fight poverty in her victory speech Sunday night.
As CNN's Shasta Darlington reports, the candidate supported by the current president faces a former big-city mayor.
Brazil's ruling party candidate Dilma Rousseff garnered the most votes in Sunday's presidential election but fell short of the majority she needed to avoid a runoff.
Brazil's general election Sunday spans across all levels of government, from the presidency to local offices. But the spotlight will be on the presidential race, with a former Marxist guerrilla positioned to become Brazil's first female president.
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