Brazil news

• ‘Children were dying. We didn’t even have aspirin’: the Indigenous Venezuelans forced far from home

  29-03-2024 13:00
  
  Economic crisis has driven Warao communities from their traditional life in lush forest to a Brazilian slumPhotographs by Nicola ZolinAt 4pm, the sound of sirens is fading. On the pavement, a teenage girl – her eyes darting back and forth to monitor police presence – starts smoking crack. She is across the street from “Hotel 583”, a makeshift shelter in a dangerous part of downtown Manaus, the capital of Amazonas in Brazil.On the second floor of the building, in the Cidad
  
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• Lula dismays relatives of dictatorship’s victims by ignoring coup anniversary

  29-03-2024 11:30
  
  Brazil’s president has nixed commemorations of the 1964 coup, possibly to avoid irking the military as senior officers facing jail for allegedly conspiring to stop Lula taking power after 2022 electionRelatives of the victims of Brazil’s brutal two-decade dictatorship have voiced anger and dismay over President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s reported decision to block official remembrance events marking the 60th anniversary of the 1964 military coup d’état.Acti
  
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