Brazil Opposed to Military Options in Libya Crisis
Foreign ministers from Brazil, India and South Africa will meet in Delhi from 7-8 March. Patriota will seek support for Brazil's position that no kind of foreign military intervention should occur in Libya.
Brazil: the latest round in the Guarani struggle
At the end of February, the trial was held of the men accused of killing the Guarani leader Marcos Verón in 2003. Jan Rocha, who was at the trial, sent this special report.
WikiLeaks: Why Brazil matters to US climate policy-makers
The leaks, brought together by redd-monitor.org, give a fascinting glimpse into U.S. climate policy towards Brazil, particularly its concern that Brazil should favour carbon trading.
Obama’s Latin American tour
At the end of March, President Obama will make his first official visit to Latin America. Aleksander Aguilar looks at why he has chosen to visit Brazil, Chile and El Salvador.
Brazil: Belo Monte dam ruling reversed
While the country was absorbed in the annual Carnival, construction work began on the controversial Belo Monte hydroelectric power station, after a higher court overruled an earlier judicial decision to halt the project on envrionmental and social grou
Brazil: tension in Sister Dorothy’s settlement
Six years after Sister Dorothy Stang was murdered, settlers are once more being threatened by loggers near where she lived in the state of Pará.
South America threatened by fast glacier thaw
The Andean glaciers are melting so rapidly that soon South America may be faced with millions of climate refugees, something that could destabilise the whole continent.
Uncontacted Amazon Indians: remarkable footage
New photos obtained by Survival International show uncontacted Indians in extraordinary detail. The Indians are living in Brazil, near the Peruvian border.
Brazil: Social movements reject Belo Monte
60 non-governmental organisations have attacked the partial go-head given to the Belo Monte hydroelectric power station by IBAMA, the federal government’s environmental agency.
Brazil’s MST demands land reform
Activists from Brazil's Landless Movement (MST) are calling on the new President, Dilma Rousseff, to radically reform the country's old agrarian structures, which, they say, perpetuate inequality, injustice and violence.