Brazil
For Afro-Brazilian ‘quilombolas,’ pandemic is synonymous with abandonment, racism, and ‘necropolitics’
March 9, 2021MOJU, PARÁ, Brazil— “We are not even getting access to the basic necessities,” says Raimundo Magno, the leader of the Africa quilombola community in Moju, Pará, his face grim with anguish. Magno’s complaint points to the...
Read moreWomen take the lead in fight to impeach Bolsonaro in Brazil
March 8, 2021SAO PAULO—Today in Brazil, women are facing the advancement of predatory neoliberalism, imperialism, an anti-democratic state, the politics of death, and the extermination of the people, which has been escalating with the coronavirus pandemic. In 2016,...
Read moreThe devastating, irreparable death of Aruká Juma
March 3, 2021The death of the last survivor of the Juma people, the warrior Amoim Aruká, from complications linked to COVID-19, is an incalculable tragedy. There were 15,000 of them at the turn of the 20th century and...
Read more‘Executive Order’: A futuristic ‘final solution’ to the Brazilian ‘race problem’ at PAFF
February 24, 2021This imaginative movie is a highly recommended film from Brazil that personifies PAFF’s motion picture panache and ethos.
Read moreLeading Brazilian Communist José Carlos Ruy has died
February 8, 2021Please understand, I have no title for this text. I’ll let André Cintra, the competent cultural editor of Vermelho, choose one.
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