LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 22: Brazilian swimmer Joana Maranhao speaks to the media during a press conference at Crystal Palace on July 22, 2012 in London, England. (Photo Buda Mendes/LatinContent via ...

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Researchers at the Federal University of Maranhão, Brazil, have conducted a study suggesting that the state of Maranhão is well on its way to acquiring herd immunity to severe acute respiratory ...

On January 4, the capital of Maranhao, Brazil, suffered a wave of coordinated attacks on buses and police stations, ordered by a local prison gang. The death of a 6-year-old girl in the attacks, along ...

“We are waiting for specific institutions to collect and analyze the water so that we, along with 25 divers, can dive to retrieve the victims that are on the bed of the Tocantins river.” Authorities ...

Nearly every day, violence breaks out in a Brazilian prison. In January, the focus has been on the northeastern state of Maranhao, where orders issued from behind bars wreaked havoc in the streets of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article seeks to explain the breakdown of post-colonial order in the northern Brazilian province of Maranhão that culminated in the ...

Over half of Maranhão’s primary forest (around 220 hectares) was destroyed. Over 300 firefighters were called in to what has been called one of the biggest fire combat operations in the history of ...

Sao Luis became Brazil's first major city to mandate a complete lockdown on Tuesday amid growing fears health services across the nation could soon collapse under the pressure of the coronavirus ...

The Bumba Meu Boi cultural complex of the Brazilian state of Maranhão was hailed as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity, during a meeting in Bogota, Colombia, on Wednesday (Dec. 11). The ...

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