Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Chapter 8 - State violence, policing and paramilitaries

Marielle and Monica: the LGBT activists resisting Bolsonaro’s Brazil

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Marielle Franco, Brazilian LGBT and human rights activist, was killed in March 2018. Her widow, Monica Benicio, continued her fight for better ...

The first family, the generals, the oranges and the Cheshire cat

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25 February. It’s less than two months since Jair Bolsonaro was sworn in as president, but so much has happened that it seems like...

Brazil: gunmen attack indigenous community in Porto Alegre

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It is not only in the Amazon and remote rural areas that indigenous lands are coming under increased pressure as the new Bolsonaro government...

Bolsonaro’s people: the Amazon, indigenous and landless at risk

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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...

Guatemala: the echo of pain

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Documentary film by Ana Lucía Cuevas centres on a filmmaker's search for answers about what happened to her brother, his wife and child, all abducted during the Guatemalan Civil War.

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