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• Portuguese government rejects president’s suggestion of slavery reparations

  28-04-2024 12:42
  
  President advocated ‘paying the costs’ of colonial-era crimes but government said focus was deepening international cooperationThe Portuguese government has dismissed suggestions from the country’s president that it should “pay the costs” for slavery and other colonial-era crimes, saying it has no plans for reparations and will instead focus on deepening international cooperation “based on the reconciliation of brotherly peoples”.Campaigners have long ap
  
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• ‘My hands went cold’: Rio’s reporters risk death to reveal criminal ties between police, politicians and mafia

  28-04-2024 12:00
  
  The killing of councillor Marielle Franco has inspired a generation of journalists to probe the city’s dangerous underworldRafael Soares’s phone rang and his blood froze. “Ronnie Lessa Googled you,” a federal police contact on the other end of the line told the Brazilian reporter as he stood in his newsroom one morning in 2019.Any Rio crime journalist worth their salt knew that being investigated by such a man was extremely bad news. Lessa was reputedly one of the city&rs
  
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• Portugal rejects suggestion to pay reparations for slavery after comments from president

  28-04-2024 05:06
  
  Statement from government contradicts stance taken by Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who said Portugal should not put issue ‘in a drawer’Portugal’s government has said it refuses to initiate any process to pay reparations for atrocities committed during transatlantic slavery and the colonial era, contrary to earlier comments from President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.From the 15th to the 19th century, 6 million Africans were kidnapped and forcibly transported across the Atlantic by Portu
  
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• Portugal rejects proposal to pay reparations for slavery after comments from president

  28-04-2024 05:06
  
  Statement from government contradicts stance taken by Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who said Portugal should not put issue ‘in a drawer’Portugal’s government has said it refuses to initiate any process to pay reparations for atrocities committed during transatlantic slavery and the colonial era, contrary to earlier comments from President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.From the 15th to the 19th century, 6 million Africans were kidnapped and forcibly transported across the Atlantic by Portu
  
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