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Beatriz Miranda

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Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo
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Journalist from Brazil. Brazilian culture stories for @nytimes @washingtonpost @guardian @bbc @vice @billboard and elsewhere. Co-editor at Meia Volta.

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Beatriz Miranda’s Biography

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Journalist and International Relations graduate from Brazil.

Co-editor at Meia Volta.

Former music critic at theshfl.com

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Beatriz Miranda’s Journalist Portfolio

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'Agriculture of life': the Rio families growing bananas to protect the world's largest urban fore...

'Agriculture of life': the Rio families growing bananas to protect the world's largest urban fore...

In the middle of the city, traditional growers blend crops with native species to preserve the world's larges…

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Ecology As an Artistic Act

Ecology As an Artistic Act

In the encounter of two Brazilian biomes, an art school is seeding a greener future. Placing ecology, communa…

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In Brazil's 'water tank', communities resist mining to preserve their water and livelihoods

In Brazil's 'water tank', communities resist mining to preserve their water and livelihoods

SERRO, Minas Gerais - Nature has always been intrinsic to life in Queimadas, a quilombo community located in …

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'This janitor's daughter became a state deputy': Leci Brandão, the Brazilian samba star turned co...

'This janitor's daughter became a state deputy': Leci Brandão, the Brazilian samba star turned co...

Born in poverty, Brandão became a socially conscious samba singer who satirised Rio's bourgeoisie - then a po…

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How Brazilian Women Challenged Slavery and Patriarchy Through Food

How Brazilian Women Challenged Slavery and Patriarchy Through Food

In Brazil, quitanda goes beyond the kitchen. Before the dish became a local culinary symbol, it helped fuel a…

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'We can't hunt or fish': the villages in Ecuador's Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives

'We can't hunt or fish': the villages in Ecuador's Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives

In 2002, high explosives were laid in oil wells across 20 sq km of forest. The firm has gone but the pentolit…

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Articles

Santo Domingo Hosts Central American and Caribbean Games Through August 8

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By Beatriz Miranda Verified
| The Rio Times Verified
Sports · Dominican Republic Key Facts —The event. The 25th Central American and Caribbean Games are taking place in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. —The dates. The Games run from July 24 to August 8, 2026. —The scale. More than 6,000 athletes compete across 40 sports and about 57 disciplines. —The field. Thirty-seven member delegations are taking part. —The milestone. The edition marks the 100th anniversary of the Games, first held in 1926.
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Colombia’s Flower Growers Fight New US Tariff as Duty Hits 12.5%

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By Beatriz Miranda Verified
| The Rio Times Verified
Trade · Colombia Key Facts —The tariff. A US duty on a set of Colombian products rose from 10% to 12.5% on July 24, 2026. —The sector. Cut flowers are among the goods affected, alongside some apparel, foods and cosmetics. —The exposure. In 2025 the United States took about 80% of Colombia’s flower exports by value. —The jobs. Colombia’s floriculture industry sustains roughly 130,000 jobs, most held by women. —The cost.
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‘We can’t hunt or fish’: the villages in Ecuador’s Amazon surrounded by abandoned explosives

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| AOL UK Verified
The Amazon rainforest near Sarayakillo. Nature has similar legal rights to humans under Ecuador’s constitution. Photograph: Watachik Living on the banks of the Bobonaza River, in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the Indigenous communities in Sarayaku have always lived in harmony with nature. The rainforest, says Patricia Gualinga, is a sacred, conscious being.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Reporter at The Rio Times.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Unfortunately not.

How is social media changing news?

The polyphony and the new space-time relation are challenging the old monopoly of information.