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Sue Branford's Blogs

Sue Branford is a senior editor at LAB, specializing in Brazil, the Amazon and the environment. Her blogs collect some of her diary accounts of trips to the Amazon and other themes she has pursued in her reporting. Sue worked in Brazil in the 1970s as correspondent for The Financial Times, The Economist and The Observer. Back in the UK, she worked for the BBC World Service and since then she has returned frequently to Brazil on reporting trips for the Times, the Guardian and Mongabay.

Tapajos: Public consultation? –More of a PR exercise

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Government-sponsored 'public consultation' on hydro-electric dam projects falls woefully short.

Rio Trombetas: The Last Quilombo

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Indigenous villagers protesting against hydro-electric projects face escalating intimidation.

Munduruku people in the Amazon: “Police and armed forces surround our...

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Indigenous villagers protesting against hydro-electric projects face escalating intimidation.

Gold Mining: enter the company, and a time bomb…

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The advent of a mining company spells conflict and potential environmental damaga

Gold Mining in the Amazon: Life in a garimpo

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São José is a currutela, a village of gold-panners. Life is precarious but until recently there was some stability and community spirit.

Transparency in Jacareacanga: Don’t you dare talk to me!

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The company in charge of environmental impact studies for hydro-electric plants on the Tapajos river does not like journalists.

Midia Ninja, alternative news

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Founded as part of the Fora do Eixo, to stage and film local festivals, this collective of young journalists is challenging the established might of TV Globo.

Rio, one year on

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Back in Brazil after a year's absence, Sue Branford feels the change -after decades of inertia brought about by the co-option of social movements by the PT, the country is coming alive again.

Part 6: Fordlândia

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In the sixth and final episode of her journey, LAB editor Sue Branford takes time off to visit Fordlândia, Henry Ford's failed attempt to create rubber plantations in the Brazilian Amazon.

Part 5: Altamira, Belo Monte, Anapu – colonos and loggers

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In the fifth episode of her journey, LAB editor Sue Branford continues eastwards along the Transamazônica highway to the town of Altamira, which, due to the Belo Monte hydroelectric power station, is expanding at a momentous rate.

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