Tag: Brazil

A signboard with the figure of Jair Bolsonaro and the inscription "Hysteria hurts economy" over him.

Brazil President Keeps Churches Open and Calls Governors Criminals for Imposing Lockdowns

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro blasted as criminals the governors and mayors of Brazil’s largest ...

Cuban doctor Raymond Garcia in Brazil

Cuban Doctors in Brazil Waiting for a Chance to Treat Coronavirus

Raymond Garcia has experience with epidemics. First he treated cholera in Haiti. He battled ...

Venezuelan kids wait for a meal at a migrant shelter in Boa Vista, Roraima state, Brazil - Eraldo Peres/AP

Brazil Teaches the World How to Be Humane to Refugees

The global north tends to view the global south as a source of refugees, ...

Burning the trees to raise cattle in the Brazilian Amazon

The Price of Fighting Land-grabbing in the Amazon Can Be Your Life

Maria Marcia Elpidia de Melo hasn’t seen her son Elmiro for more than six ...

Brazilians often can't distinguish between fact and fiction

In Brazil, History and Story Are the Same and Fake News Isn’t Fake

Fake news is the big news these days. We are being warned how pernicious ...

Brazilian president says that Brazilians have to respect US's immigration laws

Trying to Please Trump, Brazil Approves Mass Deportation of Brazilians in the US

The U.S. government has again deported a planeload of Brazilians, the second such chartered ...

Brazilian Indian ritual

Indians To Sue Brazil President After He Says They’re Becoming More Human

The main organization representing Brazil’s 300 indigenous tribes announced it would sue Brazilian President ...

Voluntary firefighter tries to rescue cow entrapped in the mud in Brumadinho

No Lesson Learned One Year after Brazil’s Catastrophic Dam Collapse with 270 Deaths

On Friday, January 25, 2019, most of Helena Taliberti’s family was swept away within ...

Brazilian President gives an interview to a TV network. Picture by Marcos Corrêa/PR

Offended to Be Called Enemy of the Free Press, Brazil President Vows to Give No More Interviews

A frequent and fiery critic of Brazil’s media, President Jair Bolsonaro declared he would ...