Brazil apologises for removal of Afro-Brazilian families to build spaceport
Brasilia, Brazil Reuters The Brazilian Government apologised on Thursday for mistreating Afro-Brazilian families that were forcible moved from their coastal home in northern Brazil four decades ago to make way for the construction of a spaceport. The Alcantara base run by the Brazilian Air Force is the rocket launching site of Brazil’s space program where […]
Slaves’ descendants in Brazil braced for land titles’ fight
Thomson Reuters Foundation As Brazil marks 130 years since the abolition of slavery this year, the descendants of runaway slaves have been celebrating two major victories in their long fight to get legal title to their land. In the northern state of Para, 500 of them in Quilombo Cachoeira Porteira took formal ownership of 220,000 […]