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The murder of Brazil indigenist Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips is shocking. Still, once looking more closely, it is not necessarily a surprise considering both the violence in Brazil and the situation in the rain forest under President Jair Bolsonaro.
Ukraine’s former president Petro Poroshenko has taken refuge in Poland after being accused of treason and cooperation with Russia. It’s a film we’ve seen before in Kyiv.
Business sectors fear the now less popular President Jair Bolsonaro’s bid to retain power will pave the way for another “red” government under Lula da Silva.
China’s global investment tentacles have reached South American railways, where Chinese firms are “silent” partners in expanding rail networks, through financing or sale of rolling stock.
By turning its back on regional integration, the conservative government of Jair Bolsonaro is putting ideology above the country’s long-term economic and political interests.
A government health campaign to vaccinate the citizens of Rio de Janeiro provoked a violent insurrection. More than a century later, Brazilians are demanding immunization against COVID-19 from their anti-vax president.
Fears of an economic slump under another leftist government led by an ‘unrepentant’ Lula da Silva may prompt Brazilians to reelect authoritarian President Jair Bolsonaro for a second term next year.
Would an agreement with the Americans make the Bolsonaro government change course?
As part of a medical study, the mid-sized Brazilian city of Serrana is now nearly 100% vaccinated, even as the rest of the country is crumbling under COVID’s toll.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/SvrqUfd_El8 expand=1] One year into the coronavirus pandemic, Brazil registered its deadliest month in March. In the 31 days that have just passed, 66,573 people were killed by COVID-19, more than double the previous monthly high. The explosion of cases is largely blamed on the local virus variant, believed to be more contagious, having […]
With the sudden departure of Brazil’s top generals, Jair Bolsonaro’s government may be weakened. But it may also be setting up the ultimate showdown for the country’s democracy ahead of next year’s election.
Petrobras, the state-owned Brazilian oil and gas company, may post big numbers but it has a backward strategy.
-Analysis- It was quite a statement about Brazil’s justice system: “I have been the victim of the biggest judicial lie in 500 years,” Luiz Inácio da Silva declared last week. But the hyperbole from the former president, better known as Lula, was also very much about politics — considered by many to be the opening […]
The streets are quiet, the joy is missing, and the guns are out. The eve of Carnival feels different this year in Brazil — and it’s not just the pandemic. Even as newspaper headlines report the country’s coronavirus death toll nearing 250,000, President Jair Bolsonaro has introduced another element of danger: new looser gun ownership […]
An 86-year-old identified as the last male member of the Juma, a Brazilian tribe on the verge of extinction, died of the coronavirus last week, Rio-based daily O Globo reported. Amoin Aruká died in a hospital Feb. 18 in Porto Velho, in the northern Brazilian state of Rondonia, where he was receiving treatment since earlier […]
The new administration isn’t likely to prioritize relations with Latin America and the Caribbean. But after the Trump era, that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
The price, however, is being paid in lost lives.
Brazilian local elections can be fun to watch. Candidates come from every walk of life, and are notably allowed to use nicknames on the campaign trail — and there have been some true gems over the years: a loud man with thick sideburns and bushy hair campaigned as “Geraldo Wolverine”; an elderly man in army […]
Rafaela Dutra was working in Rio de Janeiro’s tourism industry and studying to become a nurse when the coronavirus arrived. A resident of the sprawling low-income favelas in the city’s Zona Norte, she had worked in one of Copacabana’s shiny, high-rise hotels, earning up to twice the region’s minimum monthly wage of 1,200 reais ($220). […]
An indigenous tribe in Brazil’s Amazon region has seen plenty of coronavirus cases, but zero deaths.
SÃO PAULO — One of the world’s most important biodiversity regions is experiencing the worst drought and the worst series of wildfires in decades. Yes, the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland area, in western Brazil, is burning. So far this year, fires have scorched more than 1.2 million hectares of land, about eight times […]
Social distancing, disinfecting common areas and accessing health care: All three key tactics for curbing the spread of coronavirus are particularly complicated inside jails and prisons. While it might seem like an already self-isolating bubble, life inside prisons has changed dramatically since COVID-19 arrived. In an effort to keep healthy, many have lost their rights […]
Few outside his native Italy had heard of Matteo Salvini before he emerged in 2018 as the new global star of far-right populism. Catapulted by the election success of his League party, the scruffy and sardonic northerner had grown into Italy’s most talked-about and incendiary politician, solidifying power in his role as interior minister in […]
The Amazon jungle provides benefits that extend well beyond the river basin itself. It stands to reason, therefore, that countries like Colombia be paid to protect it.
