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How Crooks Log, Mine, Enslave and Get Rich in the Brazilian Amazon
The Amazon is the sort of wild place where you often go looking for ...
13 Years Later, After Contributing 37,000 Troops, Brazil Is Ready to Leave Haiti
After 13 years of operations and numerous announcements about the closure date, the Brazilian ...
Brazil Keeps Fining Pedro Cordeiro, a Crook and Land-grabber. But Does He Even Exist?
In April 2017, Brazilian environmental agents fined Pedro Cordeiro US$ 9.2 million for converting ...
Made in Germany, Chocolate Brings Jobs and Helps Preserve the Amazon
With a cigarette in one hand and a muddy machete in the other, Brazilian ...
Brazil’s Corruption? This Is Small Change. The Real Problem Are the 60,000 Killed a Year
Somewhere between outraged and perplexed, Brazilians have been bombarded with news about their political ...
Can’t Maintain Order? In Brazil They Call the Army
Brazil’s military is getting a serious workout these days. The authorities have recently deployed ...
Let Down by Brazil, Indian Leader Goes to Europe to Save His People and the Forest
Ladio Veron, leader of Brazil’s indigenous Guarani-Kaiowá people, is touring Europe and making a ...
Brazil’s Genocide Project for Blacks: 70% of Those Murdered Are Black
African-descendants in Brazil are 23.5 percent more likely to be killed than any other ...
Indians, Environment, Social Movements, They Are All Losers in the New Brazil
“The first five months of 2017 have been the most violent this century,” Cândido ...
Brazil NGOs Need a New Business Model. Brazilians Generosity Might Help with That
For many years, large foreign financiers, such as foundations and multilateral funds, were the ...