Brazil news

• Trial of Brazil’s alleged 8 January insurrectionists opens in supreme court

  13-09-2023 19:23
  
  Judge condemns ‘dastardly putschist attack’ on Latin America’s largest democracy as first four Bolsonaro supporters go on trialThe hate-filled vandals behind the “dastardly putschist attack” on Latin America’s largest democracy must be brought to justice, a supreme court judge has declared as Brazil held the first trial connected to Brasília’s 8 January insurrection.Thousands of followers of the ex-president Jair Bolsonaro marauded through Brazil&
  
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• A Symphony for a Common Man review – the diplomat who could have stopped the Iraq war

  13-09-2023 10:56
  
  Story of expert who knew Saddam Hussein had no chemical weapons, but was ousted to give Bush and Blair a pretext for invading Iraq, plays out like a real-life version of George Clooney’s Syriana‘Power is power” is the send-off lament of this Brazilian documentary, which looks back at a nearly forgotten episode in the long preamble to the second Iraq war, of 2003-11, one of breathtaking cynicism. The film centres on Brazilian diplomat José Bustani, who in 1997 was made di
  
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• Environmental activists killed at a rate of one every other day in 2022 – report

  13-09-2023 01:01
  
  Colombia was the deadliest country and a fifth of the 177 recorded killings took place in the Amazon rainforest, says Global WitnessAt least 177 people were killed last year for defending the environment, according to new figures, with a fifth of killings taking place in the Amazon rainforest.Murdered by organised crime groups and land invaders, environmental defenders were killed at a rate of one every other day in 2022, figures from the NGO Global Witness show. Colombia was the most deadly cou
  
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