Brazil: Kadiwéu people adapt to survive
Kadiwéu people from Mato Grosso do Sul have survived against the odds. Now their eye-catching traditional designs are being used on fashionable bags and dresses. Will they benefit, and will they survive deforestation and the pandemic?
Brazil: MST guidance vs Bolsonaro’s irresponsibility
Brazil's president Bolsonaro has ridiculed the coronavirus crisis as being a mere flu, outraging health professionals and going against most members of his own...
Mexico: the president is doing well, but the country is not
This article was translated for LAB by Fuschia Fowke. You can read the original in Spanish here.
Preparations for Mexico’s 2020/21 elections began at...
Brazil: September 7 — day of death
'We now realise that Brazil has always chosen death. But never, at any other moment of its history, has the country reached this level of perversion under the formal title of democracy.'
Colombia: lessons of the pandemic
8 July 2020. In Colombia, children from the Chocó Robotics Club located in one of the remotest, poorest, and most violence-scarred departments, have used...
The Amazon: Deregulation and deforestation fuel the pandemic
This article was edited by LAB. The authors’ original text (in Portuguese) can be found here.
The authors argue that the acceleration of Amazonian deforestation...
The Amazon: Learning for a different future
A webinar about ways of teaching nad learning about the future of the Amazon, held in the Cabelo Seco community, Marabá, Pará, Brazil
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....