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• Visualised: how all of G20 is missing climate goals — but some nations are closer than others

  07-12-2023 09:43 via theguardian.com
  As world leaders gather at Cop28, these charts show how far away the major economies are from their targetsNot a single G20 country has policies in place that are consistent with the Paris agreement’s goal of limiting global heating to 1.5C and meeting their “fair share” of emissions reduction.The assessment, based on data up to 5 December provided by the Climate Action Tracker, comes as leaders gather in Dubai for the Cop28 conference. Continue reading...
  
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• Feminism in pictures: illustrated stories of women’s rights around the world

  05-12-2023 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Three female artists, from Kenya, Brazil and Turkey, describe how their creative vision helped them draw attention to the fight for equality As a woman dressed in mid-thigh jean shorts hops on to a music-blaring, graffiti-covered bus in Nairobi city centre, the conductor gropes her and hollers: “You’re looking sexy, baby.” Continue reading...
  
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• The Safest Place in the World review – the true cost of a lethal Brazilian dam collapse

  04-12-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Aline Lata and Helena Wolfenson’s moving documentary shows the after-effects of the 2015 Mariana dam failure and the psychological damage which is still being feltThe deadly 2015 Mariana dam failure was one of the worst environmental disasters in Brazilian history, leaving hundreds of residents in the district of Bento Rodrigues displaced. Showing the tidal waves of muddy water engulfing countless houses, the harrowing mobile phone footage that opens this intimate documentary witnesses the
  
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• Lula’s bid to style himself climate leader at Cop28 undermined by Opec move

  02-12-2023 13:00 via theguardian.com
  Brazilian president’s plans to approve new fossil fuel projects sit awkwardly with pledge to meet 1.5C targetThe Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has roared into Cop28 with a mega-delegation of more than 2,000 people and grand ambitions to address inequality and protect the world’s tropical forests.Lula, as he is known, said his country was leading by example: “We have adjusted our climate goals, which are now more ambitious than those of many developed co
  
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• ‘A biodiversity catastrophe’: how the world could look in 2050 – unless we act now

  29-11-2023 06:00 via theguardian.com
  The climate crisis, invasive species, overexploitation of resources and pollution could break down crucial ecosystems. We asked experts to lay out the risks and offer some solutionsThe continued destruction of nature across the planet will result in major shocks to food supplies and safe water, the disappearance of unique species and the loss of landscapes central to human culture and leisure by the middle of this century, experts have warned.By 2050, if humanity does not follow through on commi
  
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• Pictures of Ghosts review – Brazilian auteur haunted by his home town’s decline

  28-11-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Kleber Mendonça Filho offers a poetic but somewhat unfocused memoir-essay about place, cinema and timeHome is clearly where the art is for Bacurau director Kleber Mendonça Filho, whose childhood apartment is the locus of the first part of this poetic but somewhat bemused memoir-essay about place, cinema and time. Twice renovated by his historian mother, the apartment was the site of his first early imaginative forays behind the camera, and appeared in his first two features, Neighb
  
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• Verdant Inferno/A Scabby Black Brazilian by Alberto Rangel/ Jean-Christophe Goddard review – an Amazonian beauty

  26-11-2023 14:00 via theguardian.com
  Two republished titles sharing the same cover – one a Brazilian classic, the other a philosophical blurring of genres – deliver head-spinning insights into life in the rainforestIn this book … Already, three words into my review, this most straightforward way of beginning seems inaccurate, ham-fisted. Is this a book? Verdant Inferno/A Scabby Black Brazilian is published by Urbanomic, whose stated aim is “to act as an advocate for philosophical thinking as a creative prac
  
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• Must the show go on? Taylor Swift fan death highlights danger of live shows as Earth cooks

  23-11-2023 15:44 via theguardian.com
  Temperatures reached 102F in Rio last Friday as 60,000 people packed into the Estádio Olímpico Nilton Santos for Swift’s concertIn Brazil, a tropical country whose famed Carnival celebrations are held at the peak of summer, hot weather is not usually considered an obstacle to music events.“For Brazilians, the heat is part of our identity construction … We’re a country that deals well with heat, we’re proud of that,” said Nubia Armond, a geograph
  
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• ‘It is all about listening and sharing’: Indigenous solutions to the carbon divide

