Tag: Brazil

Venezuelan Refugees End Up as Slave Workers in Brazil

After crossing the border from crisis-hit Venezuela into Brazil in late 2019, Henrique had ...

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Fabio Teixeira and Emily Costa
The Southern Atlantic right whale is back in the Brazilian coast.

Hunted for Centuries and Almost Extinct the Right Whale Is Making a Comeback in Brazil

Whale season started this month on the Brazilian coast and is expected to last ...

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Alana Gandra
Cut trees in the Amazon. Tarcisio Schnaider / shutterstock

Getting Rid of President Bolsonaro Won’t Solve the Deforestation Problem in the Amazon

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon made global headlines in 2019, thanks to massive wildfires ...

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Larissa Basso and Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue
An illustrated portrait of Fernando dos Santos Araújo. Illustration by Gabi Hawkins

The Fear of Being Killed Is Not Enough to Deter Those Fighting for Justice and Land in the Amazon

Fernando dos Santos Araújo woke up alongside his love, Bruno Pereira Gomes, on May ...

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Yessenia Funes
Image: Ueslei Marcelino Credit: Reuters.

The Deep Structure of Bolsonaro’s Brazil

Many writers and filmmakers claim artistic expression is more powerful at transmitting the tragedy ...

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Norman Madarasz
Brazilian electronic ballot.

Left and Right in Brazilian Presidential Elections

The next Brazilian presidential election, in October, 2022, will probably be polarized between Jair ...

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Ted Goertzel
A soldier stands guard in front of the Brazilian national flag on Army Day in São Paulo. Miguel Schincariol/AFP

The Militarization of Brazil’s Government Shows the Country Never Transitioned to Full Democracy

When former paratrooper captain Jair Bolsonaro was inaugurated as president of the Brazilian Republic ...

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Maud Chirio
A protester holds a sign reading "Bolsonaro out" at a protest in Brasília

Brazilians Take to the Streets to Protest Half a Million Deaths from Covid

Protesters took to the streets across Brazil on Saturday to demand President Jair Bolsonaro’s ...

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Perched on a platform 20ft above the bar sat a bedraggled man hunched over a pipe organ, the like of which might have graced a cathedral. Illustration by Gareth Mason

The Adventures of a Bored Journalist in the Magical Lands of Brazil and Latin America

With a population of more than 2.5 million, Manaus is by far the largest ...

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Gareth Mason
Members of the Uru-eu-wau-wau stand at the edge of their territory. Image courtesy of the Uru-eu-wau-wau

How an Amazon Tribe in Brazil Took Control of Their Own Story and Escaped Covid

When the Uru-eu-wau-wau were first contacted in 1981, disease and death followed shortly thereafter. ...

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Alejandro Smith