Watching the Brazilian political scene is a
bit like watching an old disaster movie, where a suicidal maniac has taken over
the plane’s controls and put it into a steep dive, while members of the crew wrestle
with him to avert the crash.
A typical disaster movie of the genre.
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Open and poorly treated
wounds, food waste on the cell floor, rat faeces, little ventilation, water
rationing, insects everywhere. While some inmates do not even get up from their
beds, such is their weak state of health, others are stuck in wheelchairs. To
wash one’s body or one’s hands or clean any object prisoners have to wait for a
hole in...
This article was translated for LAB by Chloe Budd. You can read the original (in Spanish) here.
Main image: Raya, an old Nahua. More than half of his village was destroyed after the land opened to oil exploration. Image: Survival International
They...
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 services
for indigenous people in Brazil (SESAI).She is one of
27 people who are being monitored after being in contact with Dr.
Matheus Feitosa, who was diagnosed with COVID-19 last week. Feitosa is...
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The youth stares at his imprisoned canoe
a bleached skeleton in the cracked earth.
Intuitively, he plants his feet on the arrowhead of earth
where the Rivers Tocantins and Itacaiúnas meet
and slowly, with shame, presses...
Rios de Encontro, the eco-cultural and social education Project, based in the community of Cabelo Seco, Marabá, since 2008, is in quarantine. Dozens of children and young people have been asking the coordinators since the beginning of March, when the Owl Cinema, the Leaves of Life Library, the Rabetas Audiovisual courses and the AfroMundo dance company...
This is the fourth in a series of articles written and published in Portuguese by Agência Pública, São Paulo, translated and published in English by LAB.
Translated by Tom Gatehouse. You can read the original, published in May 2019, here.
In Damares Alves, Minister for Women, Family and Human Rights,...
Brazil faces two disasters: the pandemic of coronavirus,
and the pandemonium of the Bolsonaro government. The first is invisible and
highly contagious but should only last a few months. The second is highly visible
but has three and three quarter years to run.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32W6axPeisQ
Video: Rede TVT, 18 March 2020
This article was first published by The Intercept on 18 March. It was translated for LAB by Chris Whitehouse. You can read the original (in Portuguese) here.
LAB has added a note about quilombos and an update on the Covid-19 test results.
The main image is from The Intercept. Photo: Nelson...
Camila Pierobon
Camila Pierobon is a Research Associate at CEBRAP (São Paulo). She wrote this piece in a text to a friend after arriving home in Brazil on 18 March. It is published here with the author's permission
The chaos where this crazy...