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A demonstrator with the Brazilian flag protests against the Confederation's Cup and the government of Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff in Brasilia, on June 17, 2013.
AP / Nelson Antoine
A demonstrator shouts during protests in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, June 17, 2013.
Brazilian Health Ministry
Brazil's anti-STD campaign poster on International Prostitute Day: "I am happy being a prostitute"
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Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff holds the Caxirola, a musical instrument to be used at the 2014 Brazil World Cup created by artist Carlinhos Brown, during the opening of Brown's "O Olhar Que Ouve" exhibition at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia on April 23, 2013.
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Drivers pass through deforested land along federal highway BR-222 on June 9, 2012 in Para state, Brazil. Highway construction through Amazonian rainforest has led to accelerated rates of deforestation. Although deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is down 80 percent since 2004, environmentalists fear recent changes to the Forest Code will lead to further destruction.
Twelve-year-old Flavio da Silva, Brazil, 1961. See the gallery, “A Fierce and Tender Eye: Gordon Parks on Poverty’s Dire Toll.”
Twelve-year-old Flavio da Silva, Brazil, 1961. See the gallery, "A Fierce and Tender Eye: Gordon Parks on Poverty’s Dire Toll."
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An 11-year-old boy works at a makeshift mine in Icabarú, near Venezuela's border with Brazil on July 6, 212. The child works on a team with five other children, only slightly older than him, and his father who said simply, "He has to work."
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Vitalmiro Moura, center, arrives to a court in Belem, Brazil, Wednesday, March 31, 2010. A Brazilian court has delayed the trial of Moura, the rancher accused of ordering the murder of U.S. nun and Amazon defender Dorothy Stang, due to the defense says it needs more time to study appeal options.
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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, kisses Corina Edelvina Bento as she receives the keys to her new home during the inauguration ceremony of a government-built housing complex at the Complexo do Alemao slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Nov. 1, 2010 - Brasilia, DF, Brazil - Dilma Rousseff, elected President of Brazil by ruling Workers' Party, leaves her house to be interviewed at Record TV studios, in Brasilia, center-western Brazil, on November 1st, 2010. Dilma won the run-off election with 56%, against 44% of the opponent candidate Jose Serra, of Brazilian Social Democracy Party. She will takes office on January 1st, 2011.
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Brazil's Alan Fonteles Cardoso Oliveira, left, runs in to win the gold medal and beat South Africa's Oscar Pistorius, who took the silver medal in the men's 200m T44 category final during the athletics competition at the 2012 Paralympics, Sept. 2, 2012.
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Brazil's Alan Oliveira, left, finishes first to win the gold medal and beat South Africa's Oscar Pistorius in the men's 200-m T44-category final at the 2012 Paralympics in London on Sept. 2, 2012
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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva talks with the media at the Alvorada palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on Monday, Oct 2, 2006.
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Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Jan. 24, 2012.
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Believers with flags attend the mass celebrated by Benedict XVI to canonise Friar Galvao (1739-1822), the first Brazilian-born saint, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 11, 2007. Around half a million Catholics attended the service.
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U.S. President George W. Bush embraces Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva after a news conference at the Hilton hotel in Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 9, 2007.
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Dilma Rousseff, presidential candidate for the Workers Party, is greeted by supporters after voting during Brazil's presidential election runoff in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2010
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Brazil's Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife
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Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff speaks in Buenos Aires on Jan. 31, 2011
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Brazil's Workers Party presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff, left, and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wave to supporters during a campaign rally
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Brazil's Michel Bastos heads a soccer ball during team training at the Randburg High School in Johannesburg
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Brazil's soccer team: The country produces superb players but has trouble keeping to a construction schedule for World Cup 2014 stadiums
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Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (left) Rio 2016 bid President Carlos Arthur Nuzman (center) and Brazilian soccer great Pele (right) celebrate in Cophenhagen after it was announced that Rio de Janeiro has will host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.
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Brazil's Rivaldo feigns injury, leading to the sending off of Turkey's Hakan Unsal during a match in the 2002 World Cup
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Brazil's Navy sailors recover debris from the missing Air France jet at the Atlantic Ocean, Monday, June 8, 2009.
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Brazil makes jets as well as bikinis.
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Brazil has been awarded the right to host the 2014 soccer World Cup after a FIFA executive committee meeting on Tuesday in Zurich.
