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FILE - Indigenous people painted with red ink representing spilled Indigenous blood and clay representing gold, protest against the increase of mining activities that are encroaching on their land, in front of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, in Brasilia, Brazil, April 11, 2022. Some of the world’s biggest mining companies have withdrawn requests for research and production in Indigenous territories of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, and have repudiated Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s efforts to legalize mining activity in the areas. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Mining companies back away from Brazil’s Indigenous areas

By Fabiano Maisonnave - Associated Press

Confetti showers former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and supporters after the announcement of his candidacy for the country’s upcoming presidential election, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Saturday, May 7, 2022. Brazil's general elections are scheduled for Oct. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil’s Lula courts centrists at unofficial campaign launch

By Mauricio Savarese and Débora Álvares - Associated Press

Supporters of Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro take part in a caravan of thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts who gathered in a show of support for him in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Friday, April 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Bolsonaro seeks to rev up his support with motorcycle rally

By Debora Alvares and Tatiana Pollastri - Associated Press

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, center, and his wife Michelle Bolsonaro, sing their nation's anthem during a ceremony next to departing cabinet members at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Cabinet ministers are leaving the administration en masse to help boost the president's reelection chances as they prepare to campaign for congressional seats and governorships. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil officials resign to seek new posts, boost Bolsonaro

By Debora Alvares and Diane Jeanete - Associated Press

In this Thursday, June 13, 2019, file photo, the website of the Telegram messaging app is seen on a computer's screen in Beijing. In early January 2021, encrypted messaging apps Signal and Telegram are seeing huge upticks in downloads from Apple and Google's app stores, while WhatsApp's growth is on the decline following a privacy fiasco where the company was forced to clarify a message it sent to users. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File) **FILE**

Brazilian justice lifts Telegram ban after orders met

By Debora Alvares - Associated Press

Residents and volunteers remove the body of a landslide victim in Petropolis, Brazil, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. Extremely heavy rains set off mudslides and floods in a mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro state, killing multiple people, authorities reported. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Brazil mudslides from torrential rains kill at least 38

By Diarlei Rodrigues - Associated Press

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro raises a "borduna," a traditional Indigenous weapon, outside Planalto presidential palace after receiving it as a gift from Indigenous people from various regions who support agro-business activities on Indigenous lands, in Brasilia, Brazil, Aug. 12, 2021. Bolsonaro has said that Indigenous people should be entitled to self-determination -- not just regarding possible mining, but all activities. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro issues decrees to boost mining of Amazon

By David Biller - Associated Press

A health worker gives a shot of the Johnson &amp; Johnson COVID-19 vaccine inside the Solidary Hands Shelter for the homeless in the poor neighborhood of Ceilandia in Brasilia, Brazil, June 29, 2021. Brazil's government started taking an online public survey on Dec. 24 to inform their decisions about whether and how to vaccinate children against the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)

Brazil seeks public opinion on child vaccinations

By Debora Alvares, Mauricio Savarese and Marcelo Silva de Sousa - Associated Press

Children learn the basics of golf from caddie Marcelo Modesto on the grounds of the Nusacquilombo cultural center in Cidade de Deus or City of God favela, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021. Modesto from one of Rio's poorest neighborhoods works at one of the seaside city's most exclusive golf courses, earning a comfortable living guiding wealthy patrons around the fairways and greens of the course. Now he is sharing his golf skills with kids from his favela. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo) **FILE**

Golf takes Brazilian kids from mean streets to putting greens

By Diarlei Rodrigues and Mauricio Savarese - Associated Press

Commuters wear protective face masks as they walk through a subway station, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Brazil joined the widening circle of countries to report cases of the omicron variant. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

Brazil justice rules vaccine passport mandatory for visitors

By MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA Marcelo Sila De Sousa - Associated Press

In this Nov. 25, 2019 file photo, highway BR-163 stretches between the Tapajos National Forest, left, and a soy field in Belterra, Para state, Brazil. The number of deforestation alerts in the Brazilian Amazon rose for the second straight month in October 2021, compared to 2020, ending a streak of encouraging data at a moment when the government has promised to curb illegal logging. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File) **FILE**

Brazil’s Amazon deforestation surges to worst in 15 years

By David Biller - Associated Press

Singer Marília Mendonça performs in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021. One of Brazil’s most popular singers and a Latin Grammy winner, Mendonca died on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021, in an airplane crash on her way to a concert. Mendonça was 26 and performed country music, in Brazil called sertanejo. (Will Dias/Futura Press via AP)

Latin Grammy winner, 26, dies in plane crash

By Mauricio Savarese - Associated Press

Relatives of Luis Enrique Rodriguez, who died of COVID-19, visit where he was buried on a hill at the El Pajonal de Cogua Natural Reserve, in Cogua, north of Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. Rodriguez died May 14, 2021. Relatives bury the ashes of their loved ones who died of coronavirus and plant a tree in their memory. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

COVID-19’s global death toll tops 5 million in under 2 years

By Carla K. Johnson - Associated Press

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro attends a ceremony on the National Day of People with Disabilities, at the Planalto presidential palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

‘Why a vaccine passport?’ Brazil’s president rips vaccination rules after missing soccer game

By Mauricio Savarese - Associated Press

Bags of coffee are on display at Vigilante Coffee, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021, in College Park, Md. A confluence of supply chain problems, drought, frost and inflation all point to the price of your cup of morning coffee going up. The tricky part is trying to figure when — and how much. A sustained drought followed by two July frosts blew a hole in Brazil's coffee output, sending futures contract prices for the popular Arabica bean to near seven-year highs. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Coffee lovers, get ready for a price spike

By Matt Ott - Associated Press