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From the archive: Did Brazil’s evangelical superstar have her husband killed?

4/17/2024 • 56 min

We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2021: Flordelis grew up in a Rio favela, but rose to fame after adopting more than 50 children, becoming a hugely successful gospel singer and winning a seat in congress. And now she is on trial for murder. By … Play episode

Rage, waste and corruption: how Covid changed politics
Disappearing tongues: the endangered language crisis
From the archive: The mystery of the Gatwick drone
‘What’s the worst that could happen?’: Love in the sickle cell capital of …
Radioactive waste, baby bottles and Spam: the deep ocean has become a dump…
From the archive – Out of thin air: the mystery of the man who fell from t…
200 cats, 200 dogs, one lab: the secrets of the pet food industry
Power grab: the hidden costs of Ireland’s datacentre boom
From the archive: ‘Is anybody in there?’ Life on the inside as a locked-in…
‘It was so wrong’: why were so many people imprisoned over one protest in …
What we talk about when we talk about giving up
From the archive – Operation Condor: the cold war conspiracy that terroris…
The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same
Electric mountain: the power station that shows the beauty of infrastructu…
From the archive: How western travel influencers got tangled up in Pakista…
‘Can I now send the funds?’: secrets of the Conservative money machine
‘Good times and dances might last for ever’: the sound of London’s Black g…
From the archive: ‘A chain of stupidity’: the Skripal case and the decline…
What the unrest in Leicester revealed about Britain – and Modi’s India
The Guardian’s new podcast series about AI: Black Box – prologue
Precipice of fear: the freerider who took skiing to its limits
From the archive: How maverick rewilders are trying to turn back the tide …
‘Farming is a dirty word now’: the woman helping farmers navigate a grim, …
‘Ukraine fatigue’: why I’m fighting to stop the world forgetting us
From the archive: Penthouses and poor doors: how Europe’s ‘biggest regener…
‘Scars on every street’: the refugee camp where generations of Palestinian…
‘They were dying, and they’d not had their money’: Britain’s multibillion-…
From the archive: The air conditioning trap: how cold air is heating the w…
Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten genius who changed British …
‘I repeatedly failed to win any awards’: my doomed career as a North Korea…
From the archive: From Lagos to Winchester – how a divisive Nigerian pasto…
‘Weapons of mass migration’: how states exploit the failure of migration p…
Sanctuary: I grew up during The Troubles and have been seeking a place of …
From the archive: The bells v the boutique hotel: the battle to save Brita…
One Swedish zoo, seven escaped chimpanzees
Days of the Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big bu…
From the archive: ‘I just needed to find my family’: the scandal of Chile’…
We have a tool to stop Israel’s war crimes: BDS
The ghosts haunting China’s cities
From the archive: Inside the bizarre, bungled raid on North Korea’s Madrid…
‘They treated me like an animal’: how Filipino domestic workers become tra…
America’s undying empire: why the decline of US power has been greatly exa…
From the archive: How Nespresso’s coffee revolution got ground down
Four bike rides, four years in the life of Black Britain: ‘On the road, we…
Too much stuff: can we solve our addiction to consumerism?
From the archive: Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming welln…
Last love: a romance in a care home
Best of 2023: The widow and the murderer: a friendship born of tragedy
Best of 2023: No coach, no agent, no ego: the incredible story of the ‘Lio…

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