  22-11-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Deforestation rates are much lower on Indigenous land – and there is growing recognition that first peoples have vital role to play• The great carbon divideLike most climate heroes, Francy Baniwa does not consider herself anything of the sort. A writer and activist of the Baniwa people from the Alto Rio Negro Indigenous territory in the Brazilian Amazon, she is part of a community of 25,000 people which protects an area of rainforest the size of Scotland.Thanks to the presence and nat
  
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• Bolsonaro under investigation for ‘harassing’ humpback whale

  19-11-2023 15:45 via theguardian.com
  Man resembling Brazilian ex-president seemingly spotted on a jetski about 15 metres from distressed mammalFederal police are investigating Brazil’s former president, Jair Bolsonaro, for yet another suspected misdeed: “harassing” a humpback whale while taking a public holiday spin on his jetski.Bolsonaro’s anti-environmental policies earned him the nickname “Captain Chainsaw” during a four-year administration characterised by soaring destruction of the Amazon.
  
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• ‘Hell de Janeiro’: scorching heat highlights Brazil’s glaring inequality

  19-11-2023 12:02 via theguardian.com
  
  It felt like 58.5C in Rio on Tuesday – and the soaring, indeed dangerous, temperatures are hitting the poorest hardestThe start of summer in the southern hemisphere is still a month away, but Brazil has already experienced its eighth heatwave of the year so far, as temperatures soar to dangerously high levels.Large swathes of the country were put under red alert this week by Inmet, the national meteorological institute, which warned of risks to health “and even life” as tempera
  
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• Taylor Swift postpones Rio concert after fan dies amid heatwave

  18-11-2023 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Singer says safety comes first after death of Ana Clara Benevides Machado, 23, in sweltering stadiumTaylor Swift’s concert in Brazil on Saturday night has been postponed after a fan died shortly before the start of her gig in Rio de Janeiro on Friday.The show’s organisers, Time4Fun (T4F), said in a statement that paramedics had attended to Ana Clara Benevides Machado, 23, at the concert venue and taken her to a hospital, where she died an hour later. Continue reading...
  
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• Taylor Swift fan dies before Brazil concert amid sweltering conditions

  18-11-2023 16:01 via theguardian.com
  Singer ‘devastated’ by death of Ana Clara Benevides Machado, 23, who reportedly fainted and had cardiac arrestTaylor Swift has said she is “devastated” after a fan died shortly before the start of her show in Rio de Janeiro on Friday.The show’s organiser, T4F (Time for Fun), said in a statement yesterday that paramedics had attended to Ana Clara Benevides Machado, 23, at the concert venue and taken her to a hospital, where she died an hour later. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘If it doesn’t smell like funk, something’s wrong with your recipe’: Brazilian baile funk goes global, again

  14-11-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Four decades after it originated in the favelas of Rio, a new wave of the electronic music genre is exploding on TikTok, and inspiring the likes of Cardi B and Travis ScottHarsh, thunderous kicks; offbeat, crispy cymbals; powerful – sometimes incomprehensible – vocals, all preferably blasted out of sturdy speakers. This is the sound of baile funk, an electronic music born 40 years ago the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and one of the most thrilling and downright weird sounds to e
  
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• The mass protest decade: why did the street movements of the 2010s fail? – podcast

  13-11-2023 06:00 via theguardian.com
  From Brazil to Egypt, Turkey to Hong Kong, the 2010s saw a series of huge public uprisings. Yet many of them led to the opposite of what they asked for. I spoke to 200 participants across 12 countries to find out why Continue reading...
  
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• How a Brazilian prison gang became an international criminal leviathan

  11-11-2023 16:00 via theguardian.com
  The PCC – First Capital Command – arose in the country’s notoriously brutal penitentiaries 30 years ago but now controls a billion-dollar drug trade supplying much of Europe’s cocaineIn a forest clearing deep in the Brazilian Amazon, a bullet-scarred Venezuelan gangster sat smoking Colombian skunk.“Everyone knows there are only two things this life leads to: prison or death,” the drug dealer said as he narrated his 15-year criminal trajectory, from a teenage r
  
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• Ex-minister Gavin Williamson warned as he takes job at payment card provider

