ARTICLES BY TATIANA POLLASTRI

Brazilian women head to Argentina to avoid abortion ban

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — With her 21st birthday fast approaching, Sara left the home she shares with her mother for her first trip on a plane. She didn’t tell her family the real reason she’d taken out a loan for 5,000 Brazilian reais ($1,000).
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

In Brazil's richest city, works to clean a filthy river

SAO PAULO (AP) — The Pinheiros River that runs through the heart of Sao Paulo makes its pollution known with a miasma that wafts across city streets, choking rich and poor alike. It’s an unwelcome feature of the city that is also Brazil’s wealthiest and the financial heart of Latin …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Brazil Catholics drawn to worship despite downsized services

APARECIDA, Brazil (AP) — Inside, there was nothing massive about the Mass: Just 1,000 people were spaced carefully across the pews of a vast basilica that normally holds 35,000 as the Roman Catholic Church tried to protect parishioners from the COVID-19 pandemic.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Brazil’s poor squeezed by less virus aid, surging food costs

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Many people in Brazil are struggling to cope with less pandemic aid from the government and jumping food prices, with millions expected to slip back into poverty.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Brazil’s poor squeezed by less virus aid, surging food costs

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Many people in Brazil are struggling to cope with less pandemic aid from the government and jumping food prices, with millions expected to slip back into poverty.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Brazil’s poor squeezed by less virus aid, surging food costs

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Many people in Brazil are struggling to cope with less pandemic aid from the government and jumping food prices, with millions expected to slip back into poverty.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

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