Sue Branford
Is the coronavirus epidemic worse in Brazil or in the UK?
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Brazil slashes environmental protection
by Sue Branford & Thais Borges
A new report documents draconian budget cuts to Brazilian environmental monitoring and firefighting of 9.8% in 2020, and 27.4%...
Amazonas appeals for global help
In a letter describing pandemic conditions as “dire,” the government of Brazil’s Amazonas state is pleading for urgent medical assistance from the international community. The authenticated letter apparently bypassed the Bolsonaro administration which critics say has been ineffectual in dealing with COVID-19.
New threats to Brazil’s indigenous people
The city of Manaus made world headlines last April when a first wave of the coronavirus swept through the city. Now that city, and the entire state of Amazonas, is being swept by a second wave of the pandemic, which is shaping up to be far worse than the first.
Brazil: the Yanomami abandoned
A new report highlights the escalating existential crisis among the 30,000 Indigenous people living in the Yanomami Territory, covering 9,664,975 hectares (37,317 square miles)...
Brazilian court orders 20,000 gold miners removed from Yanomami Park
The Yanomami Park covers 37,000 square miles in the Brazilian Amazon on the Venezuelan border; it is inhabited by 27,000 Yanomami. Soaring gold prices...
Virus toll of Indigenous elders is destroying history
COVID-19 kills the elderly, those with underlying health conditions, the poor and vulnerable. It is now doing so in the Brazilian Amazon where the...
Brazil: bringing the Word or the Coronavirus?
As the coronavirus spreads around the globe, with more than 300 known cases already in Brazil, and members of Pres. Jair Bolsonaro’s...
Amazon Indigenous group recovers sacred urns
In 2013, during the building of the Teles Pires dam in the Brazilian Amazon, the Teles Pires Hydroelectric Company (CHTP) dynamited Karobixexe...
Bolsonaro’s Brazil 2020: the march of the miners
by Sue Branford & Thais Borges
President Michel Temer issued a presidential decree in 2017 to open up the vast 4.6 million hectare (17,800 square...
