Saturday, March 22, 2025

Chapter 8 - State violence, policing and paramilitaries

Rio’s Citizen Journalists fight police brutality

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Papo Reto, Portuguese for “Straight Talk”, formed as a citizens’ journalist collective in 2010 in response to government efforts to rid Complexo...

How Mexico’s government controls journalism

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Journalists in Mexico face many dangers, especially when they're covering the country's ongoing drug war. Video: Al Jazeera English, May 2018

Stinging ants: Amazon indigenous group girds itself to hold ancestral lands

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by Thaís Borges & Sue Branford The ancestral home of the Sateré-Mawé indigenous group is the Andirá-Marau Indigenous Reserve, an officially demarcated, heavily...

Brazil’s Indigenous lands: Bolsonaro draws the battle lines

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by Thaís Borges & Sue Branford Parintins, site of Brazil’s big annual indigenous festival, is typical of towns in the Brazilian Amazon. The...

Las otras voces – la caravana de madres de migrantes desaparecidos

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The program 'Las Otras Voces' presents the Caravan of Mothers of Disappeared Migrants, those who come from Central and South America and pass through...

The life of Brazil’s Marielle Franco

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Marielle Franco was a rising political star in Brazil: she was an activist, the only Black woman to serve on Rio de Janeiro’s...

Violence in Latin America – explained in 6 charts

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Latin America is often on the news for its gang violence and brute use of police force. In this video we analyse the...

Queremos ver os jovens vivos! (Infográficos)

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Dramatic, animated infographics showing the number of young people being assassinated in Brazil, and making comparisons with countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan. Part...

Jovem Negro Vivo

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30,000 young people are assassinated every year in Brazil. Of these 77 per cent are black. We want to see these young people...

The Heirs: the legacy of violence in Colombia

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Right-wing paramilitaries, the heirs of the infamous death squads, have started to re-emerge in Colombia. Programme presented by Teresa Bo. Video: Al Jazeera (English), 9...

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