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Referee Felipe Ramos Riso sends off Brazil's Ronaldinho
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Tony Kanaan of Brazil, driver of the Hydroxycut KV Racing Technology-SH Racing Chevrolet, celebrates in victory lane after he won the IZOD IndyCar Series 97th running of the Indianpolis 500 mile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 26, 2013 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Brazil's third baseman Leonardo Reginatto throws the ball while Chinese batter Chu Fujia runs to the first base during the eighth inning of their first-round Pool A game in the World Baseball Classic tournament in Fukuoka on March 5, 2013. China beat Brazil 5-2.
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Brazil's third baseman Leonardo Reginatto throws the ball while Chinese batter Chu Fujia runs to the first base during the eighth inning of their first-round Pool A game in the World Baseball Classic tournament in Fukuoka on March 5, 2013. China beat Brazil 5-2.
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The Joao Havelange stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 27, 2013.
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Prostitutes work in the Copacabana neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 15, 2007 in advance of the Pan American Games.
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Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the country's first three-person union has been sanctioned.
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Kaka of Brazil reacts in lament after missing a goal
Andre Penner / AP
Sao Paulo, Brazil, was plunged into a massive blackout when the Itaipu hydroelectric dam went offline
Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres arrives to meet Brazil's Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota at the Itamaraty palace in Brasilia August 2, 2011
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Flamengo's Bruno Souza (C) is escorted by police as he arrives at a police station in Rio de Janeiro July 7, 2010. Bruno, the goalkeeper of Brazil's most popular soccer team, surrendered to police probing the disappearance and possible murder of his ex-girlfriend.
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Deforestation in the Amazon, Brazil
Felipe Dana / AP
People buy soccer balls painted with Brazil national soccer squad's color in Rio de Janeiro.
Nabor Goulart / AP
An effigy of George W. Bush is burned in Porto Alegre, Brazil, March 8, 2007. President Bush will visit Brazil on March 8-9.
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Rainforest in Brazil.
Jorge Saenz / AP
Governing-party candidate Dilma Rousseff, center, was elected Brazil's President, becoming the nation's first female leader, and will take office Jan. 1
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Brazil's Ronaldo celebrates after his game-winning goal against Turkey
Ricardo Moraes / Reuters
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Eraldo Peres / AP
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, and Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wave to journalists at the Itamaraty palace in Brasilia
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A single-family-home housing project in Campo Verde, Brazil
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People dance after drinking ayahuasca in Amazonas, Brazil
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A jaguar walking on a tree limb in Brazil
Paulo Whitaker / Reuters
A traffic jam in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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TIME correspondent Andrew Downie celebrates Robert Burns Day in Brazil.
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A deforested area of rain forest in southern Para state, Brazil
Reuters
Ronnie Biggs, the "Great Train Robber," in Brazil in 1992, has been granted release from his prison sentence on compassionate grounds
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Traders at the BM&F Bovespa Stock Exchange in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Oct. 10
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Aerial view of the Amazon forest next to Manaus, Brazil.
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Pope Benedict XVI waves to the crowd during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, May 2, 2007. The Pope urged prayers of support for his trip to Brazil next week, his first pilgrimage to Latin America.
Marcelo Hernandez / AP
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez during a meeting in Brasília, Brazil, Friday, May 23, 2008.
Cia de Foto for TIME
Vale's iron-ore mine in São Gonçalo do Rio Abaixo, Brazil, is one of the world’s largest
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva inside the cockpit of Brazil's Air Force Mirage 2000-C aircraft at the Anapolis Air Base.
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Father Marcelo Rossi, during a Mass in Sao Paolo, Brazil
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Stock market operators negotiate trades in Sao Paulo, Brazil
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An aircraft lands at the Congonhas domestic airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 2, 2007.
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Kerri Walsh and Misty May of the U.S. celebrate after beating Brazil in the gold medal beach volleyball finals Tuesday
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Rivaldo prepares to fire the best shot of the tournament in Brazil's second-round win over Belgium
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A Japanese soccer fan dives into Doton-bori river to celebrate Japan's qualification for the World Cup finals in Brazil, after the 2014 World Cup qualifying soccer match against Australia, in Osaka, western Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo June 4, 2013. Asian champions Japan became the first side to qualify for the World Cup finals in Brazil when playmaker Keisuke Honda scored an injury-time penalty to claim a 1-1 draw with Australia in Saitama on Tuesday.
