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Brazil's Carnival was in full swing on Friday with samba school parades kicking off the festivities in Sao Paulo's Sambadrome. The traditional samba school Barroca Zona Sul was one of the first to ...

The excitement around the awards even prompted TV Globo, Brazil’s largest network, to resume live coverage of the ceremony after a five-year hiatus. It skipped the nationwide airing of high-ratings ...

Brazil’s Carnival muse this year isn’t one of the divas or drum queens parading with the Rio de Janeiro samba schools.

Tens of thousands of cheering fans pack the bleachers of Rio de Janeiro’s Sambadrome to see the first night of the top samba schools’ Carnival parades in Brazil. Rio Carnival 2025 LIVE: Watch Samba ...

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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 ...

Part of what makes Brazilian Carnaval so special is the depth and complexity within ... picture-perfect setting for a lovely Carnaval celebration. You can expect street parades, local fairs, blocos, ...

It skipped the nationwide airing of high-ratings Carnival parades to instead broadcast the Oscars. “Today, all of Brazil only thinks about this,” President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on ...

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