Tag: Brazil
The Price of Fighting Land-grabbing in the Amazon Can Be Your Life
Maria Marcia Elpidia de Melo hasn’t seen her son Elmiro for more than six ...
In Brazil, History and Story Are the Same and Fake News Isn’t Fake
Fake news is the big news these days. We are being warned how pernicious ...
Trying to Please Trump, Brazil Approves Mass Deportation of Brazilians in the US
The U.S. government has again deported a planeload of Brazilians, the second such chartered ...
Indians To Sue Brazil President After He Says They’re Becoming More Human
The main organization representing Brazil’s 300 indigenous tribes announced it would sue Brazilian President ...
No Lesson Learned One Year after Brazil’s Catastrophic Dam Collapse with 270 Deaths
On Friday, January 25, 2019, most of Helena Taliberti’s family was swept away within ...
Offended to Be Called Enemy of the Free Press, Brazil President Vows to Give No More Interviews
A frequent and fiery critic of Brazil’s media, President Jair Bolsonaro declared he would ...
While World Demand for Slave-free Coffee Grows, Brazil Finds Ways to Cheat Consumers
As the coffee harvest drew to a close in the rolling hills of southeastern ...
Video Claims Responsibility for Firebombing Brazil Producer of Netflix’s Gay Jesus Special
A Christmas Eve fire-bomb attack on offices of a comedy troupe that produced a ...
US$ 30 Bi: The Cost to Replace the 8.4 Million Soccer Fields of Deforested Amazon Lost in Last Decade
This year, I was on the judging panel for the Royal Statistical Society’s International ...
Victims of Human Trafficking These Women Are Jailed in Brazil as Drug Mules
Helena had been struggling to provide for her six-year-old son in Africa’s island nation ...
