Land in Brazil

Though the media in Brazil pays little attention to it, rural violence against indigenous and landless workers is on the increase.

Re-thinking the city of São Paulo

Rio de Janeiro has long been celebrated for the way in which the rich in their luxury apartments live cheek by jowl with the poor, crowded into favelas perched on the hillside, but this is all changing.

Because of the flurry of anti--indigenous legislation in the Brazilian Congress, Indians have decided that the only way to save their land and their culture is through direct action.

MST leader João Pedro Stédile says that "political reform" is the only solution for the country's political crisis

With some of the largest forest fires in decades and a burst dam resulting in the country’s worst environmental disaster to date, it has...