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Renewing the Five Bows: indigenous resistance in Bahía, Brazil

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Dan Baron Cohen and Manoela Souza first collaborated with the Pataxó People in Coroa Vermelha, Porto Seguro, South-East Bahia, in 2000, to build a...

Covid-19 threat to Quilombos near mine

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This article was first published by The Intercept on 18 March. It was translated for LAB by Chris Whitehouse. You can read the original...

Brazil: bringing the Word or the Coronavirus?

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As the coronavirus spreads around the globe, with more than 300 known cases already in Brazil, and members of Pres. Jair Bolsonaro’s...

Brazil: bonanza for timber exporters

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Forest degradation nearly doubled in the Brazilian Amazon last year, rising from 4,946 square kilometers in 2018, to 9,167 square kilometers in...

The final offensive against Brazil’s indigenous people

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The anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro discusses indigenous resistance in the Amazon, the indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, and his pessimism about the climate crisis Translated by Tom...

Illegal mining poisons the Amazon

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A new film by Jorge Bodansky analyzes the mercury contamination of Amazonian rivers as a result of illegal mining.

Destruction in the Amazon – it’s not lawlessness, it’s the law

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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro aroused global indignation in November when he affirmed: ‘Look, you’re not going to do away with deforestation, or the burning – its...

The indigenous midwives of the Amazon

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In the villages of Tabatinga, Amazonas, Ticuna midwives work according to ancestral traditions, honing their skills generation after generation. However, they remain unrecognised by the state. Translated...

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