Tag: Europe

Brazilian President Bolsonaro visits Dubai

How International Pariah Bolsonaro Changed the Way the World Sees Brazil

He may be welcome in Gulf sheikdoms, where religious faith and the sale of ...

Brazilian President-elect Jair Messias Bolsonaro

Brazil’s President-elect Is No Trump. He Was Even a Hugo Chávez Admirer

Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s president-elect, is sometimes referred to as the Brazilian Trump (Economist, 2017), ...

Slave ship

How Brazil Used Cachaça, Tobacco and Gold to Keep Slave Trade Going

Sections of a Brazilian slave ship from the 19th century. Robert Walsh, as shown ...

The orange-winged parrot (Amazona amazonica) and the blue and yellow macaw (Ara ararauna) pictured, were the most traded parrot species - Photo by Luc Viatour

Benefits and Risks of Legal Wildlife Trade in the Amazon

The multimillion-dollar legal wildlife trade in species originating from Amazonian countries has been analyzed ...

Front and back cover of "The Cantora" by Paulo Cohn

The Cantora: A Historical Novel About Brazil in the Early 1500s

The Cantora (The Native Singer of Colonial Brazil) is both a young adult and ...

Kaiowá leader Ladio Veron - Photo: Survival International

Let Down by Brazil, Indian Leader Goes to Europe to Save His People and the Forest

Ladio Veron, leader of Brazil’s indigenous Guarani-Kaiowá people, is touring Europe and making a ...

A Brazilian Virus Called Odebrecht

Over the last 73 years, Odebrecht has become the leading construction company in Latin ...

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