Brazil: local activists fill the information vacuum on Covid-19
This article was researched and written by José Cícero da Silva for Agência Pública, LAB’s São Paulo partner
Translated for LAB by Tom Gatehouse. You...
Brazil’s Women of Virtue
In Damares Alves, Minister for Women, Family and Human Rights, Brazil’s evangelical churches have a representative at the very heart of government. To understand what these churches expect of their female worshippers, three Agência Pública reporters attended services and events during 2019.
The final offensive against Brazil’s indigenous people
The anthropologist
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro discusses indigenous resistance in the Amazon, the
indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, and his pessimism about the climate crisis
Translated by Tom...
Toxic chemicals being sold in Brazil
In 2017, Brazilian authorities decided to ban paraquat because of its links to Parkinson’s disease. But since then, imports have increased, and restrictions have...
The indigenous midwives of the Amazon
In the villages of Tabatinga, Amazonas, Ticuna midwives work
according to ancestral traditions, honing their skills generation after
generation. However, they remain unrecognised by the state.
Translated...
Land conflicts and destruction in the Brazilian Amazon
This is the first of a series of articles contributed by LAB partner Agência Pública from São Paulo, Brazil. It brings together material first...
Militias advance on Rio environmental reserve
By Mariana Simões, Agência Pública
Agência Pública is a LAB partner, and provided this article for publication in English by LAB. Translated by Julia...
Pay-off time: Brazilian agribusiness calls in favours
Agência Pública is a LAB partner, and provided this article for publication in English by LAB. Translation by Shanna Hanburyt The original, in Portuguese,...
Brazil: Bolsonaro – the lone wolf dreams of glory
This article is an edited translation. You can read the original on Agencia Pública's website, in Portuguese, here.
Former army captain Jair Bolsonaro is no...
Brazil: police target MST members in land occupations
The small town of Quedas do Iguaçu, in southern Brazil close to the border with Paraguay, awoke to the sound of helicopters on November 4 last...