By Naira Hofmeister, Fernanda Wenzel and Pedro Papini |
04/11/21
Brazil’s National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) is financing meatpacking companies that slaughter animals raised on farms that have been illegally deforested, interdicted by Ibama, overlapping conservation units or indigenous lands, and that use...
By Naira Hofmeister |
28/10/21
A raft slides on the waters of a river in a remote area of the Amazon, carrying a Hyundai hydraulic excavator that weighs at least 15 tons into the forest. The scene was recorded by indigenous people and sent to authorities by WhatsApp, along with a request for help....
Daniel Camargos |
09/09/21
Nineteen coffee harvest workers – who had migrated from Vale do Jequitinhonha, one of the poorest areas in the state of Minas Gerais – had almost one third of their wages illegally deducted by the family of the president of the world’s largest coffee cooperative,...
By Kátia Brasil, from Amazônia Real |
07/07/21
Aviator and miner José Altino Machado, now 79 years old, was known in the country as the person responsible for the three largest invasions by miners in the regions of Xitei and Surucucu at the Yanomami Indigenous Land in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, in Roraima. With...
By Eduardo Nunomura*, from Amazônia Real |
07/07/21
Romero Jucá (MDB) has been keeping a low profile. He still lives in Brasilia but has been leading a discreet life since he was not re-elected to the Senate in 2018. Since then, he has rarely responded to the press. Staying out of the spotlight is understandable. In...
