Brazil news

• Putin says Brics should become trading bloc representing ‘global majority’

  22-08-2023 20:41
  
  Russian president addresses group at South Africa summit, blaming western sanctions for causing volatility in global marketsVladimir Putin has told a summit of the Brics group of countries in South Africa, that it should become a trading bloc representing the “global majority”.However, differences among the group – comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – have become apparent at the summit over accepting new members, and whether to turn Brics into a geop
  
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• ‘A never-ending fight’: cancer and diabetes cases soar in wake of Mariana dam disaster

  22-08-2023 07:00
  
  The poisoning of the Doce River is affecting Indigenous communities who, while still waiting for justice, are seeing an increase in illnesses barely heard of before the disasterOn 5 November 2015, Rondon Felix Viana’s life changed for ever. On that day the Fundão tailings dam near the city of Mariana burst, unleashing 60m cubic metres of toxic waste that flowed more than 600km down the Doce River into the sea, obliterating everything in its path. It was Brazil’s worst environm
  
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• Cotton Capital: The Brazilian connection – episode 4 – podcast

  22-08-2023 04:00
  
  Revisited: The fourth episode in the Cotton Capital series explores how during the transatlantic slave trade, more enslaved African people were taken to Brazil than any other country. Today, more than half of Brazil’s population identify as Black and there are more Black people in Brazil than any other country except Nigeria. But the country is still grappling with deep structural racismThis week we are revisiting our Cotton Capital series that originally ran in April 2023. Today in Focus
  
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