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What the World Can Learn from a Moribund Liberation Theology
This June saw the passing of two of our generation’s most fascinating and controversial ...
Amazon Forest’s Keepers Under Pressure of Ranchers Fear for Their Future
In western Brazil’s Amazon, the people tasked with looking after the world’s greatest rainforest ...
Two Years After Brazil’s Dam Tragedy, Those Responsible For It Are Still Being Cheered
The worst environmental tragedy in Brazil’s history occurred on the fifth of November, 2015. ...
São Paulo’s Mayor Finds a Solution for Malnutrition in Schools: Human Pet Food
Brazilian prosecutors are probing a plan proposed by São Paulo Mayor João Doria that ...
New Labor Rules Will Make Slave Work Still More Common in Brazil
Victims of slave labor in Brazil are less likely to be rescued following a ...
Tired of Being Denied Territory, Amazon Peoples Are Drawing Their Own Maps
In 1707, a Jesuit missionary from the Czech Republic named Samuel Fritz published one ...
Trying to Understand Brazilians? Start by Their Memes
You have probably already stumbled upon a Brazilian meme on one of your internet ...
The Streets Clamored for It, But Brazilian Congress Is Bungling the Electoral Reform
Brazil’s Congress is rushing to approve a series of legislative reforms to update the ...
The Case to Legalize Abortion in Brazil While Congress Tries to Ban It
I met “Mariana,” a 20-year-old Brazilian woman, in Paraíba state, almost a year ago ...
A Brazilian Landless Movement’s Leader Talks About the MST’s Mistakes, Challenges and Plans
During the 1960s, legend has it that governor José Sarney sat down at a ...
