Senti-pensarnos Tierra – CLACSO Boletin No.1, October 2020
Contributions include:
* El Extractivismo no está en cuarantena - Patricia Gualinga
* A Força da Sucuri - Mekaron-ti Txucarramãe
*Pajés e curandeiros contra o coronavirus - Thodá Kanamari
* A Covid-19 na Amazônia brasileira - Lino João da Oliveira Neves
* Covid-19, transmissão comunitária e óbitos. Como a Pandemia chegou aos Cintas-Largas em Mato Grosso e Rondônia - João del Pos, María Inês Hargreaves
* Pandemia, racismo y genocidio de indígenas y negros en Brasil. El coronavirus y la política del exterminio - Felipe Milanes y Samuel Vida
* Memoria. Morreu Artiana Yawalapíti!
* Silencio, choro e luto com o Xingu - Felipe Milanes
Mining victims denounce ‘genocide legalized by the state’
Residents of traditional communities in the Brazilian Amazon municipality of Barcarena, near the mouth of the Amazon River, say that their subsistence and commercial livelihoods, and their health, have been destroyed by an invasion of mining companies which began in the mid-1980’s. This story is the fifth in a series.
Brazil: diversity does well, but the moderates are the winners
Bolsonaro and his brand of extreme right wing politics have emerged as the big losers in Brazil’s recent local elections, but established left wing parties have not done so well either. Jan Rocha reports.
Bolsonaro — the new Jim Jones
President Bolsonaro is the new 'Jim Jones', says Jan Rocha, comparing the Brazilian president to the cult leader who led his followers in a mass suicide in Guayana in 1978.
The Amazon: Covid-19 exploited to get power lines built
by Marianna Leite and Mike Gatehouse
Plans to build a massive EHV 230 kV power line 225 kms long from Óbidos in Pará state across...
Living in the shadow of Amazon tailings dams
by Thaís Borges & Sue Branford
Mineração Rio do Norte (MRN), the world’s fourth largest bauxite producer, encroached on riverine communities beside the Trombetas River...
Frontiers of Development in the Amazon: Riches, Risks, and Resistances
Frontiers of Development in the Amazon: Riches, Risks, and Resistances contributes to ongoing debates on the processes of change in the Amazon, a region...
Rapid deforestation may fuel pandemics
by Thaís Borges & Sue Branford
Nearly 25,000 COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in Brazil, with 1,378 deaths as of April 15, though some experts...
Brazil: Indigenous people in the Amazon brace for coronavirus
This article is available on Deutsche Welle's English website. You can read the original Portuguese article here.
Main image: Dr Erik Jennings (left) has been...
Indigenous peoples: why it matters to us all if they catch...
This article was translated for LAB by Chloe Budd. You can read the original (in Spanish) here.
Main image: Raya, an old Nahua....