Human Rights
Without Police, Rio’s Drug Lords Show Who Are the Bosses in the Favelas
After the Brazilian government spent tens of millions of dollars securing the city of ...
The Hands of the American Koch Brothers in Brazil’s Street Protests and Rousseff’s Ouster
Harsh austerity. A 20-year public spending freeze. A non-elected government. A coup backed by ...
By Law Kids Cannot Hold a Job in Brazil. Three Million of Them Work Anyway
Brazil’s Prosecution Service for Labor (MPT) is launching a national campaign against child labor. ...
China’s Appetite for Soy Is Turning Brazil’s Amazon into a Shantytown
Over the last 40 years, the north of the state of Mato Grosso has ...
Brazil Prisons: Where the Criminals Are the Ones Running the Show
The prison population throughout Latin America has been growing steadily for the past few ...
How the Press Joined Conservatives to Keep Illegal Slave Trade Alive in Brazil
The negative influence of the Brazilian press on the illegal slave trade is analyzed ...
Brazil: The Day the Munduruku Found Out the Police Were Not Their Friend
The Tapajós River Basin lies at the heart of the Amazon, and at the ...
A Few Examples of How Societal Fascism Is Alive and Well in Brazil
In 1940 Walter Benjamin wrote his Theses on the Concept of History prompted by ...
Brazil’s Prison Riot: The Unspeakable Pain of Burying Your Beheaded Child
The prison massacre in Alcaçuz Penitentiary on January 14, which killed at least 26 ...
For Brazilian Indians the Bad from Rousseff’s Era Has Become Worse
In addition to being a politician and a constitutionalist lawyer, President Michel Temer is ...
