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Brazil

Brazil: Can the Cerrado be saved?

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BBC Radio 4's 'Costing the Earth' visits this precious ecosystem that is being destroyed at breakneck speed.

Jovem Negro Vivo

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30,000 young people are assassinated every year in Brazil. Of these 77 per cent are black. We want to see these young people...

Brazil: controversy over Creative Commons

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A controversy is raging over the decision by Ana de Holanda, the new Minister of Culture, to withdraw the Creative Commons licence from the ministry's website. The Brazilian journalist, Pedro Ayres, gives his views.

Brazil: ‘Malvinas’ moment for the armed forces?

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Have Brazil's armed forces been discredited, again, by their backing for Bolsonaro, his kleptocracy and his attempt to steal the elections?

Lula’s Brazil

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This essay, written by the influential British Marxist historian Perry Anderson and published by the London Review of Books, first summarises Lula's achievements in his two terms of government and then looks at the radically different

BRAZIL: ANGER OVER ACQUITTAL

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Activists in Marabá are angry that the man accused of murdering Amazon activists José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva and Maria do Espírito Santo has been acquitted.

Two military leaders of Eldorado dos Carajás massacre jailed

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Sixteen years after the event, the two commanders of the Eldorado dos Carajas massacre, in which 19 people were killed, are finally jailed.

New form of activism in rural Brazil

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Young people in the eastern Amazon are rediscovering their culture and identity through a programme initiated by Dan Baron Cohen, a UK activist.

BRAZIL’S MENSALAO TRIAL: POLITICAL TRIAL OR FAIR SENTENCES?

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One of Brazil’s most controversial Supreme Court trials has just ended after four months. In a special article for LAB Jan Rocha reports from Sao Paulo.

The Amazon Summit: some progress; contradictions remain

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The Amazon Summit in Belém, Brazil, brought together 8 out of the 9 countries of the Amazon Basin. There were agreements, calls for western countries to share the burden of conserving the forest. But no explicit target on halting deforestation and no willingness to halt oil extraction.

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