Tag: Brazil
Netflix Documentary on Pelé Passes Up a Chance to Deal with Brazil’s Class and Race
A recent Netflix documentary about the legendary Brazilian soccer player Edson Arantes do Nascimento, ...
Unable to Control Covid, Brazil Has Become a Global Threat
The world is nearing the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel thanks ...
Cleared by Justice, Lula Seems Ready for a Third Presidential Run
Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva showed that his political career is ...
Amazon Indians Living 10,000 Years in Area Want a Say in New Grainway Train Project
A controversial freight railway line that would cut through Indigenous lands in the Brazilian ...
Brazil President’s Fans Call Him Myth and Are Encouraged to Defy Science and Books
Recent polls suggest that the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, is the favorite to win ...
They Call Themselves Green, But Palm Oil in the Amazon Means Deforestation and Human Rights Violations
Guided by an Indigenous leader, we drove down dusty roads in the Turé-Mariquita Indigenous ...
Lula’s Innocence Declared in Court Opens Door for Next Year’s Run for Presidency
A Brazilian Supreme Court judge on Monday annulled the criminal convictions against former leftist ...
Slave Workers Rescued in Brazil Were as Young as Nine
A large Brazilian tobacco exporter has been charged with using slave labor in the ...
Enough with the Fussiness, Stop the “Mimimi”, Blurts Out Brazilian President Faced with Covid
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said that people needed to “stop whining” about COVID-19 in ...
Only Now the World Is Starting to Learn How Vital Is Brazil’s Cerrado to Our Planet
On May 6, 2015, the Brazilian government officially recognized a special economic region, one ...
