"The women show their bodies and it's their decision ... starting a new business - a carnival agency called Experience Carnival Rio to chaperone tourists to the Sambadrome and try to make ...

“I think that the tropical climate, the carnival and all this racial mixing gives the Brazilian woman a unique biotype on the planet,” pageant organizer Cacau Oliver, a well-known female ...

The Viradouro samba school has won Rio de Janeiro's hotly contested Carnival parade competition with its tribute to black women. Ricardo Moraes/Reuters Viradouro was the last samba school to ...