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Brazilian state of Amazonas enters the most serious phase of COVID-19
January 14, 2021The coronavirus pandemic in Amazonas state has reached the highest level in Brazil's color-coded severity rankings system.
Read moreA new year poem for Latin America, ‘La Paciente’
January 04, 2021Latin America lies on a hospital gurney after yet another amputation...
Read moreNew Amazonian Atlas reveals that a third of the rainforest is threatened
December 23, 2020Julia Jacomini from the Amazonian Network of Socioenvironmental Information (RAISG) puts the latest data about the rainforest into perspective.
Read moreDavi Kopenawa, Yanomami leader and shaman, elected to Brazilian Academy of Sciences
December 21, 2020From December 2018 to April 2019, the Yanomami people were the subject of an extraordinary exhibition in São Paulo, The Yanomami Struggle, by photographer Claudia Andujar and the Moreira Sales Institute which presented the Yanomamis’ courageous and painful story. Claudia Andujar lived among these people in the 1970s when they were still isolated in Amazonia. The show moved to the IMS in Rio de Janeiro and earlier this year was...
Read moreBrazilian poet diplomat Vinícius de Moraes and ‘The Worker in Construction’
December 11, 2020The year 2020 marked 40 years of farewell to the poet Vinícius de Moraes.
Read moreIndigenous people block Trans-Amazon Highway protesting industrial drought
December 02, 2020In 2020, the Middle Xingu region suffered one of the most severe droughts of the past 50 years.
Read moreCoronavirus report from Brazil: Yanomami mothers beg for their babies’ bodies
November 24, 2020Three women are living a nightmare for which it will be necessary to invent a name.
Read moreBrazilian singer Vital Farias’ ‘An Amazon Tale’ in poetic new English translation
November 23, 2020English lyrics for Brazilian singer/songwriter Vital Farias’ “Saga da Amazônia,” a poetic translation.
Read moreThe shaman’s message: An urgent cry from the Amazon
November 20, 2020The entire world knows by now how urgently the Amazon rainforest needs protection from the ravages of destruction, deforestation, Western invasion and settlement.
Read moreOde to Flo (1929-2020)
October 05, 2020The poet uses the Yiddish word “chutzpadik,” which means “nervy.”
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