The holiday marks the anniversary of the death of Zumbi, a key figure in Black resistance to slavery in Brazil and a leader of the Palmares quilombo, an independent community of people who escaped ...

one of the largest in Brazil during the colonial period of resistance against black enslavement. Currently, the date is only a holiday in six states: Mato Grosso, Rio de Janeiro, Alagoas ...

Elon Musk has told staff not to go on holiday to Brazil amid an escalating row with the country following a ban on his social media company X. Workers at Mr Musk’s space company SpaceX were ...