Descendants of slaves still suffer in Brazil
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PARACATU, Brazil  - Moacir de Mello's small farm is squeezed on one side by bulldozers belonging to a Canadian mining firm and on the other by a rancher trying to make him leave. "We're locked up like a pig in a sty," his wife says.
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BARQUISIMETO, Venezuela  - It was exactly what Brazilian fans, frustrated by their team's emphasis on efficiency and winning at all costs, had been longing to hear from their national team coach.
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Today, 27 million people are enslaved, more than at the height of the transatlantic slave trade.
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KIAMBAA, Kenya  - Even as Kenya Red Cross staff cleared the last of the bodies from the church's smoldering remains, traces of the massacre still haunted it.
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Brazil made progress in its ambitious plan to hand out land to poor peasants in 2004, but still fell short of goals aimed at narrowing chronic wealth inequality, government data released on Wednesday show.
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Descendants of a plantation's masters and slaves come together to recount history - and forge family bonds.
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Brazil is a largely pacifist country in South America. Our last war was fought against Paraguay in the 19th century, when we pretty much leveled the then enemy country, once the most developed in the region, today a haven for contrabandists and counterfeiters. There were also some internal conflicts througout brazilian history, a bloody conservative dictatorship in the 20th century - though not as bloody as in Argentina or Chile - and today we witness a daily struggle between police forces and drugs and arms dealers, robbers and the like in big cities. That said, most brazilians wouldn't ever imagine our country going to war nowadays. It's just... Not brazilian! The september 11 attacks on World Trade Center and the Pentagon were a shock for all of us, as it was for most people in the world. Everything stopped as we held our breath in front of our TV sets. Friends called each other asking "Did you see it? I can't believe!". Most people felt compassion for the dead, their families and all americans. On the other hand, many people did not.
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By Andrew Hay BRASILIA, Brazil  - Brazil made progress in itsambitious plan to hand out land to poor peasants in 2004, butstill fell short of goals aimed at narrowing chronic wealthinequality, government data released on Wednesday show.
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ANAPU, Brazil  - Thousands of Amazon peasants  flocked to the funeral of a U.S. nun on Tuesday and vented  outrage that Brazil's government has only acted to stem rising  violence in the rain forest after the murder of the renowned  foreign activist.
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A grade school dropout and ex-factory worker, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva vividly recalls his struggle to survive in Brazil's backwoods and urban squalor. Now, Silva hopes to lead a global crusade to help the world's needy.
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It is an old trick -- and one that has been used by Congolese musicians and soccer players in the past -- but it still angered many back home.
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By ALAN CLENDENNING SAO PAULO, Brazil - A Brazilian Indian tribe is linking up with Google Earth to try to capture vivid images that could help stop loggers and miners from deforesting the jungle and digging for gold on its vast Amazon reservation.
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More than 90 people in Brazil face possible charges after a two-year inquiry into money laundering.
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The English-speaking descendants of African slaves who inhabit the Caribbean island of San AndrÃ©s feel loyalty neither to Colombia nor to Nicaragua.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - With time running out, Nazi  hunters are making a new push to track down aging war criminals  still living in South America, a region notorious for opening  its doors to those responsible for the Holocaust.
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URENA, Venezuela  - Together with his children and  his parents, Luis shares a cramped shack built of tin sheets,  wood and plastic bags on dirt lot where there is no water  supply, no transport and little work.
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By GREG LANGLEY  No one who was a slave in the American South is still living. Yet the words of slaves will be heard again at Magnolia Mound Plantation today.