Reactions to the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic have highlighted different aspects of Brazilian society. On April 1, in São Paulo (SP), the Madero restaurant chain announced the layoff of 600 workers. On the same day, in Rio Grande do Sul, the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) announced that it will donate 12 tons of organic rice to help compose the basic food basket for vulnerable people.
State-run company is selling 8 refineries, thousands of miles of pipelines, and fuel distributors
Workers at the Brazilian oil company Petrobras will go on an indefinite nationwide strike starting Saturday (February 1) at midnight, the Unified Federation of Oil Workers (FUP) and its 13 unions informed the state-run oil giant’s management.
Provisional decree could lead to escalation of land conflicts in the world’s biggest rain forest
The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, signed on Tuesday, December 10 a provisional decree (MP) that aims to formalize the land titles of around 600,000 rural estates by 2022.
Our weekly show also reports on a cultural complex that was listed as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity
FIAN Brazil launches report exposing how authoritarianism has drastically eroded the right to food in the country.
In 2014 Brazil was officially removed from the FAO/UN Hunger Map, a significant achievement for a country still considered a “developing nation.” Nonetheless, authoritarianism’s hold on power further aggravated the setbacks put in place after the coup in 2016.
Scoops, controversies, and threats of authoritarianism marked last week in one of Brazil’s most notorious cases
The bill was voted and approved by the São Paulo City Council and was officially published by the Parliamentary Secretary Genera on September 4, 2019
“The Amazon is a territory of life, food, water, and cultures, not destruction, death, and exploitation”
Latin America’s largest demonstration organized by female rural workers, Daisies’ March energizes people’s struggle
Maria Anecy Martins arrived in Brasília this week with glowing eyes to join the 2019 Daisies’ March. The 45-year-old small farmer is one of the 100,000 peasant women who joined the 2-day event that ended with a massive rally that took over the streets of Brazil’s capital.
Plea-bargaining executive told court that Car Wash prosecutors wanted him to “produce an account” about Atibaia case
A plea-bargaining executive who testified against former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2018 told a São Paulo court earlier this month that he was “virtually coerced” by Car Wash prosecutors to “produce an account” to incriminate the Workers’ Party leader.
