The war on Indigenous rights in Brazil is intensifying
The Bolsonaro government is using legislation and the courts to try to deprive indigenous people of their rights
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: FeatureMisreported deaths, slow vaccination and presidential lies: Venezuela’s COVID crisisThe South American country’s fight against coronavirus has been limited by the missteps of an authoritarian regime
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: OpinionProtecting 30% of the Earth by 2030 would threaten Indigenous peoplesThough 30x30 conservation appears a way to mitigate the worst effects of climate change, it could dispossess many communities
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: AnalysisMexico’s recent election violence can’t be blamed on organized crime gangs aloneUp to 150 people were killed during the politically polarized campaign, with candidates, local officials,...
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: FeatureFive lessons from Argentina’s feminist movements’ fight for legal abortionsThe country’s ‘Green Tide’ of feminist activists succeeded despite all the challenges of COVID-19, thanks to their...
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: FeatureMemory and forgetting in Guatemala: Catholic Church sets the war record straightThe beatification of ten Catholics killed by the Guatemalan Army and local militias several decades ago is a...
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Published in:democraciaAbierta: OpinionWhy Colombia has erupted in protestThe economic impact of the pandemic has exacerbated conditions many already found intolerable. As state repression...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisWhy Cubans took to the streetsIt is no surprise that the young are confronting an old revolution that refuses to accept its failure in bringing...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionCuba protests: A guide to the island’s largest unrest in over 60 yearsIn unprecedented protests, Cubans demonstrated against their government and its mishandling of the pandemic, only to...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisWhat’s happening in Haiti?The 7 July assassination of the country’s president, Jovenel Moïse, has thrown the country into disarray. Here’s...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionThe assassination of Haiti’s president may worsen its response to COVID-19Haiti hasn’t vaccinated a single person yet. Poverty and vaccine hesitancy don’t help, but political instability...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: Opinion#BLM beyond the US: Anti-racist struggles in Latin AmericaOne year after the assassination of George Floyd, people are starting to acknowledge the systemic racism that runs...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisAttacks against women justice defenders threaten rule of law in GuatemalaWomen judges and prosecutors trying to combat political corruption and impunity face harassment and persecution from on high
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: FeatureThe women of the Amazon who dream the resistanceIn Ecuador, indigenous women lead a march to the capital, to demand an end to the pillaging of their land
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisJair Bolsonaro is betting on chaos in BrazilMore than 100 impeachment requests, a corrupt government, and a fatally mismanaged health crisis. Yet the president...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionIs AMLO undermining democracy in Mexico?Some say the president is breathing new life into the country’s ossified institutions, but there are good reasons to...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionColombia burns amid authorities’ bloody crackdown on tax protestorsInternational human rights organizations denounce violence yet President Duque fails to act as crisis escalates Español
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe rise of Brazil’s neo-Pentecostal narco-militiaIn Rio de Janeiro, drug trafficking factions, paramilitaries and evangelical churches have united to fight a ‘holy...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaMiners out, COVID out: Brazil’s Yanomami fight backThe Yanomami people in the Brazilian Amazon have been fighting the plague of extractivism for decades. Then the...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionCould a UN treaty force mining companies to behave responsibly?As business continues during a global pandemic, the need to protect the environment, health and human rights are...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionA triple pandemic strikes the Ecuadorian AmazonA year on from a devastating oil spill, many Indigenous communities are still without clean water, and contaminated...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionThe West must start treating vaccines as a global public good – before it’s too lateAs NGOs, UN agencies and the governments of less affluent states call for the suspension of patents, the stakes...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionHow I took the Munduruku fight to save the Amazon to the world stageThe Munduruku Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon faces many threats, but we know that we must unite to...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionOil exploitation is threatening the Ecuadorian rainforest – and the planet‘No to Block 28!’ Indigenous and peasant communities are fighting to protect nature and their way of life in a...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: FeatureEmbedded in the Amazon: new ways of narrating indigenous storiesThe Gabo Prize-winning series ‘Rainforest Defenders’ shows that deep empathy married with visual innovation can...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: Interview‘Bolsonaro’s politics of hate wants to destroy all that Marielle represents’Monica Benicio, the former partner of human rights activist Marielle Franco, murdered in 2018, explains how she is...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaFlares from the AmazonDocumentary series collects the voices of indigenous communities in the Colombian, Brazilian, and Ecuatorian Amazon,...
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