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Olodum performers hit the streets. Credit: Banda Olodum

2 Jun 2020 4 minute read

‘Drums have the power to make people listen’

Lazinho and Lucas di Fiori of Brazil's famous Banda Olodum talk to Alessio Perrone about...

Women march during the National Black Consciousness Day in Sao Paulo, Brazil November 20, 2019. REUTERS/Nacho Doce

28 May 2020 3 minute read

Black women in the vanguard

In Brazil, misogynoir – misogyny directed at black women – has been used to fire up President Jair Bolsonaro’s machismo base...

For the world to witness: weary and homeless, this woman rests by a busy thoroughfare in São Paulo. Davidsonluna/Unsplash

19 Apr 2020 6 minute read

Can cash hand-outs cure poverty?

Vanessa Martina Silva considers the track record of Brazil’s flagship Bolsa Família, the world’s largest...

The Ashaninka are an indigenous people living in the State of Acre, Brazil. © Pedro França/MinC

16 Apr 2020 3 minute read

View from Brazil

Leonardo Sakamoto on the war against indigenous people.

Firmino, pictured in Rocinha. Credit: Alessio Perrone

24 Jan 2020 5 minute read

A museum for the working class

In Rocinha, the largest favela in Brazil and one of the largest in Latin America, a makeshift museum is painting a proud...

About 369,000 people are believed to modern slaves in Brazil - representing 1 in 555 of its population - according to the Global Slavery Index by human rights group Walk Free Foundation.

20 Jan 2020 3 minute read

Modern-day slavery in the Amazon

Rescuing slaves is not the cure, says Leonardo Sakomoto.

5 Nov 2019 5 minute read

In Bolsonaro’s Brazil, dams are ticking time bombs

Human rights defender, Tchenna Maso, reflects on the human cost of Bolsonaro's open door policy for mining...

28 Oct 2019 3 minute read

Pyromaniac president, international pariah

Leonardo Sakamoto writes plainly about the suicidal drives and fake patriotism behind the culling of the...

2 Sep 2019 3 minute read

Seven ways to fight fires in the Amazon

Danny Chivers explains how those outside Latin America can act in solidarity with forest defenders....

14 Aug 2019 3 minute read

The idolatry of Sérgio Moro

Leonardo Sakomoto on Brazil's top judge who became vigilante – and then ‘God’

4 Aug 2019 7 minute read

Spectacle and reality in Rio

Sporting mega-events purport to boost civic pride and economic growth. But their true legacy is one of rampant...

1 Jul 2019 2 minute read

Shoot first, ask questions later

In Rio de Janeiro, even bystanders are falling victim to brutal policing tactics, reports Leonardo Sakamoto....

21 May 2019 19 minute read

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The indigenous resistance against Jair Bolsonaro

Jair Bolsonaro may be in power, but the Sateré indigenous people are not taking his hostility sitting down. Sue...

1 May 2019 3 minute read

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Will pensions unite the Left against Bolsonaro?

Leonardo Sakamoto reports on the ‘first and most important battle to be fought by the opposition’ in...

18 Feb 2019 6 minute read

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Why Brazil fails to learn from its mining catastrophes

Nick Terdre asks why has nothing changed since Brazil’s last environmental disaster?

1 Feb 2019 4 minute read

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Bolsonaro’s assault on difference

Brazil’s most vulnerable people are feeling the pressure – and the fear. ...

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