Tag: COVID-19
Amid Covid-19, App with Facial Recognition Gets Food and Money to Brazil Favelas
As Brazil faces one of the worst Covid-19 outbreaks in the world, a smartphone ...
We Don’t Want Alms or Glass Beads, But Respect, Says Brazilian Indigenous Leader
Interview with indigenous chief Alvaro Tukano on the situation of indigenous peoples in Brazil ...
Brazil’s 13 Million Favela Residents Forced to Fight Coronavirus by Themselves
When the novel coronavirus began spreading in Brazil, it was predominantly wealthy people who ...
Brazil’s Coronavirus Hunger Games: Indigenous Communities and Their Struggle for Survival
With coronavirus infections steeply rising, Brazil is now the second placed country in the ...
Brazil and US: The Unmasked Leaders
It’s a masked world. One man wearing a mask is odd. He could be ...
Trying Social Distancing in a Brazil That Doesn’t Believe in Personal Space Boundaries
Here in Brazil, like the rest of the world, we are under lockdown. Every ...
Amazon Indians’ Doctor with Coronavirus Brings Fear of an Extermination
A doctor working with the largest tribe in the Amazon has tested positive for ...
Brazil President Keeps Churches Open and Calls Governors Criminals for Imposing Lockdowns
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro blasted as criminals the governors and mayors of Brazil’s largest ...
Amazon Indians Fear Coronavirus Amid a Campaign to Convert Them to Christianity
Indigenous leaders in Brazil are acting to avert the devastating impact coronavirus could have ...
