Indigenous people protest Brazil not protecting ancestral lands
Brasilia, Brazil Reuters Several thousand Indigenous demonstrators marched chanting to drum beats on Thursday to the seat of power in Brazil’s capital to protest against the government’s failure to protect their ancestral lands. The annual event this year focused Indigenous anger over plans to build a railway to transport grain from farm states to Amazon […]
Brazil’s Lula recognises two more Indigenous lands, but postpones four others
Brasilia, Brazil Reuters Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva officially recognised two more Indigenous territories on Thursday, but said he decided not to sign off on four others because they still need to be cleared by people currently occupying them. The recognition grants the territories legal protection as reservations to be defended against invasions […]
Dengue spreads fast in Brazil prompting emergency health measures
Brasilia, Brazil Reuters Dengue fever has surged in Brazil’s hot rainy season, forcing health authorities to take emergency measures and start mass vaccination against the mosquito-borne illness. In the first five weeks of this year 364,855 cases of infection have been reported, the Health Ministry said, four times more than dengue cases in the same […]
Brazil riots: Christians represented a significant faction of those who took part
EDUARDO CAMPOS LIMA, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reports that at least four evangelical pastors were among those arrested in the aftermath of the attack…
Brazil’s prosecutors ask top court to investigate Bolsonaro role in Brasilia riots
Brasilia, BrazilReuters Brazilian federal prosecutors on Friday asked the Supreme Court to investigate former President Jair Bolsonaro for allegedly encouraging anti-democratic protests that ended in the storming of government buildings by his supporters in Brasilia. Bolsonaro will be investigated for possible “instigation and intellectual authorship of the anti-democratic acts that resulted in vandalism and violence […]
Essay: What now for Brazil? President Lula strengthened, but Bolsonaro supporters won’t go quietly
In an article first published on The Conversation, DEBORAH BARROS LEAL FARIAS, of UNSW Sydney, looks, in the wake of Sunday’s riots in Brasilia, at what next for the South American nation…
Updated: Bolsonaro in Florida hospital; over 1,500 supporters detained after Brasilia riots
Updated: 11:15am (AEST)Brasilia, Brazil Reuters Far-right former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was admitted to a hospital in Florida on Monday as more than 1,500 of his supporters were rounded up in Brasilia after storming the capital over the weekend. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a leftist who took office on Jan. 1 after defeating […]
Brazil investigates who led anti-democratic riots in capital
Brasilia, BrazilReuters Brazil’s Supreme Court late on Sunday removed the Governor of Brasilia from office for 90 days due to flaws in security in the capital, after thousands of backers of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro ransacked government buildings. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes also ordered social media platforms Facebook, Twitter and TikTok to […]
Updated: Bolsonaro backers ransack Brazil presidential palace, Congress, Supreme Court
Last updated: 4pm (AEST)Brasilia, BrazilReuters Supporters of Brazil’s far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday invaded the country’s Congress, presidential palace and Supreme Court in Brasilia, in a grim echo of the US Capitol invasion almost exactly two years ago by fans of former President Donald Trump. There were no immediate reports of deaths or […]
Lula takes reins of Brazil, slams Bolsonaro’s anti-democratic threats
Brasilia, Brazil Reuters Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was sworn in as Brazil’s President on Sunday, delivering a searing indictment of far-right former leader Jair Bolsonaro and vowing a drastic change of course to rescue a nation plagued with hunger, poverty and racism. In a speech to Congress after officially taking the reins of Latin […]