RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — English speakers get their moment in the Carnival sun on Monday as a wild, Beatles-themed street party shakes it up, baby, with a samba swing to “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.”

“Sargento Pimenta,” Portuguese for “Sergeant Pepper,” is

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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — “Brazil is not for beginners,” the late, great Brazilian composer Tom Jobim once quipped. Nowhere does the remark hold more true than for the country’s pulsing, chaotic oceanfront metropolis, Rio de Janeiro.

This is

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