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  "id": "us-travel-advisory:brazil",
  "slug": "brazil",
  "title": "Brazil travel advisory: Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution",
  "country": "Brazil",
  "level": 2,
  "level_label": "Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution",
  "level_name": "Exercise Increased Caution",
  "advisory": {
    "source_title": "Brazil - Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution",
    "source_url": "https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/brazil-travel-advisory.html",
    "source_updated_at": "2025-05-29",
    "source_identifier": "BR,advisory",
    "country_tag": "BR",
    "keywords": [
      "advisory"
    ],
    "source_note": "Updated to add risk indicator for kidnapping.",
    "summary": "Violent crime, including murder, armed robbery, and carjacking, can occur in urban areas, day and night. There was a kidnapping for ransom of U.S. travelers. Gang activity and organized crime are widespread and often tied to the recreational drug trade. Assaults, including with sedatives and drugs placed in drinks, are common, especially in Rio de Janeiro. Criminals target foreigners through dating apps or at bars before drugging and robbing their victims. U.S. government employees are advised not to use municipal buses in Brazil because of a serious risk of robbery and assault, especially at night.",
    "summary_truncated": false
  },
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    {
      "observed_at": "2026-09-10T23:02:54+00:00",
      "level": 2,
      "level_label": "Level 2: Exercise Increased Caution",
      "source_updated_at": "2025-05-29",
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  "official_url": "https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/brazil-travel-advisory.html",
  "source_name": "U.S. Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs and CDC Travelers' Health",
  "sources": [
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      "name": "U.S. Department of State travel advisories",
      "url": "https://travel.state.gov/_res/rss/TAsTWs.xml",
      "rights_url": "https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/copyright-disclaimer.html"
    },
    {
      "name": "CDC Travelers' Health notices",
      "url": "https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/rss/notices.xml",
      "rights_url": "https://www.cdc.gov/other/information.html"
    }
  ],
  "source_updated_at": "2026-09-10",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-09-10T23:03:54+00:00",
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    "sub_national_levels": "The official advisory may assign different levels to regions inside the destination. CiteFacts publishes the country-level line only; read the linked advisory for regional detail.",
    "level_history_before_observation": "The source feed carries only the current advisory. Levels before CiteFacts' first validated observation are unknown, not assumed unchanged.",
    "cdc_destination_coverage": "CDC notices are matched by destination names in the notice title. A CDC destination page may list additional destinations; global and regional notices are listed on the family index, not attached here.",
    "cdc_notices": "No current CDC travel health notice names this destination in its title. This is not a statement that no health risk exists."
  },
  "derivations": {
    "level": "Parsed from the State Department item title and confirmed against its Threat-Level category when present.",
    "cdc_notices": "CDC notices whose normalized title contains this destination's name or a documented alias as whole words, after masking longer destination names.",
    "cdc_highest_level": "Maximum CDC notice level among matched notices; null when none matched.",
    "observed_level_history": "Daily validated observations retained by CiteFacts. The first row per destination is a baseline; only later rows with a different level are observed changes.",
    "title": "Destination name plus the source level label; not editorial judgment."
  }
}