Brazil

In the second of two articles, mining engineer Laurence Morris describes how the oligarchy of the 'Big Five' mining companies operates and the negative consequences of their monopoly of power, influence and resources.

In the early hours of Monday August 12, silence fell on the Amazon. Márcio Souza, writer, dramatist, director, novelist, 'emperor of the Amazon', passed...

This article, Marcos Colón (Amazônia Latitude), and Katie Surma (Inside Climate News) was first published by Sumaúma on 8 August 2024. You can read the...

Celebration of 25 Years of Resistance and Good Living Forum 2024Foot of the Mountain Village, Easter Mountain, Southern Bahia August 17-20, 2024 On August 19,...

Congratulations to Tom Gatehouse for winning a #PENTranslates award from English PEN to translate Bernardo Kucinski's part political essay, part ghost story 'The Congress of the Disappeared' from the Portuguese into English.

Landowners across Brazil are escalating attacks against Indigenous peoples. While Lula's government appears powerless, landowners are forcibly evicting Indigenous communities, especially where these have reoccupied lands stolen from them previously and to which they will be denied rights under the 'Marco Temporal' (time-limit) rule likely to be approved by the right-wing dominated Congress and already being applied by local judges.

Journalists in the Amazon face unique dangers, as the murders of Dom Philips and Bruno Pereira underlined. Amazônia Latitude interviewed a number of journalists working in the Amazon who stress the need for local journalism, 'committed to life'.

The now-forgotten Tenentes rebellion in São Paulo in 1924 caused widespread destruction, killed many people, and paved the way for Getulio Vargas' reforms in the 1930s and, later, for the dictatorship.

Antonia Melo, a Brazilian environmental defender widely known for her work, especially in opposing the Belo Monte hydro-electric dam on the Xingu River, faces a grave health crisis. An appeal has been launched to help with her health care.

The climate disaster in Brazil’s southernmost state has provoked commotion and solidarity but also questions and criticisms of the man-made causes which contributed to it.