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Published in: 50.50: FeatureHow Latin American women are winning the battle for abortion rights
Argentina, Colombia and Mexico have recently legalised or decriminalised abortion. Could Chile be next?
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisIs Latin America shifting to the Left again?
After the Left’s success in Chile, Honduras and Peru last year, will Brazil and Colombia follow suit in 2022?
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: FeatureBrazil’s policing is a war of men. Civilians are caught in the crossfire
Rio de Janeiro’s security policy, led by a masculine logic of war, subjects people to authoritarian actions with no...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionHow much has Bolsonaro changed Brazil’s role in the world?
The far-Right leader’s status as an international pariah masks some important points of continuity
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionIs there a ‘third way’ for Brazil?
As Bolsonaro and Lula square up for next year’s election, some Brazilians demand an alternative. But does it risk...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisAcross Latin America, the fight for defenders’ justice intensifies
If we are serious about human rights, we should not stop demanding justice for Berta Cáceres and Marielle Franco
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: OpinionJohnson’s UK, Bolsonaro’s Brazil and Orbán’s Hungary: peas in a state-captured pod
State capture happens when narrow interest groups take control of public policy, buying influence to rewrite the...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionBolsonaro’s empty climate promises for Brazil
As Bolsonaro claims to protect forests, his leadership has allowed devastation of the Amazonian jungle to reach epic heights
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionTo help Indigenous people in Brazil, let’s challenge our own violence
Rather than looking to ‘save’ others, we should aim to dismantle the hatred and exploitation of those who reject...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaFate of the Piripkura tribe in the hands of agency taken over by Bolsonaro
Last remaining family members rely on Brazil’s Indigenous land protection orders for survival. With the protections...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: Opinion#BLM beyond the US: Anti-racist struggles in Latin America
One year after the assassination of George Floyd, people are starting to acknowledge the systemic racism that runs...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: AnalysisJair Bolsonaro is betting on chaos in Brazil
More than 100 impeachment requests, a corrupt government, and a fatally mismanaged health crisis. Yet the president...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaThe rise of Brazil’s neo-Pentecostal narco-militia
In 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 back
The Yanomami people in the Brazilian Amazon have been fighting the plague of extractivism for decades. Then the...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionHow I took the Munduruku fight to save the Amazon to the world stage
The 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: FeatureEmbedded in the Amazon: new ways of narrating indigenous stories
The 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: democraciaAbierta: OpinionLegal flat-earthers and the rule of law in Brazil
Criticism of the Supreme Court’s decision to annul ex-president Lula’s corruption convictions reveals how polarised...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaIn the Menkragnoti Indigenous Land, we are resisting more than just COVID
We depend on the forest and the river to survive, and will protect it from exploitation, says Pho Yre, an inhabitant...
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Published in: democraciaAbiertaUnholy alliance: the global crusade against reproductive justice
As the far Right unites, it is time that we also stand together and strengthen our ties