Sue Branford

As the coronavirus spreads around the globe, with more than 300 known cases already in Brazil, and members of Pres. Jair Bolsonaro’s...

In 2013, during the building of the Teles Pires dam in the Brazilian Amazon, the Teles Pires Hydroelectric Company (CHTP) dynamited Karobixexe...

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...

by Sue Branford & Thais Borges While the media focused in 2019 on Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s incendiary remarks, or on the Amazon fires, he...

by Sue Branford & Thais Borges The Bolsonaro administration has launched policies that undermine IBAMA, Brazil’s environmental agency, and ICMBio (The Chico Mendes Institute) which...

by Sue Branford & Thais Borges The Amazon has seen three probable massacres in 12 days — likely a record for the region — as...

by Sue Branford & Mauricio Torres New Minister of Mines and Energy Admiral Bento Albuquerque announced on 4 March that he plans to permit...

P oll after poll this week has shown support for the ex-army captain, Jair Bolsonaro, is growing, while the number backing Fernando Haddad, from...

Updated 23 June, to reflect latest legal decision. In his prison cell, every morning at 7 o’clock, Lula hears hundreds of supporters camped nearby...

  Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans marched through the streets of the capital Managua and other cities at the end of April. The demonstrations were in...