The parade, scheduled for Tuesday night, four days after Carnival officially kicks off, is the creation of Paraiso do Tuiuti, one of Rio's 12 top-flight samba schools competing in the iconic ...

Rio Carnival is one of the biggest, boldest and brightest events in the Brazilian calendar ... There are three nights of samba competitions on 2, 3, and 4 March running from 10pm until around ...

Subtle hand signs coordinate the hundreds of pounding drummers in each of Rio ... Carnival parades in Rio de Janeiro. The roughly 70,000 spectators filling the bleachers each of the three nights ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP ... is a mixture of “bloco,” which means Carnival street party, and “cao,” or dog in Portuguese. It is one of the few events that challenged a city ban on street ...

The survey covers the period from March 1 to 4 as Rio’s Carnival has grown into ... million revelers are expected to attend various Carnival events, including associations’ performances ...

A Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro will present the story of a trans woman nearly burned at the stake in the 16th century as a means to spotlight trans people’s struggle in Brazil, where more of them ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro will present the story of a trans woman nearly burned at the stake in the 16th century, highlighting the ongoing violence against ...