Brazil's top telenovelas: Who's who in Brazilian soap operas Some of Brazil's most popular and exotic soap operas. By Andrew Downie in Sao Paulo 04 April 2009 • 7:59pm ...

Story Highlights Soap operas, known as telenovelas, encourage smaller families study finds Birth rates in Brazil have fallen dramatically since the 1970s Divorce and taboo health conditions are ...

A population boom in the developing world threatens to devour the world's resources. The telenovela can help.

Lázaro Ramos (l.) is the first black lead in a Brazilian soap opera. The actress is Camila Pitanga, arguably Brazil's most wanted, best looking, most stylish, who plays his love interest on the ...

SAO PAULO, Brazil — It has the glamour, betrayal and thin plot of any soap opera, but the activist tone of “Aruanas,” the latest drama to sweep Brazil, is undeniable. The producers of the ...

Brazil's racy telenovelas inspire drop in birth rate, rise in divorce Brazil's popular soap operas have done more than just entertain people - they have reduced the birthrate by 3 million and ...

Soap opera social engineering In Brazil, the data suggests that prime-time programming contributed to a national decline in fertility rates.

The soap opera, or telenovela, holds cultural power like nothing else in Brazil. And no other timeslot holds the prestige of the 9 p.m. telenovela at Globo's free-to-air channel, the television ...

Since then, Brazil has witnessed a growing atmosphere of love between the characters - discreet, but not unnoticeable. It is not the first time that this scenario has cropped up in a telenovela in ...

The soap opera, or telenovela, holds cultural power like nothing else in Brazil. And no other timeslot holds the prestige of the 9 p.m. telenovela at Globo’s free-to-air channel, the television ...

The soap opera, or telenovela, holds cultural power like nothing else in Brazil. And no other timeslot holds the prestige of the 9 p.m. telenovela at Globo’s free-to-air channel, the television ...