Classic ads boasted that a Timex watch “takes a licking and keeps on ticking.” That’s a pretty good summary of the past 18 months at The Tico Times. Somehow this little paper, now in its 63rd year, ...

Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro, a longtime climate-change skeptic, has named a rightist lawyer with a contentious background to be environment minister in the country whose Amazon rainforest ...

Then we hear from Brazilian flutist Tadeu Coelho, who talks with host Fred Child about some inherent rhythmic features of Brazilian music. The flute professor at the North Carolina School of the Arts ...