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    Members of the Uru-eu-wau-wau stand at the edge of their territory. Image courtesy of the Uru-eu-wau-wau

    How an Amazon Tribe in Brazil Took Control of Their Own Story and Escaped Covid

    When the Uru-eu-wau-wau were first contacted in 1981, disease and death followed shortly thereafter. ...

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    Alejandro Smith
    Body bags on Rio's Copacabana beach symbolize the victims of the pandemic. -Fernando Souza/dpa/Alamy

    A Military Coup in Brazil is Unavoidable. Some Believe It Has Already Happened

    Brazil, once the flagship of social democracy in Latin America, has become an international ...

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    Frédéric Vandenberghe and Jaime Marques Pereira
    Waiãpi indigenous children in Amapá state, Brazil. Image by Sam Cowie/Mongabay.

    Amazon Indians Fear Coronavirus Amid a Campaign to Convert Them to Christianity

    Indigenous leaders in Brazil are acting to avert the devastating impact coronavirus could have ...

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    Sam Cowie