  09-11-2023 16:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Advisory Committee on Business Appointments tells MP Lanistar role must not make use of contacts within government The former cabinet minister Gavin Williamson has taken a job at firm launching a payment card “built for the influencer lifestyle”, which was previously hit with a consumer warning by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and currently only offers its product in Brazil.Williamson has gained permission to join the advisory board of Lanistar, whose website says it wants to
  
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• ‘Things were really ugly’: how one of Brazil’s greatest records was nearly not made

  09-11-2023 11:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Two of Brazil’s greatest stars – singer Elis Regina and composer Tom Jobim – came together for a project saved by a whiskerThey were two of Brazil’s biggest stars – the singer Elis Regina and the bossa nova trailblazer Tom Jobim – and they had come together in California hoping to make music history.“It’s not every day Brazil’s greatest singer records with Brazil’s greatest composer,” Elis Regina’s music producer son, Jo&ati
  
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• ‘Things were really ugly’: Elis & Tom album almost didn’t happen, new documentary reveals

  09-11-2023 11:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Brazil’s two greatest stars – singer Elis Regina and composer Tom Jobim – came together for a project saved by a whiskerThey were two of Brazil’s biggest stars – the singer Elis Regina and the bossa nova trailblazer Tom Jobim – and they had come together in California hoping to make music history.“It’s not every day Brazil’s greatest singer records with Brazil’s greatest composer,” Regina’s music producer son, João Ma
  
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• Why is the Amazon rainforest drying up? - podcast

  09-11-2023 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Ian Sample talks to Guardian global environment editor Jon Watts about the withering drought currently devastating the Amazon rainforest. Jon explains the complex mix of factors that are driving the drought, and considers whether it might be a catalyst for more concerted climate action in Brazil and beyondClips: Freesounds archive Continue reading...
  
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• Two with suspected Hezbollah links held in Brazil over alleged terror plot

  08-11-2023 19:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Arrests made by police on Wednesday over reported plot to launch terror attacks against Jewish community in BrazilBrazilian federal police have arrested two men with suspected links to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah who were reportedly plotting to launch terror attacks against the Jewish community in Brazil.The arrests were made on Wednesday during what police called an operation to “interrupt preparations for acts of terrorism and obtain evidence about the possible recruitment of B
  
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• ‘You are killing us’: Mariana survivors face ill health, lost culture and a long wait for justice

  07-11-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  When a dam burst eight years ago in a Brazilian mining town, the toxic mud swept downriver, crushing all before it. Affected communities are still fighting in the courts – and mourning a way of life that has disappeared for everMarino D’Ângelo Júnior regularly takes antidepressants and medication to help him sleep. A former resident of Paracatu de Baixo, a district of the city of Mariana in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, the 54-year-old says he has lost his sense o
  
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• Brazil: Lula deploys troops to ports and airports in organised crime crackdown

  06-11-2023 19:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Military intervention to last until May and is reportedly designed to cut off key drug and gun smuggling routesThousands of troops have taken up position in the ports and airports of Rio and São Paulo and along Brazil’s western border as part of efforts to “asphyxiate” organized crime amid an upsurge in bloodshed and violence.The military intervention – ordered last Friday by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – will last until next May and is reporte
  
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• ‘Everything is parched’: drought-stricken Amazon desperately awaits the rains

  06-11-2023 12:35 via theguardian.com
  
  By now, the rivers should be full. But large-scale deforestation, the climate crisis and weather events like El Niño mean Brazil is near the point of no returnCows, dust and smoke. That was what greeted me on my return home to Altamira, after several weeks on the road. An unusually fierce dry season has taken a horrific toll on the Amazonian landscape, swathes of which are already denuded by cattle ranches. Together, they threaten the integrity of the world’s biggest tropical forest
  
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• ‘Everything is parched’: Amazon struggles with drought amid deforestation

  06-11-2023 12:35 via theguardian.com
  
  By now, the rivers should be full. But large-scale cattle farming, the climate crisis and weather events like El Niño mean Brazil is near the point of no returnCows, dust and smoke. That was what greeted me on my return home to Altamira, after several weeks on the road. An unusually fierce dry season has taken a horrific toll on the Amazonian landscape, swathes of which are already denuded by cattle ranches. Together, they threaten the integrity of the world’s biggest tropical fores
  
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• Aggressive deforestation has led to one of the Amazon’s worst droughts

  06-11-2023 12:35 via theguardian.com
  
  By now, the rivers should be full. But large-scale beef farming, the climate crisis and weather events like El Niño mean Brazil is near the point of no returnCows, dust and smoke. That was what greeted me on my return home to Altamira, after several weeks on the road. An unusually fierce dry season has taken a horrific toll on the Amazonian landscape, swathes of which are already denuded by cattle ranches. Together, they threaten the integrity of the world’s biggest tropical forest.
  
