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In Praise of Social Media in Brazil and All Over the World
Facebook now has 2.37 billion active users, not to mention owning WhatsApp and Instagram. ...
While World Demand for Slave-free Coffee Grows, Brazil Finds Ways to Cheat Consumers
As the coffee harvest drew to a close in the rolling hills of southeastern ...
US$ 30 Bi: The Cost to Replace the 8.4 Million Soccer Fields of Deforested Amazon Lost in Last Decade
This year, I was on the judging panel for the Royal Statistical Society’s International ...
AIDS and Fatherless Kids, the Legacy of Brazilians and Others in Haiti’s UN Mission
Marie* was 14 years old and enrolled in a Christian school when she met ...
Dandarah, a Brazilian App Offers Panic Button and Safe Spaces to LGBT+ Population
An app that maps safe spaces for LGBT+ people and features a panic button ...
Brazilian Evangelical Gangs Go to War Against Afro-Brazilian Faiths, in the Name of God
The expression “evangelical drug trafficker” may sound incongruous, but in the Brazilian city of ...
Big Agribusiness Threatens Livelihood of 400.000 Coconut Breakers in Brazil’s Cerrado
Every September for half a century, Maria Antônia Trindade Mendes has started the babassu ...
Lula Livre: Brazil’s Supreme Court Decision That Freed Lula Was a Mistake
Lula is free. On Friday, November 8, former President Lula walked out of prison ...
It’s Time We Call the Killings of Blacks in Brazil by Its Proper Name: Genocide
Genocide, as defined by the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment ...
Linked to Death of Politician, Brazil President Threatens to Cancel Globo TV’s License
Brazilian President, Jair Bolsonaro, deplored a TV network’s report linking him with a former ...
