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A housewife at her kitchen in a Rio de Janeiro favela

A Personal Account of a Rio Favela Resident on His Dealing with Coronavirus

This report from Vila Autódromo is the first in a series by favela residents ...

A nurse wearing a mask

Brazil Was Ready for Bad Weather. With Coronavirus It Got the Perfect Storm

April would have been a busy month for Brazilian hospitals anyway. As the population ...

Quarantine may not be fun for everybody

Getting Comfy with Covid-19 in Brazil

I’ve been having an unusual number of birthdays, several a day in fact. It ...

Pataxó Indian from the village Nao Xoha, in Minas Gerais state, Brazil - Washington Alves/Reuters

Amazon Indians’ Doctor with Coronavirus Brings Fear of an Extermination

A doctor working with the largest tribe in the Amazon has tested positive for ...

A signboard with the figure of Jair Bolsonaro and the inscription "Hysteria hurts economy" over him.

Brazil President Keeps Churches Open and Calls Governors Criminals for Imposing Lockdowns

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro blasted as criminals the governors and mayors of Brazil’s largest ...

Cuban doctor Raymond Garcia in Brazil

Cuban Doctors in Brazil Waiting for a Chance to Treat Coronavirus

Raymond Garcia has experience with epidemics. First he treated cholera in Haiti. He battled ...

Waiãpi indigenous children in Amapá state, Brazil. Image by Sam Cowie/Mongabay.

Amazon Indians Fear Coronavirus Amid a Campaign to Convert Them to Christianity

Indigenous leaders in Brazil are acting to avert the devastating impact coronavirus could have ...

Venezuelan kids wait for a meal at a migrant shelter in Boa Vista, Roraima state, Brazil - Eraldo Peres/AP

Brazil Teaches the World How to Be Humane to Refugees

The global north tends to view the global south as a source of refugees, ...

Burning the trees to raise cattle in the Brazilian Amazon

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 ...