Brazil’s Social Movements and the Olympics
LAB has been listening to leaders of Brazil's social movements to hear the messages they want to get across to the 10,000 journalists in Rio for the Olympics.
Brazil: Eight months after the tailings dam disaster
Families still homeless, fishing suspended, drinking water suspect, reports Greenpeace Brazil
Brazil: racism of Temer government threatens quilombos
Brazil's new government has dissolved INCRA, threatening land rights of the country's quilombos
Brazil — recolonising a continent
So what are prospects for the left in the face of a concerted US-backed right-wing offensive? Left-wing activists in Brazil give us their views.
BNDES 5: The Bank for for continental dam construction
Working through IIRSA, the Bank is funding dam construction throughout South America.
BNDES 4: The Bank and Belo Monte
Without the bank, BNDES would not have been built. But this massive act of environmental hubris is fraught with problems.
BNDES 3: The Bank for the Four Sisters
The rise of the Brazil's giant construction companies is intimately linked to power, corruption and bank loans
BNDES 2: The Bank for Business Credit
Bolsa Familia has helped Brazil's poor. Dubbed 'Bolsa Empresário', BNDES has helped big business and the rich.
Terra do Meio – Sue Branford’s 2016 journey
Sue Branford journeys to Terra do Meio to meet local communities in a remote part of the Amazon