Tag: Brazilian
Brazil’s Coronavirus Hunger Games: Indigenous Communities and Their Struggle for Survival
With coronavirus infections steeply rising, Brazil is now the second placed country in the ...
Brazil and US: The Unmasked Leaders
It’s a masked world. One man wearing a mask is odd. He could be ...
Trying Social Distancing in a Brazil That Doesn’t Believe in Personal Space Boundaries
Here in Brazil, like the rest of the world, we are under lockdown. Every ...
A Personal Account of a Rio Favela Resident on His Dealing with Coronavirus
This report from Vila Autódromo is the first in a series by favela residents ...
Getting Comfy with Covid-19 in Brazil
I’ve been having an unusual number of birthdays, several a day in fact. It ...
Brazil: Paradise for Foreign Investors Except for Red Tape, Bad Infrastructure and Labor Laws
Despite the recent stagnation in its economy, largely as a result of the decline ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
While World Demand for Slave-free Coffee Grows, Brazil Finds Ways to Cheat Consumers
As the coffee harvest drew to a close in the rolling hills of southeastern ...
