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The Killing Fields of Brazil: 61 Murdered Last Year Fighting for Their Land
A year after witnessing the murder of his friend by a gang of farmers ...
A New Brazilian Pastime: Watching the Virtual Wake of Perfect Strangers
Progress in communication technology has transformed our lives in the 21st century. It has ...
São Paulo Destroys Crackland and Offers Instead Forced Hospitalization for Drug Addicts
On May 21, 500 civil and military police descended on the downtown São Paulo ...
São Paulo’s Gay Parade Gets Political and Wages War Against Religious Fundamentalists
The world’s largest pride parade kicked off Sunday in São Paulo, Brazil, in a ...
While Brazilians Represent 3% of the World Population, They Commit 10% of the Murders
In just three weeks in 2015, Brazil had more homicides than all of the ...
How Crooks Log, Mine, Enslave and Get Rich in the Brazilian Amazon
The Amazon is the sort of wild place where you often go looking for ...
13 Years Later, After Contributing 37,000 Troops, Brazil Is Ready to Leave Haiti
After 13 years of operations and numerous announcements about the closure date, the Brazilian ...
Brazil Keeps Fining Pedro Cordeiro, a Crook and Land-grabber. But Does He Even Exist?
In April 2017, Brazilian environmental agents fined Pedro Cordeiro US$ 9.2 million for converting ...
Made in Germany, Chocolate Brings Jobs and Helps Preserve the Amazon
With a cigarette in one hand and a muddy machete in the other, Brazilian ...
Brazil’s Corruption? This Is Small Change. The Real Problem Are the 60,000 Killed a Year
Somewhere between outraged and perplexed, Brazilians have been bombarded with news about their political ...
