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Reports and data show land invasions heighten the risk of a “new genocide”

The comings and goings of land invaders on indigenous lands has exposed tribes to the novel coronavirus,...

While much of the world struggles to clean up contamination from the toxic industrial compound PFOS, Brazil is still adding to the massive environmental mess with its large-scale production, use, and export of sulfluramid, a pesticide that degrades into PFOS.

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In April of 1996, 21 farm workers were murdered; those who survived turned their pain into struggle

It was Wednesday, around 4pm, on the 17th of April 1996. Around fifteen hundred people...

Relationship between the two soured during the coronavirus crisis; another physician is set to take over

Brazilian Health Minister, Luiz...

The MST coordinator launches a book on agrarian reform in the world and proposes that in Brazil it should be based on agroecology

The...

Researchers analyze fake news coming from the Bolsonaro family shared on social media

Even after Twitter, Facebook and Instagram deleted president Jair Bolsonaro’s posts...

Some of the most distinguished members of the Brazilian left have demanded Jair Bolsonaro’s resignation in a biting declaration that criticised what they called his cynical and criminally...

In an interview to journalists, the former head of state pointed out mistakes and paths forward for the Bolsonaro goverment

Former president Luiz...

Expansion of emergency basic income for poor elderly was approved by the Senate, but vetoed by the president

It is not new, with the COVID-19 pandemic, that the living...

President was the target of legal action for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC)

President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party) could be sentenced to up to 30 years in prison if the International Criminal Court (ICC) understands that he committed a crime against humanity by creating public...

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