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• Skin review – Brazilian city’s protest art maps out supercharged political landscape

  06-11-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In a wordless paean to Belo Horizonte, this film celebrates the graffiti found throughout the streets as an act of resistance against Jair BolsonaroLike large-scale tattoos, colourful murals and graffiti adorn the urban body of Belo Horizonte, a densely populated city in southeastern Brazil. Composed largely of static shots, Marcos Pimentel’s poignant documentary conjures an awe-striking tapestry of artistic expression and revolutionary resistance.Imposing in terms of size, these sprawling
  
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• ‘Funk is the reality we live’: Rio show celebrates sound of the favela

  05-11-2023 14:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Exhibition puts music previously shunned by elites as ‘stuff of outlaws’ in long tradition of black culture and resistanceHebert Amorim was eight when he got his first taste of funk carioca (Rio funk): a pirate CD by Mr Catra, a favela MC famed for his ferociously explicit verses about gangs, guns and sex.“My mum caught me listening to it and went mental,” said the 30-year-old visual artist from Senador Camará, a hardscrabble corner of west Rio de Janeiro where pol
  
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• Why have emerging markets not spiralled into a debt crisis?

  02-11-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Mexico, Brazil, South Africa and Turkey have shown economic resilience despite wave of defaultsAs finance ministers and central bankers convened in Marrakech for the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings on 9-15 October, they faced an extraordinary confluence of economic and geopolitical calamities: wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, a wave of defaults among low- and lower-middle-income economies, a real estate-driven slump in China, and a surge in long-term global interes
  
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• ‘For us, the Amazon isn’t a cause, it’s our home’: the riverside communities stranded by the climate crisis

  31-10-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The historic drought in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has reduced the Rio Negro to a trickle and put at risk the livelihoods of remote Indigenous and riverside communitiesUnder the scorching midday sun, Pedrina Brito de Mendonça picks her way through sandy terrain dotted with shrubs and driftwood. Sandbanks and cracked mudflats stretch into the distance, hemmed in by a line of trees on the horizon, while fresh grass grows around an almost stagnant water channel.This desolate landscape
  
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• Deforestation has big impact on regional temperatures, study of Brazilian Amazon shows

  30-10-2023 20:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Research highlights benefits forests bring surrounding regions in terms of cooler air and more rainfallDeforestation has a far greater impact on regional temperatures than previously believed, according to a new study of the Brazilian Amazon that shows agricultural businesses would be among the biggest beneficiaries of forest conservation.The paper has important political implications because farmers in Amazonian states have, until now, led the way in forest destruction on the assumption that th
  
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• Aurelius Group in talks to buy The Body Shop, says report

  29-10-2023 13:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Banking sources say a deal for the beauty products chain is expected to be signed next monthThe private equity investor Aurelius Group is in talks to buy the beauty products chain The Body Shop, which has been put up for sale by its Brazilian owner Natura & Co, a source familiar with the talks has told Reuters.If completed, the deal is expected to value The Body Shop at a lower price than the £400m-£500m suggested in some media reports, the source said. Continue reading...
  
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• Environmental crime money easy to stash in US due to loopholes, report finds

  26-10-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Secrecy and lax oversight mean illegal loggers and miners in Amazon can park billions in real estate and other assetsSecrecy and lax oversight have made the US a hiding place for dirty money accrued by environmental criminals in the Amazon rainforest, a report says.Illegal loggers and miners are parking sums ranging from millions to billions of dollars in US real estate and other assets, says the report, which calls on Congress and the White House to close loopholes in financial regulations that
  
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• Brazil slave trafficker’s links to top bank spark debate over reparations

