Brazil Police Strike: For Bahia Governor It’s Damned If He Does, Damned If He Doesn’t

Legislative Assembly, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. About 200 military policemen are occupying the Assembly.  They ...

Brazil: After One Week and Over 100 Murders Still no End in Sight for Bahia’s Police Strike

Side street of a residential area of a city of Bahia.  Mountains of trash ...

Trash Brings Money and a New Culture to Brazil

Recycling still has a lot of growing to do in Brazil. Of the 5,560 ...

The Transfiguration of Trash Pickers in Brazil and Latin America

In Mexico they call them pepenadores. In Argentina they are known as  cartoneros. Brazilians ...