Brazilian Politics Society and Economy

Tens of thousands of Brazilians march to demand Bolsonaro’s impeachment

Protests in over 200 cities and towns in Brazil sparked by president’s handling of the Covid pandemic

Tens of thousands of protesters have poured on to the streets of Brazil’s largest cities to demand the impeachment of President Jair Bolsonaro over his catastrophic response to a coronavirus pandemic that has claimed nearly half a million Brazilian lives.

Time to Defend Life

Today I am not going to write an article, I am going to make an appeal as a leader of the MST and a member of the international coordination of Via Campesina. Looking at Brazil, we have to be clear, sincere and objective: we are reaching approximately two thousand daily deaths and almost three hundred thousand deaths in total. We are living what we might never have imagined living in our history, in the middle of the 21st century. We are experiencing a war against the virus, but with a disorganized state, a murderous government and an unbelieving society.

MST will be received at the OAS Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Scheduled for December 9, an international audience will have complaints from the MST on human rights violations in the Brazilian countryside

On December 9, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States (IACHR/OAS) will host the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) to listen to the interlocutor of movements in the Brazilian countryside about the paralysis of Agrarian

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