Child abuse claims weaponised in Marajó election
One of the poorest and most remote regions of the Brazilian Amazon has become a laboratory for fake news as opposition groups peddle lies to win votes in the archipelago
Dyeing the streets red for 100 years
Revelers in Gurupá fight to keep faith and resistance alive during the festival of Saint Benedito in Quilombo communities in the Marajó Archipelago
Terra de pequenos agricultores, Bujaru quer resistir ao dendê e entrar no mapa da bioeconomia
Em Assembleia Cidadã, agricultores familiares, Ribeirinhos e Quilombolas da cidade à beira do Rio Guamá expressam desejo de conseguir mais renda e mais trabalho em atividades que mantêm a floresta em pé
The reinvented life of the man who confessed to killing Chico Mendes
In Medicilândia, Darci Alves Pereira adopted a new name, got rich, started an Evangelical church, and tried to enter politics through Jair Bolsonaro’s party
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A Beiradeira que venceu o grilador
A Seringueira entortada aos beijos de Lausminda de Jesus foi um dos marcos para que a comunidade Beiradeira de Montanha e Mangabal, no Tapajós, provasse sua existência no território
The seven-year-old girl who fears being burned alive by ‘bad men’
Violence persists at the Dorothy Stang Resettlement, in Anapu, in the Brazilian Amazon, 19 years after the missionary's murder. Landgrabbers are trying to drive residents away by attacking the school, which has been burned down twice
Vale usurps 24,000 hectares of public lands in the Amazon
With the agrarian reform agency’s failure to act, a Brazilian multinational, that irregularly bought federal lands a few years ago, is now pressuring landless rural workers and striving to demobilize social movements in southeast Pará. Reporting done in partnership between King’s College London and SUMAÚMA
Ferrogrão: Tribunal Popular condena a estrada de ferro que vai cortar a Amazônia
O julgamento, que colocou um saco de soja da Cargill no banco dos réus, mostrou que o megaprojeto do governo brasileiro só beneficia grandes corporações transnacionais e aproxima a maior floresta tropical do planeta do ponto de não retorno
Welcome to Itaituba, the gold laundering capital of Brazil
Amidst an explosion in illegal mining operations in the Amazon, a city on the banks of the Tapajós River has become a major beneficiary and facilitator
Where there are no votes, there are no schools
For more than 20 years, traditional forest communities and residents of extractive reserves in the Amazon have fought for the right to a decent education, but politicians and government agencies have paid little heed
