Tag: Brazil
Resurgence of Covid-19 in Brazil’s Amazon Dashes Hopes of Herd Immunity
The largest city in Brazil’s Amazon has closed bars and river beaches to contain ...
Rio Carnaval Will Have to Wait for Green Light from the Coronavirus
Rio de Janeiro’s world famous Carnaval parade will not take place in February 2021 ...
Brazil’s Guardians of the Forest: a Story of Bravery and Blood
If we ask Olimpio Santos Guajajara when the Guardians of the Forest were founded, ...
World’s Largest Tropical Wetland, the Brazilian Pantanal, Being Converted into Ashes
Fires are raging in the wetlands of west-central Brazil, leaving behind a vast swath ...
How Romanticization of the Past Makes Portugal Deny Its Racism and Reality of Colonialism
The slogan: “Portugal is a country of gentle manners” was crafted by Portugal’s former ...
Brazil’s Declining Credibility Involves Blind Americanism, Moralism and Anti-Communism
A vital component of any country’s foreign policy is the promotion of international affairs ...
With Close to 1,000 Deaths, Brazil Indians Get an App to Keep Track of Covid-19
Indigenous and environmental organizations in Brazil launched an app aimed at alerting indigenous communities ...
How Brazilian Blacks Were Conditioned Through Generations to Ignore Their Blackness
The great debate in the US, these days, seems to revolve around whether rioting ...
The More Amazon Poor Farmers Burn the Forest the More They Need to Burn It
The 2019 fires in the Brazilian Amazon were the result of an alarming surge ...
We Don’t Want Alms or Glass Beads, But Respect, Says Brazilian Indigenous Leader
Interview with indigenous chief Alvaro Tukano on the situation of indigenous peoples in Brazil ...
