Jeff Nitty Ransom, 68, is a Black expat in São Paulo, Brazil. Living in the largest city in South America since 1991, his story began after he met Fatima, his Brazilian ex-wife, in Miami. Two years ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marketing executive Ike Okonkwo is a Black expat in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Before living ...

- The key risk: Foreigners may become Brazilian tax residents and face reporting obligations beyond local salary. - The income issue: Brazilian tax residency can affect worldwide income, investments ...

- The first rule: Safety in Brazil is local; one neighborhood can be comfortable while another nearby area feels very different. - The phone rule: Street phone habits matter more than many foreigners ...

There is a joke among Brazilians that a Brazilian passport is the most coveted on the black market because no matter what your background — Asian, African or European — you can fit in here. But the ...

In Brazil's presidential elections, the liberal challenger known as Lula narrowly defeated right-wing incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro, capping a stunning turnaround for a man who just three years ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In 1979, at the age of twenty-eight, Stephen G. Bloom set out to Rio de Janeiro to work as a foreign correspondent for the Latin ...

CALGARY/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian criminal charges against energy industry employees over an oil spill have made foreign workers leery of new legal risks, but so far concerns seem to be ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil — It just made sense to be in South America's economic heart, Jonathan Rosenthal reasoned, no matter that he had been working on Wall Street with some of the investment world's most ...

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