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.
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.
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