Last week I went to Manaus for a conference. It was 40 years since the first time I'd been there. Manaus then was a small town of elegant old houses dating from the rubber boom, built around the grandiose Opera House, a town of precarious shanties
The recent rains in the north of Argentina caused mudslides that devastated the town of Tartagal. Indigenous activists have been mobilising to stop the deforestation responsible for the disaster (in Spanish)
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The Sunday Times has an interesting article on Brazilian Indians today. The journalist Chrstina Lamb went back to the region visited by Norman Lewis 40 years ago.