22 October 1968, São José dos Campos, São Paulo. On a runway carved out of the Paraíba Valley, a small, stubby twin-turboprop with a painted Brazilian flag on its tail starts its engines. It has no fa...
20 December 1930, Tapajós River, Pará. In the workers’ cafeteria of the strangest town in Brazil, an argument breaks out between a supervisor, Kaj Ostenfeld, and a brick mason, Manuel Caetano. W...
June 18, 1908. On this day, the first ship carrying Japanese immigrants to work on the country’s coffee plantations docked at the port of Santos. On this ship, 781 people arrived. They would be ...