Dancing and debauchery peppered with more sombre moments, including defiant tributes to murdered British journalist and Brazilian Indigenous expert
Perched atop 35-inch stilts and wearing an antler headpiece, Liana Barros held up her carnival costume’s pièce de résistance: a banner bearing tribute to the British journalist Dom Phillips and the Brazilian Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who were murdered in the Amazon last year.
The banner fluttered among other standards honouring figures such as the assassinated Amazon defender Chico Mendes, as Barros, a 50-year-old civil servant, paraded with the Terreirada, a visually striking bloco (a musical troupe that leads street parties) celebrating Brazilian folklore.