The South American nation has the second highest number of coronavirus fatalities in the world (after the United States), and with ICU beds in short supply, the death toll will continue to rise.
-Analysis- You could almost hear a collective “Ha!” from around the world. The news yesterday that Jair Bolsonaro had been infected with the coronavirus comes after the Brazilian president’s response to the epidemic over the past four months that mixed arrogant dismissiveness with outright lies: The 65-year-old hardline right-wing leader first baselessly suggested Brazilians were […]
Like so many before him, João took a bus to Rio de Janeiro in search of the kind of hope and economic opportunity that only big cities promise. “I came looking for something better, then the worst happened,” he told a Globo TV crew. The worst was COVID-19. As deaths skyrocketed in the city and […]
Welcome to Wednesday, where the toll of Canada’s record heatwave is multiplying, Tigray rebels dismiss a government ceasefire and a British rock legend gets to keep his railroad jingle. As Pride Month draws to an end, we also look at how LGBTQ+ activists in several African countries confront the challenge of overcoming conservative attitudes and […]
Welcome to Friday, where the global COVID-19 death toll exceeds 4 million, ousted Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo is back in town and Joe Biden makes Juneteenth official. We also go to Hong Kong where so-called “vaccine hesitancy” is particularly high as a direct result of rising mistrust of the government. • Global COVID-19 death […]
João Pedro Matos was in his uncle’s garden on May 18 in São Gonçalo, near Rio de Janeiro, when Brazil’s Federal Police stormed in. Police claim officers traded shots with armed drug traffickers, though the Matos family denies this. A bullet fired by an officer hit João Pedro, who was taken away in a helicopter […]
The Brazilian president’s antics were cause for alarm even before the deadly pandemic. But with the illness running rampant, the story is taking an ever darker turn.
The novel coronavirus currently sweeping the globe can, of course, infect any of us. But it poses particular dangers for indigenous and forest-dwelling communities attempting to live isolated from the modern world, and who in some extreme cases fear for their very survival. History is littered with tragic episodes of exposed communities decimated by imported […]
The auto and electronics sector in Brazil is a prime example of how manufacturers around the world came to depend on Chinese-made supplies, and are now struggling because of it.
Welcome to Thursday, where WHO chides the EU’s slow vaccination rollout, two of Hong Kong’s best-known democracy leaders are convicted and Japan has a pricey solution for those missing airline food. Buenos Aires daily Clarin also has the scoop on the meat industry’s beef with a former Beatle. • COVID update: The world’s second most […]
Welcome to Monday, where Navalny is arrested upon his return to Moscow, Brazil starts its mass vaccination campaign and there are signs of life from China’s trapped miners. Meanwhile, Le Monde travels to the French port city of Calais to see how high-tech is being used to ease post-Brexit commerce with the UK. SPOTLIGHT: ON […]
Le petit oiseau va sortir…! “Here flies the little bird!” is what we say in France when we want our subjects to pay attention and look at the camera. That time in Manaus, one of the gateways to the lush Brazilian rainforest, these vibrant orange birds didn’t fly away just long enough to get this […]
Fish, fruit, pottery, an endless selection of drain pipes: the massive open-air markets were a vivid memory from the northern Brazilian city of Belem.
It would not be the first time Brazil and Argentina vie to clinch privileged ties with Washington, though for its economic weight and its president’s conservative fervor, Brazil may be ahead in this game.
The world-renowned Brazilian novelist was one of thousands jailed and tortured during the military regime (1964-1985) that Brazil’s current President Jair Bolsonaro holds in such high esteem.
Colombians were not overtly upset by deforestation in their country until recently. But massive media coverage of the Brazilian Amazon on fire may be changing attitudes.