The Brazilian government suspended on Monday the seven authorizations it had granted for mining companies to explore possible mines or gold veins in a highly preserved region of the Amazon rainforest, close to the border with Colombia and Venezuela. The government of the president Jair Bolsonaro, which defends mining exploitation even in indigenous reserves in […]
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Deforestation in protected areas of the Brazilian Amazon rises 79% under Bolsonaro government
The deforestation in the protected areas of the Brazilian amazon during the three years of government of Jair Bolsonaro It grew by 79%, compared to the devastation suffered by the reserves of this biome between 2016 and 2018, according to a study released by the Socio-Environmental Institute (ISA). Among all protected areas, indigenous reserves were […]
In Brazil, fish heads replace meat by stagflation
Signs of the pain caused by inflation are everywhere in the favelas surrounding the metropolises of Brazil. There is the collected firewood that replaces the gas for cooking; and fish heads and spines are poured into stews instead of beef and chicken; and the intricate alarm tags that grocers wrap around cuts of meat to […]
Petrobras will lower fuel prices in Brazil, says Bolsonaro
The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, anticipated this Sunday that the state oil company Petrobras will begin to reduce, starting this week, the price of fuels, which this year have soared between 65% and 73%. “Petrobras begins this week to announce a reduction in the price of fuel”, advanced the far-right president in statements to […]
Gold Rush Draws Hundreds of Dredge Rafts to Amazon Tributary
A fever of oro has collected hundreds of dredging ponds from illegal miners on the Madeira River, a major tributary of the Amazon, as state and federal authorities debate who is responsible for stopping them. The pump-equipped rafts are moored together in lines that stretch across the vast Madeira, and a Reuters witness saw slag-dropping […]
Sergio Moro, the former Lava Jato judge who grows up as an alternative to Lula and Bolsonaro
Updated on 11/26/2021 03:41 am Former judge Sergio Moro is consolidating his position as an alternative to the right-left polarization that so far is expected to control Brazil’s presidential elections next year, should he make it to the second round. The man who became famous for imprisoning Brazil’s political and business elite during the so-called […]
If Brazilian democracy falters, all of Latin America is in danger
by Hal Brands The farce of Sunday’s elections in Nicaragua, in which President Daniel Ortega ran with almost no opponents after vetoing or jailing most of them, may serve as the most egregious example of progressive authoritarianism in Latin America. However, Brazil, a much larger and more important country, is also heading for a political […]
Bolsonaro’s fiscal rule plan raises cost of Brazilian bonds
The President’s Efforts Jair Bolsonaro to break the spending limit of Brazil The government’s borrowing costs are already increasing and next year could end up costing up to US $ 74.00 million reais (US $ 13.3 billion) in additional payments on local bonds. Higher benchmark rates, as the central bank raises the Selic in a […]
The Amazon, an almost lost paradise
From the air, the Amazon it appears as a boundless dark green expanse, a place teeming with wildlife crossed by blue rivers. Unlimited until it stops. On the fringes of the largest rainforest in the world, vast brown patches emerge like scars, the result of deforestation and fires set to make way for roads, gold […]
These are the nine crimes for which Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is accused
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The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, is going through a difficult week after the Senate investigative commission asked that he be charged with an alleged “mismanagement” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, in the final report they presented, the controversial Bolsonaro was questioned with nine crimes that he would have committed. This was approved last Tuesday, […]