Nilson Garrido, the former professional boxer from Brazil, established this gym practically out of nothing under the Alcantara Machado viaduct in Sao Paulo. All the equipment was bought through donations. The man’s intention was to get young people out of drugs and crimes through sports. Today more than a hundred people, most of whom have financial troubles, come here free of charge for the daily workout.

This place known as Lencois Maranhenses National Park is magical. It’s one of the most popular natural attractions in Brazil. It is formed of white sand dunes covering 383,000 acres and it reminds of bedsheets spread out on the coast. It is extremely beautiful here.

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The President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff makes the chief Raoni burst into tears by approving the Belo Monte dam construction that will destroy 400,000 hectares of forest in the Amazon area and expel 40,000 people of indigenous communities.

This is the Lencois Maranhenses National Park. It is located in northeastern Brazil in the state of Maranhao. It has many large sand dunes that occasionally flood but is very flat and low. In spite of rain that is abundant there is practically no vegetation. However, it does have beautiful green lagoons. The park was created on June 2, 1981.

An aerial view of million of revelers during the "Galo da Madrugada"parade (Rooster of the Morning) in Recife, in the northern coastal state of Pernambuco, Brazil.

These photographs were obtained by Survival International show uncontacted Indians in detail. This tribe lives in Brazil, near the Peruvian border. It was featured in the “Jungles” episode of BBC1’s “Human Planet” in the United Kingdom.

The strong storm that hit the state of Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday (11) left hundreds dead and thousands of homeless survivors and displaced people, mainly in the mountainous region. The cityes of Nova Friburgo, Teresopolis and Petrópolis were most affected. Services such as water, electricity and telephone were stopped, roads were blocked, bridges collapsed and were isolated neighborhoods.

Where would Brazilian drug dealers hide? They would hole up in the most dangerous slums in Rio. This was what Rio de Janeiro policemen reported. So they held a raid on the shantytown of Alemao after they asked drug traffickers to surrender who, of course, refused to give in. Nearly 200 people have been arrested or detained, and more than 96 buses and cars have been burned during this operation in Rio de Janeiro, the city that will host the final match of the 2014 World Cup as well as the 2016 Olympics. Inside this post, you can see the photographs that show the operation itself, the reaction of local residents on a drug war and a house of an alleged drug trafficker that looks luxurious compared to ordinary buildings in the Brazilian favelas.

Actually it’s more like a brawl. The game was between China and Brazil. Apparently the brawl broke out when the Chinese coach called a foul. That was enough to clear both teams benches and the fists started flying. China eventually apologized over the incident.

Google Street View allows us seeing what's going on on the streets in different countries. These curious images come from Brazil. Take a look at the pictures before Google has deleted some of them.

This is the day-to-day reality in Rio de Janeiro.