Michael Fox

September 22, 2020

Over 7 million acres of the Pantanal has gone up in smoke — roughly 50% more than all of the land that has burned so far along the entire US West Coast.

Human rights

Brazil’s Indigenous peoples fight COVID-19 in their territories amid government neglect

The World

September 04, 2020

The coronavirus has infected 30,000 Brazilian Indigenous people, and almost 800 have died. They are taking action to protect themselves, blaming officials for inaction.

COVID-19: The latest from The World

Brazil’s Indigenous communities suffer grave losses from coronavirus

The World

August 25, 2020

More than 700 Indigenous people have died from the coronavirus while more than 27,000 have been infected across 155 tribes. The loss of many ancestral leaders is taking its toll.

Displacement

Brazilian housing movements fight surging evictions amid coronavirus

The World

August 12, 2020

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, more than 1,700 families have been thrown out of their homes just in the state of São Paulo, according to the Observatory of Forced Removals at the ABC University.

Why is Brazil's Bolsonaro peddling hydroxychloroquine despite the science?

The World

July 22, 2020

The Brazilian president has used his illness as a platform to sell both his cynicism about the coronavirus and social restrictions, and his praise for chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine.

Indigenous mothers in Brazil mourning their children's deaths seek closure

The World

July 10, 2020

For more than a month, four mothers of the Sanöma tribe were looking for the bodies of their children in the Roraima state capital. Officials eventually said they'd been buried under suspicion of having COVID-19, according to protocol — but the mothers said they weren't notified.

Fires and coronavirus are a deadly combination for the Amazon’s Indigenous people

The World

July 02, 2020

In Brazil, the Amazon has been hard hit by the coronavirus. Now, as the dry season begins, people are bracing for a repeat of last year’s Amazon fires. Indigenous communities are especially vulnerable.

COVID-19: The latest from The World

Paulinho Paiakan is remembered as a hero to Indigenous Brazilians

The World

June 22, 2020

As Brazil tops 1 million confirmed cases of the coronavirus, the country’s Indigenous peoples mourn the death of a historic leader.

COVID-19: The latest from The World

Brazil’s government hid coronavirus stats. Critics say that poses big problems for fighting the pandemic.

The World

June 09, 2020

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06/09/2020 - 10:15pm

This is only the latest of Brazil’s tumultuous fight with the coronavirus. The country has over 710,000 confirmed infections, the second-highest number of cases after the United States. It recently overtook Italy as the country with the third-highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the world, with more than 37,000 deaths.

COVID-19: The latest from The World

Bolsonaro’s ‘so what’ response to coronavirus deaths is the latest in his spiraling political crisis

The World

April 29, 2020

On Monday, the Supreme Court ordered an inquiry into Bolsonaro’s alleged interference with police investigations.

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