Julia opened the door a crack, saw Sandigo and then came out. Julia explained her husband had been detained days earlier while in a van with other immigrants on their way to a construction job.
Transgender women Negriny Venture, left, and Leticia Mamede prepare Carnival costumes for the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)Transgender woman Alessandra Salazary gets help from her boyfriend with her dress before hosting a Carnival contest show in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo
Transgender woman Alessandra Salazary gets help from her boyfriend with her dress before hosting a Carnival contest show in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia IzquierdoTransgender women Alessandra Salazary, left, and Ariela hug before a Carnival contest in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)Transgender women Alessandra Salazary, left, and Ariela hug before a Carnival contest in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Transgender woman Vanessa Alves, 60, practices before the start of a samba class for the Carnival parade at the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)Transgender woman Vanessa Alves, 60, practices before the start of a samba class for the Carnival parade at the Paraiso de Tuiuti samba school in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
The parade will feature other notable figures, including Brazil’s first trans lawmakers, Duda Salabert and Erika Hilton; Rio state lawmaker Dani Balbi and Bruna Benevides, who heads Brazil’s trans rights group Antra. Benevides identifies as “travesti,” a term referring to a specific Latin American identity that activists say is claimed by people assigned the male gender at birth, but who experience the female gender and should be treated as such. She and Tuiuti say Manicongo was likewise a travesti.
The specter of violence Manicongo faced five centuries ago hasn’t vanished.after Trump paused his tariffs on many countries, most notably China.
In the bond market, Treasury yields fell after swinging back and forth a few times. The yield on the 10-year Treasury eased to 4.51% from 4.54% late Thursday., in part on worries about how
to the U.S. government’s debt.In stock markets abroad, indexes were mixed in Asia, where markets closed before Trump issued his latest tariff threats. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 rose 0.5%, while stocks fell 0.9% in Shanghai.