By Carol Duff, MSN, BA, RN Indigenous leaders warn of missionaries turning Amazon villages against vaccines By Anthony Boadle Reuters.com Health Editor’s Note: Shame on any group who would try to keep people from getting the […]
by VIJAY PRASHAD Photograph Source: Prefeitura de Olinda – CC BY 2.0 Jhuliana Rodrigues works as a nurse technician at the Hospital São Vicente in Jundiaí, Brazil. “It is very difficult,” she says of her job these […]
By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida Agribusiness is the center of the Brazilian economy, corresponding to more than 20% of the national GDP. In fact, Brazilian economy has suffered a heavy blow in recent years, with the […]
The Intercept Brasil and Agencia Publica revealed the FBI-Car Wash Task Force illegal agreement. The Workers’ Party (PT) denounced in the Brazilian Public Prosecutor’s Office the illegal cooperation agreement signed between the Car Wash (CW) task force and the Federal Bureau of Investigation […]
The remarks from International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies president Francesco Rocca for lawmakers to heed science came as Trump said the coronavirus is “going to sort of just disappear.” by: Andrea […]
Brasilia: The Brazilian Ministry of Health said today, Thursday, that it had recorded 42,619 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours and 1,220 deaths. According to the ministry’s data, the total number of […]
By Paul Antonopoulos It is only natural for many people to think Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro testing positive for COVID-19 is a karma for his insistence on minimizing the risks of the disease and a near non-existent management […]
By: Alvaro Michaels The resignation of health minister Nelson Teich, on 15 May, in protest at the preposterous medical suggestions of President Bolsonaro, less than a month after his predecessor was sacked, has shaken Bolsonaro’s […]
Brazil, with some 210 million inhabitants, is the seventh most populated country in the world. Brazil’s government stopped publishing the total accumulated COVID-19 deaths and infections, in an attempt to hide the real extent of the […]
By: ROBERT HUNZIKER Photograph Source: Neil Palmer/CIAT – Flickr – CC BY-SA 2.0 Over the past 20 years, like clockwork, severe droughts have hit the Amazon every five years with regularity 2005, 2010, 2015. Of course, droughts […]