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Grading Coke and Pepsi on Their Efforts to Curb Land Grab in Brazil’s Sugar Industry
Coca-Cola and PepsiCo’s efforts to stop illegal land seizures by sugar suppliers in Brazil ...
Brazilian Land Rights Activist Shot Dead in Hospital While Recovering from Assassination Attempt
Waldomiro Costa Pereira, an activist with the Landless Workers Movement, MST, was killed when ...
Despite Street Protests Brazil President Goes Ahead with Pension Reform
Brazil’s president Michel Temer and senior lawmakers are still unwavering in their support ...
When Housing Rights for Brazil’s Poor Clash with Drinkable Water for 5 Million
On the fringes of São Paulo, hundreds of makeshift dwellings fashioned from discarded ...
Brazilians Pour onto Streets Demanding a Halt to Reforms and the President’s Ousting
Brazilians took to the streets in a nationwide protest on Wednesday against President Michel ...
World Champion in C-section, Brazil Celebrates that Normal Birth Is Up 1%
Since 2009, Brazil became the first country in the world where more babies ...
Priest Couldn’t Get Rid of Evil Spirit. So Brazil’s President Moved Out of His Palace
In an interview to weekly news magazine Veja, Brazilian President, Michel Temer, confided what ...
How the Rio Olympic Games Helped the Wealthy and Hurt the Poor
The Olympic Games revealed the deep socioeconomic and political contradictions of Brazil and helped ...
Brazilians Special Kind of Blindness: They Can’t See They Are Racist
University of Arizona anthropologist Jennifer Roth-Gordon spent 10 days in Brazil leading up to ...
For Women, Brazilian Prison Is a Lawless House of Horrors
To enter the unsanitary, violent, and inhumane cells of Brazil’s prisons is to step ...