  26-10-2023 12:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Researchers are at last revealing how slavery and the slave trade shaped the country’s institutionsOn 27 July 1825, a brig called Espadarte (Swordfish) docked in Rio de Janeiro and unloaded its expensive cargo: 422 Africans forcibly shipped across the Atlantic from Angola. It was the first slave shipment known to have been organised by José Bernardino de Sá, then a clerk at a Rio trading house.Over the following 25 years, undeterred by a law that theoretically made the slave
  
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• Ancient rock carvings revealed by receding Amazon waters amid drought

  24-10-2023 23:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Human faces and other figures believed to be up to 2,000 years old exposed as Brazil river level hits record lowHuman faces and other figures etched in stone up to 2,000 years ago have been revealed on Amazon riverbanks as a historic drought in the Brazilian region has brought water levels to unprecedented lows.The petroglyphs, which include animals and other natural forms, have been revealed on the shores of the Rio Negro, at an archeological site known as the Ponto das Lajes, or Place of Slabs
  
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• Paramilitary gangs in Brazil torch more than 35 buses in Rio de Janeiro attacks

  24-10-2023 03:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Criminals reportedly set fire to at least 36 buses, four lorries and a train, apparently in retaliation for the killing of a senior paramilitary leader by policeRio de Janeiro’s state governor, Cláudio Castro, has vowed to strike back against organised crime after paramilitary gangsters launched an unprecedented assault on Rio’s public transport system, torching dozens of vehicles in what the politician called “terrorist acts”.Criminals reportedly set fire to at le
  
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• Argentina: leftists celebrate after far-right Milei fails to win election victory

  23-10-2023 18:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Lula and others Latin American leftwingers hail Sergio Massa’s first-placed finish, with election now headed to November runoff Leading Latin American leftists have celebrated the thwarting of Javier Milei’s attempt to claim a first-round victory in Argentina’s presidential election after the far-right populist was beaten by his centrist rival Sergio Massa.Milei, an oddball economist who has called climate change a “socialist lie” and the pope “a lefty son of
  
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• ‘Bad and dangerous’: Argentina’s Trump on track to become president

  22-10-2023 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  With election Sunday, populist Javier Milei vows to abolish central bank, loosen gun laws, legalize sale of human organsWho is Javier Milei?A foul-mouthed, far-right populist who has been described as a cross between Boris Johnson and the killer doll Chucky is in pole position to become president of South America’s second-largest economy as Argentina chooses its next leader on Sunday against a backdrop of anti-establishment fury and economic disarray.Election-eve polls suggest Javier Milei
  
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• Bixiga 70: Vapor review – infectious exuberance from the Afro-Brazilian favourites

  21-10-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
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  Though the São Paulo ensemble’s fifth album never quite captures their live energy, their move to a more melodic sound works a treat
  “It’s like we can see the light again,” says baritone sax player Cuca Ferreira of São Paulo’s instrumental powerhouse Bixiga 70. He’s talking not only of the Covid pandemic, which hit his country especially hard, but the end of “four years of extreme rightwing government with a project to destroy
  
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• Drought turns Amazonian capital into climate dystopia

  18-10-2023 13:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Forest fires leave Manaus with second worst air quality in the world, while low river levels cut off communitiesA withering drought has turned the Amazonian capital of Manaus into a climate dystopia with the second worst air quality in the world and rivers at the lowest levels in 121 years.The city of 1 million people, which is surrounded by a forest of trees, normally basks under blue skies. Tourists take pleasure boats to the nearby meeting of the Negro and Amazon (known locally as the Solim&o
  
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• Bolsonaro was engineer of ‘wilful coup attempt’, Brazil congress inquiry alleges

  17-10-2023 17:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Congressional investigation into failed rightwing insurrection on 8 January calls for former president to be charged with four crimesBrazil’s former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro was the mentor of “a wilful and premeditated coup attempt” that sought to plunge Latin America’s largest democracy into political mayhem and perhaps even civil war, a congressional inquiry investigating the 8 January insurrection has alleged.The dramatic assertion was made on Tuesday as the
  
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• Water level at Amazon port in Brazil hits lowest point in 121 years amid drought

  16-10-2023 19:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Port in Manaus records lowest water level since 1902, leaving boats stranded and unable to deliver food and water to remote villagesThe water level at a major river port in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest has hit its lowest point in at least 121 years, as a historic drought upends the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and damages the jungle ecosystem.Rapidly drying tributaries to the mighty Amazon river have left boats stranded, cutting off food and water supplies to remote jungle villag
  
