by JESS FRANKLIN Photo: G. Miranda, FUNAI, Survival International. A man who has repeatedly romanticized dictatorship and advocated the use of torture seems like an odd choice for guest of honor at the annual celebration of […]
BY: Sue Branford & Maurício Torres, Mongabay For many years, international and Brazilian mining companies have dreamed of getting access to the mineral wealth lying beneath indigenous lands. And finally, the government of Jair Bolsonaro seems determined to […]
From Brazil to Bolivia and Venezuela: how the environment has become a tool of coercion. Proletarian writers Since this article was written, the legitimate president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, has been overthrown in a US-sponsored coup. […]
by: Brian Mier Former President of Brazil Lula da Silva speaking in front of the Metalworkers union on November 9, 2019, after his release from prison. (Photo: Brian Mier) The Brazilian Supreme Court reversed a […]
by; PAUL STREET A clash between pro-Zelaya protesters and the Honduran military. Photograph Source: Roberto Breve – CC BY-SA 2.0 However much they war on the domestic political front, Washington’s Democrats and Republicans are on the same […]
by ANA PAULA VARGAS – VIJAY PRASHAD Just before 5 p.m. on Friday the 8th of November, Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva walked out of his prison in Curitiba, Brazil. Lula went to prison in April last […]
By Danica Jorden A ruling by the Constitutional Court provisionally released Lula. An important part of the Brazilian people welcomed the news with joy and hope. But Bolsonaro reacted with rage and called him “guilty scum”. […]
BYCaitlin Schroering, Truthout R On January 25, a dam at Córrego do Feijão in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil, collapsed. At least 300 people have been killed, buried alive in mud. To date, 179 bodies have been identified. […]
The Amazon is burning and global deforestation accelerating – we need unified international action. By Nicole Polsterer Global Research, Jair Bolsonaro defied his critics at the UN General Assembly in New York this month – as expected – denouncing those […]
By Benjamin R. Evans, Panayiota Kotsakiozi, Andre Luis Costa-da-Silva, and et al. Global Research, According to an incisive report by Deutsche Welle, “genetically modified mosquitoes are currently breeding in Brazil”. Under the researchers’ original plan, “all released mosquitoes and their offspring should […]