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Brazilian army in a Rio favela - ABr

Can’t Maintain Order? In Brazil They Call the Army

Brazil’s military is getting a serious workout these days. The authorities have recently deployed ...

Kaiowá leader Ladio Veron - Photo: Survival International

Let Down by Brazil, Indian Leader Goes to Europe to Save His People and the Forest

Ladio Veron, leader of Brazil’s indigenous Guarani-Kaiowá people, is touring Europe and making a ...

From the film Onã, CRUA (Coletivo de Rua)

Brazil’s Genocide Project for Blacks: 70% of Those Murdered Are Black

African-descendants in Brazil are 23.5 percent more likely to be killed than any other ...

The NGO Rio de Paz promotes an act in Copacabana -Tânia Rêgo/Ag. Brasil

Brazil NGOs Need a New Business Model. Brazilians Generosity Might Help with That

For many years, large foreign financiers, such as foundations and multilateral funds, were the ...

Brazilian farm workers - Sebastião Salgado

Brazil’s Left Is Proposing an Economy Based on Workers

cial and political movements in Brazil are organizing a “popular emergency plan” meant to ...

Bronze sculpture of Zumbi dos Palmares, in Salvador, Bahia state

Palmares, Brazil’s Slave Rebellion, Still Going On 400 Years Later

The Quilombo dos Palmares was a nation of fugitive slaves, Indians, and a few ...

Victims of the massacre get buried in close-by graves - Photo: Dinho Santos

Eviction in Brazil Ends Up in the Massacre by Police of Ten People

Ten campesinos (nine men and one woman) were killed by Brazil’s military and civilian ...

Protesters burn buildings and fight the police in Brasília - José Cruz/ABr

Responding to Pressure, Brazil President Removes Army from Capital

Brazilian President Michel Temer has called troops back off the streets of Brasília following ...

A crack addict in Brazil - Photo: Bruno Kelly

São Paulo’s Answer to Drugs: Police, Tractors and Forced Treatment

Last Sunday, São Paulo authorities dramatically deployed a “new” approach to dealing with drug ...