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• Lula urges end to ‘insanity of war’ as Latin Americans killed in Hamas attack

  11-10-2023 17:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Brazil president calls for humanitarian aid to protect Israeli and Palestinian citizens, while Latin Americans also taken hostageThe Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has called for an end to “the insanity of war” as it emerged that more than a dozen Latin Americans were killed during Hamas’s assault, with citizens of Brazil and Argentina taken captive in the Gaza Strip.By Wednesday morning, Latin American government and media reports had confirmed the deat
  
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• Indigenous Amazonians urge Brazil to declare emergency over severe drought

  10-10-2023 21:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Drought and heatwave has killed fish in rivers as Indigenous group Apiam says villagers have no water, food or medicineIndigenous people in the Amazon are calling on the Brazilian government to declare a climate emergency as their villages have no drinking water, food or medicine due to a severe drought that is drying up rivers vital for travel in the rainforest.The drought and heatwave has killed masses of fish in the rivers that Indigenous people live off and the water in the muddy streams and
  
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• Human emissions made deadly South American heat 100 times more likely

  10-10-2023 17:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Rapid research shows climate crisis by far main cause of unseasonable temperatures in southern winter and early springThe deadly heat in central South America over the past two months was made 100 times more likely by human emissions that disrupted the climate, scientists have shown.Temperatures have exceeded 40C in late winter and early spring in the southern hemisphere, affecting millions and leading to heat-related deaths. Continue reading...
  
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• Brazil is taking a new direction after Bolsonaro – but will Britain take note? | Richard Bourne

  10-10-2023 11:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Much has changed already under Lula da Silva’s presidency, but this vast country does not receive the attention it deservesBritish interest in Latin America, and its biggest country, Brazil, has been disgracefully fitful. It woke up when Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva narrowly beat Jair Bolsonaro, the disastrous tree-felling extreme rightist, last October. It even caused the BBC to lead its morning news bulletin in January, when a mob inspired by Bolsonaro and the example of the Capitol
  
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• The mass protest decade: why did the street movements of the 2010s fail?

  10-10-2023 06:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From Brazil to Egypt, Turkey to Hong Kong, the 2010s saw a series of huge public uprisings. Yet many of them led to the opposite of what they asked for. I spoke to more than 200 participants across 10 countries to find out whyIn the decade from 2010 to 2020, humanity witnessed an explosion of mass protests that seemed to herald profound changes. These protests started in Tunisia and erupted across the Arab world, before huge demonstrations also rocked countries like Turkey, Brazil, Ukraine and H
  
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• Lost ‘holy grail’ film of life in Brazil’s Amazon 100 years ago resurfaces

  07-10-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Documentary from 1918 that has been hailed as a classic emerges from depths of Czech archiveA long-lost Amazon documentary described as “the holy grail of Brazilian silent cinema” has been rediscovered nearly a century after it went missing.Amazonas, Maior Rio do Mundo (Amazon: Longest River in the World)was stolen from the original director, Silvino Santos, shortly after it was made in 1918. Just over a decade later, it had completely disappeared. The film resurfaced earlier this ye
  
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• Top grain traders ‘helped scupper’ ban on soya from deforested land

  06-10-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Cargill and ADM led push to weaken new protections for threatened ecosystems in South America, report saysCargill and ADM, two of the world’s leading livestock feed companies, helped to scupper an attempt to end the trade in soya beans grown on deforested and threatened ecosystem lands in South America, a new report alleges.Soya is one of the cheapest available types of edible protein, and is in huge demand for feed for animals around the world; as our consumption of meat and dairy has ris
  
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• Three doctors shot dead in Brazil in suspected politically motivated attack

  05-10-2023 18:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Among the dead is a brother of a lawmaker belonging to the same party as Marielle Franco, Rio politician shot dead in 2018Three doctors have been killed and another wounded in a beachside shooting in Rio de Janeiro, which Brazilian officials believe may have been a politically motivated attack.Security camera footage obtained by local newspaper O Globo showed a group of black-clad gunmen emerging from a car and running up to the victims’ table in the Barra da Tijuca neighborhood and openin
  
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