Government cuts blamed for Brazil National Museum inferno
AFP | Brazilian officials on Monday blamed years of government cutbacks for an inferno that gutted the treasured National Museum, described by President Michel Temer...
Brazil’s first human, a ‘priceless’ loss from Rio’s museum fire
AFP | Brazil on Monday mourned the loss of the "first Brazilian," Luzia, after the 12,000-year-old fossil was destroyed in a raging fire that ripped...
Raging fire tears through prized Rio museum
AFP | A massive fire ripped through Rio de Janeiro's treasured National Museum, one of Brazil's oldest, in what the nation's president says is a...
A fire ravages the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, a cultural jewel of Brazil
AFP | A huge fire devastated Sunday the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro, a disaster described as "tragedy for culture", but no victim has...
TV ads critical to Brazil’s presidential race
AFP | A huge election in Brazil is little over a month away and voter Domingo Souza says he knows little about who's running for...
A Venezuelan family’s desperate journey
AFP | On foot, by bus, on the backs of juddering trucks, like tens of thousands of others they slogged for days along the Pan-American...
Venezuelans flee home only to end up homeless in Brazil
AFP | The homeless Venezuelan woman in the Brazilian town of Boa Vista was once an operating theater assistant. And she once had dreams. But...
How the Venezuelan migration crisis affects South America
AFP | Venezuela has seen a mass exodus of citizens fleeing poverty, hyperinflation, failing public services and shortages of basic necessities. Here, AFP looks at how...