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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Brazil’s Xingu river most often makes headlines because of the controversial Belo Monte dam, a hydropower ...

Xingu National Park, created in 1961 and home to several indigenous tribes, is a protected wilderness area and reserve deep in the heart of Brazil. In the mid-20th century, tribes along the Xingu ...

Soon start to lead the expedition that opens new paths 1,500 km, navigates over 1,000 miles of unspoilt rivers, opens 19 airfields for airplanes Army, gives rise to the creation of 43 towns and 14 ...

Hope and betrayal are at the core of “Xingu,” a remarkable, fact-based docudrama from Brazil about government greed, indigenous rights and the poor souls caught between those extremes. The title ...

Two British explorers have completed a gruelling six-month expedition down 2,500 kilometres (1,550 miles) of the Xingu river through the Cerrado savannahlands and rainforest in the heart of Brazil.