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    Indigenous people show a deforested area inside the Amazon rainforest REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

    Brazil’s Anti-green Ultra-conservative Legislature Is a Threat to the Amazon

    Brazil’s stewardship of the world’s largest tropical forest has long ignited acrimony. If frontier ...

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    Robert Muggah and Mac Margolis
    In Rio, Afro-Brazilian faiths are increasingly under attack by evangelicals

    Brazilian Evangelical Gangs Go to War Against Afro-Brazilian Faiths, in the Name of God

    The expression “evangelical drug trafficker” may sound incongruous, but in the Brazilian city of ...

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    Robert Muggah
    Militias were created to guarantee law and order. They have become ruthless criminal gangs.

    Born to Fight Crime in the 1990s, Rio’s Militias Have Become Just Another Criminal Organization

    In mid-May 2008, a journalist, a photographer and their driver were kidnapped and tortured ...

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    Ana Paula Pellegrino, Dandara Tinoco, Renata Giannini, Robert Muggah