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Juarez Transamazônico, the ‘baby of the future,’ looks for his past

The first Brazilian to be born along the dictatorship’s symbolic highway through the Amazon has resurfaced to become the poster-child of an unsustainable Brazil

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Sacred medicines may help to heal the planet, but society’s woes run deeper

Science has proved that psychedelics, like ayahuasca, can increase the production of new neurons. But reducing the benefits of these ritual medicines to ‘cellular plasticity’ is a dangerous gateway to their appropriation by the market

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Woman raper, forest raper

There is no ‘morality agenda’ versus ‘economic agenda’; just one same policy meant to control and destroy rebellious bodies

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‘That night, everything I am was left behind’

Pablito Aguiar ,

Alvorada ,

Rio Grande do Sul ,

11 June 2024

Cartoonist Talita Grass’s home was subsumed by the flooding in Rio Grande do Sul and now she is trying to recover her things from the mud’s destruction

Reporting in comics: Pablito Aguiar
Fact-checker: Plínio Lopes
Proofreader (Portuguese): Valquíria Della Pozza
Spanish translation: Julieta Sueldo Boedo
English translation: Sarah J. Johnson
Copyediting and finishing: Natália Chagas
Editorial workflow coordination: Viviane Zandonadi
Editor-in-chief: Talita Bedinelli
Editorial director: Eliane Brum

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