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...
Amazon frontier: The Third Bank of the River
BOOK REVIEW
Chris Feliciano Arnold, The Third Bank of the River. New York: Picador 2018
This book has been classified as ‘travel-writing’, but it is much...
Brazil: the impact of hydroelectric dams
LAB correspondent Marilene Cardoso Riveiro has made a beautiful short video, entitled 'Costs', about the impact of hydroelectric dams in Brazil on the communities...
Brazil: aluminium company owns up to spill
Norsk Hydro’s Alunorte aluminum refining facility in Barcarena municipality, Pará state, has been accused by Brazilian authorities of contaminating the local waters of...
Brazil announces end to Amazon mega-dam building policy
Brazil’s government this week announced a major shift away from its policy of building mega-dams in the Brazilian Amazon – a strategy born...
The Ghosts of Elections-LAB Newsletter 21 December 2017
20 December 2017
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
The ghosts of elections past, present and future
Across the world, polls this year have been confounded as...
The Amazon be dammed: Ecuador’s China connection
In 2008, Ecuador, led by President Rafael Correa, approved a new constitution based upon Buen Vivir (the ”Good Life”),...
Brazil: Sojourn in Santarém
Jan Rocha takes a break from her usual razor-sharp analyses of Brazil's political landscape. Yet, even in Santarém, Pará, where the Tapajos river joins...
The Amazon: Mundurukú standoff against dam builders
This article was first published on Mongabay on 17 October 2017. You can read the original here. The same article has been translated for...
Amazônia: Tensão em confronto entre povo Munduruku e Consórcios Hidrelétricos
Em 13 de Outubro, 80 guerreiros, guerreiras e pajés Munduruku tentaram realizar rituais no canteiro de obras da hidrelétrica de São Manoel no...