Voices in New York – LAB Newsletter April 2019
26 April 2019
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
The shocking suicide of former President Alan García, as police arrived to arrest, may have been planned in...
Bolsonaro: from bananas to pineapples
São Paulo, April 5: ‘If he sees a banana skin on the pavement across the road, he will cross over to slip on it’,...
Water for Life
On 22 March, World Water Day, CONIC, Christian Aid and CREAS launched an online training course for faith communities in Brazil: 'Water for Life....
Bolsonaro’s people: the Amazon, indigenous and landless at risk
President-elect Jair Bolsonaro has chosen Ricardo Salles as Brazil’s environment minister. The former São Paulo state government environment secretary is under investigation for...
To end Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
In November-December 2018 Christian Aid promoted a Month of Awareness of Gender Based Violence, working with its partners in the region, around the International...
The Mad Hatter’s tea-party: Bolsonaro chooses his cabinet
São Paulo, 3 December: During the election campaign, president-elect Jair Bolsonaro boasted he would pare the number of cabinet ministers down from its present...
Brazil: on the eve of elections, Haddad up, Bolsonaro down
São Paulo, October 23. On the eve of the second round of the presidential elections, armed police and officials from electoral tribunals invaded at...
Brazil’s elections: Christian churches sound the alarm
On Sunday 28 October, Brazil will elect a new President in the middle of the worst political crisis since the dictatorship in the 1960s....
Bolsonaro’s dirty tricks
An avalanche of millions of anti-PT messages, most of them slanderous lies or fake news, has inundated the screens of Brazilian WhatsApp users in...
Brazil’s indigenous cultures: fragile or flexible?
Film: Ex-Pajé (Ex-shaman) (80 minutes)
Directed by Luiz Bolognesi, 2018
With Perpera Suruí, Kabena Cinta Larga, Ubiratan Suruí and Agamenon Suruí… as themselves.
Films about Indians deep...
