Watching the Brazilian political scene is a
bit like watching an old disaster movie, where a suicidal maniac has taken over
the plane’s controls and put it into a steep dive, while members of the crew wrestle
with him to avert the crash.
A typical disaster movie of the genre.
See featured...
Veteran journalist Luis Nassif explains the
Military’s silent and gradual seizure of power from President Bolsonaro in five
acts.
This is an edited version of the article
published in Brasil Wire and translated by Brian Mier. The original in
Portuguese was
published by GGN.
Act 1 – How they got...
By Emily Gregg, edited by Mike Gatehouse, with additional material from Peru & Haiti Support Groups UK and LAB correspondents in the regionLAB has put together this third overview of the spread of coronavirus across the region and the reaction of governments and politicians. With our limited resources we could not hope to provide a truly comprehensive...
Open and poorly treated
wounds, food waste on the cell floor, rat faeces, little ventilation, water
rationing, insects everywhere. While some inmates do not even get up from their
beds, such is their weak state of health, others are stuck in wheelchairs. To
wash one’s body or one’s hands or clean any object prisoners have to wait for a
hole in...
LAB received this article from Venezuelan National Science Prize winner Victor Álvarez. It is a follow-up to his earlier appeal for a coalition government to involve both Maduro and Guaidó.
Translated for LAB by Jasmine Haniff.
Placing a price on the heads of
Maduro and his...
Christian Aid and its partners have been working to tackle violence and build peace in Colombia for more than two decades. Three years ago, shortly after the government of Colombia signed a Peace Agreement with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Christian Aid’s Research, Evidence and Learning team began to design Ten Years,...
This article was translated for LAB by Chloe Budd. You can read the original (in Spanish) here.
Main image: Raya, an old Nahua. More than half of his village was destroyed after the land opened to oil exploration. Image: Survival International
They...
Health officials from SESAI — the federal government’s body in charge of health services for indigenous people — were sent to monitor indigenous people in the Lago Grande village in Amazonas state. Image courtesy of Santo Antônio do Içá heath department.
3 April 2020
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
A 20-year-old Kokama indigenous
woman in northern Amazonas state tested positive for the virus,
according to the federal government’s body in charge of health services
for indigenous people in Brazil (SESAI).She is one of
27 people who are being monitored after being in contact with Dr.
Matheus Feitosa, who was diagnosed with COVID-19 last week. Feitosa is...
This
article was written in early March, before the effects of Covid-19 virus became
clear. Since then the national elections scheduled for 3 May have been
postponed, at least until June, but almost certainly until October or later.
The postponement was announced by the Supreme Electoral Court on 21 March,
although no new date was fixed.