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...
Brazilian Amazon: first Covid-19 case among indigenous people
A 20-year-old Kokama indigenous
woman in northern Amazonas state tested positive for the virus,
according to the federal government’s body in charge of health...
Rapid deforestation may fuel pandemics
Nearly 25,000 COVID-19 cases have
been confirmed in Brazil, with 1,378 deaths as of April 15, though some
experts say this is an underestimate....
Quilombos at risk – will help arrive?
The Boa Vista Quilombo in Oriximiná, Pará state, is like many Brazilian quilombola communities. Quilombolas are Afro-Brazilian runaway slave descendants, and point to centuries...
The measles from the time of my grandfather
This article is part of the series: Dispatches from the pandemic, published on Somatosphere.
Main image: CCPY doctor examines a sick Yanomami child, Balaú, Brazil....
Chile’s protesters: no impunity for oppression
This is the second of two articles with testimony from Chile’s protest movements. The first can be read here.
See also our January article 'Chile's...
Chile: a polarised September on the eve of a crucial plebiscite
As the date for Chile's constitutional plebiscite nears, the country is increasingly polarised. Polls, however, show a large majority in favour of a new constitution being drawn up by a constituent assembly of citizens, not a joint citizen-Congress committee.
Venezuela’s wealth is being plundered
The political stalemate in Venezuela leaves the country wide open to plunder by international creditors, banks and vulture funds. Meanwhile, the country cannot spend its own money to combat Covid-19.