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Locals help evacuate injured people after a fire at Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria,, Brazil, Jan. 27, 2013.
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Relatives of victims from a fire that broke out at Kiss nightclub weep during their funeral in Santa Maria, Brazil, Jan. 27, 2013.
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The relative of a victim of the the Boate Kiss nightclub fire mourns over a coffin in Santa Maria, Brazil, Jan. 27, 2013.
Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters
Congressman Henrique Alves (2nd R) reacts as he is congratulated by other congressmen after he was elected the new president of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies at the National Congress in Brasilia February 4, 2013.
Nabor Goulart / AP
A woman cries over the coffin of her boyfriend at a gymnasium where bodies were brought for identification in Santa Maria, Brazil, Jan. 27, 2013.
Felipe Dana / AP
A man stands around coffins containing the remains of victims after the bodies were identified at a gymnasium in Santa Maria city, Brazil, Jan. 27, 2013.
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The corcovado mountain with the jesus statue and the sugar loaf in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters
Former Brazilian national soccer player Ronaldo is hugged by Fuleco, the mascot of the 2014 FIFA soccer world championships in Brazil, during the Ballon d'Or 2012 Gala in Zurich on January 7, 2013.
Felipe Dana / AP
An activist burns a Brazilian map as he protests during the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro on Monday June 18, 2012. Activists protested against the regression of Brazil's environmental policies during President Rousseff's government, including the Belo Monte Hydroelectric power plant construction, and the new Forest Code.
Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters
September 18, 2011. Participants march during the Gay Pride Parade in Brasilia. Some 45,000 people took part in the annual parade making it second largest gay pride march in Brazil.
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Power shovels remove rubble from the collapsed buildings in downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on January 26, 2012.
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A female Bengal tiger in her cage at the zoo of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 29, 2011
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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva raises the arm of Dilma Rousseff, his former Chief of Staff and presidential candidate for the ruling Workers Party (PT), upon their arrival for a campaign rally in Campinas on September 18, 2010. Brazil's general elections are scheduled for October 3.
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U.S. striker Abby Wambach celebrates after scoring a goal during the quarterfinal Women's World Cup match against Brazil in Dresden, Germany, on July 10, 2011
Shana Reis / Reuters
A neighborhood is partially destroyed by a landslide caused by heavy rains in Nova Friburgo, Brazil
Eraldo Peres / AP
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, waves as he stands with Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the Itamaraty palace in Brasilia, Nov. 23, 2009
AP / Nelson Antoine
A man walks through a flooded street after heavy rains in Barra Funda, Sao Paulo, Brazil
AP
Police move a bag containing a body into a vehicle after a school shooting in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
AP
An identity card allegedly used by Josef Mengele, who apparently went by the name Wolfgang Gerhard in Brazil.
Andre Penner / AP
A police officer takes his position as others frisk suspects in Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 2006.
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Philip Dalhausser of the United States blocks a shot from Fabio Magalhaes of Brazil during the gold medal beach volleyball game.
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A view of Igreja da Ordem Terceira de Sao Francisco in Salvador, Brazil.
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A woman visits a store at the 8th Erotika Fair in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Presidential candidate Dilma Rousseff of the Workers' Party speaks during an election campaign rally in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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A gas station attendant fills a car with ethanol in Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 3, 2007.
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THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE: Lula meets the residents of a favela in northern Brazil
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Pope Benedict XVI in Aparecida do Norte, some 180 km north of Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 2007.
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Workers inspect a bus burned during an attack by armed gangs in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on December 28, 2006.
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Amazonas State legislator and television show host Wallace Souza, center, speaks during a news conference in Manaus, Brazil.
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The actor Rui Ricardo Dias plays President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Fabio Barreto's film Lula, Son of Brazil
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FOOTBAWLER: Midfielder Hidetoshi Nakata endures the misery of defeat after a 4-1 thrashing by Brazil knocks Japan out of the Cup
Paulo Fridman for TIME
Students converse in an Industrial Management class at Zanzini Furniture Factory in Dois Corregos, Sao Paulo, Brazil on March 27, 2007.
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A policewoman holds her pistol as she conducts a preventive checkpoint at Higienopolis neighborhood, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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LONG HAUL: The owner of Top Model loans women money to move to Braganca from Brazil
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