Catherine Morgans
Brazilian Amazon: Land colonization: ‘grandes vs pequenos’
A rare insight into the social structure, class divisions and psychology of colonist communities
Brazil’s environment is under stress
With forest fires in the Amazon and a terrible dam burst in Minas Gerais, Brazil is paying the cost of its failure to regulate properly human activities
Brazil — rural conflict growing
Though the media in Brazil pays little attention to it, rural violence against indigenous and landless workers is on the increase.
Land in Brazil 3
Because of the flurry of anti--indigenous legislation in the Brazilian Congress, Indians have decided that the only way to save their land and their culture is through direct action.
Land in Brazil 2
MST leader João Pedro Stédile says that "political reform" is the only solution for the country's political crisis
Brazil — castigated by forest fires and dam bursts
With some of the largest forest fires in decades and a burst dam resulting in the country’s worst environmental disaster to date, it has...