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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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“We, guardians of Nature, knew it would happen. Capitalists are destroying Nature”

Pablito Aguiar ,

Alvorada ,

Rio Grande do Sul ,

3 June 2024

Cacique Cláudio Acosta’s village in Charqueadas, Rio Grande do Sul, was surrounded by floodwaters for ten days. After five days without clean water to drink, they had to improvise a well

Reporting in comics: Pablito Aguiar
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Proofreader (Portuguese): Valquíria Della Pozza
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Editorial director: Eliane Brum

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