Category: Bolivia
Protests and blockades choke Bolivia
Demands that began in the Amazon have spread
Tiffany Higgins
Journalist reporting from the Brazilian Amazon 🇧🇷 | Latin America. Stories from traditional communities, river journeys, and the rainforest. Follow for on-the-ground reporting and analysis.
Category:The Amazon
Criminal networks spread across the Amazon
U.S. military response may increase violence, experts say
Topic:Critical Minerals
Trump and Lula Discuss Trade, Critical Minerals
Transnational criminal networks also on agenda
Category:The Amazon
Pará police encircle 1,000 rural workers
Prosecutors warn of risk of violence and rights violations
Dateline:BELÉM, Brazil
Belo Sun mine: “A complete failure of responsibility”
License of Canadian gold mine by Pará's agency is blasted by Juruna leader
Dateline:BELÉM, Brazil
"Lives are worth more than gold"
Belém protest targets Canadian Belo Sun mining project on the Xingu River
Dateline:BELÉM, Brazil
The mind of water
Amazonian arts unmake the mind of winter
Dateline:BELÉM, Brazil
Hands Off Our Rivers
Riverfolk demand halt to Tocantins shipping channel
Category:Latin America
Lula slams U.S. war and mineral push in Latin America
Dateline:BELÉM, Brazil
"We are the owners of the Tocantins River"
Conceição fishes the Lourenção Rocks. Brazil says her community won't be impacted when they explode the fishery for a channel on the Tocantins River. She blocked the Transamazonian Highway in protest.
Category:Brazil
Trump envoy’s visa revoked by Brazil
Category:Brazil
“A target on Brazil’s back”
U.S. terror label on gangs sparks alarm
Category:Brazil
Brazilian gangs are "regional security threats," says U.S.
The U.S. is reportedly planning to designate Brazilian criminal organizations as terrorist organizations. The prospect has sparked alarm in Brazil this week, with fears of U.S. interference in the country’s politics ahead of the presidential election.
Category:The Amazon
Fishing season is about to open on the Tocantins River
Cametá is busy, in Pará state in the Brazilian Amazon, as everyone anticipates the opening of the fishing season
Category:The Amazon
Fishery explosion license stands, despite Indigenous victory
The explosion of a key Tocantins River fishery is planned for March, to begin a shipping channel, despite Lula’s river privatization decree being revoked on Feb. 24. In Cametá on Feb. 26, I interviewed geography professor Edir Dias, of the Federal University of Pará.
Category:The Amazon
Lula's river privatization decree was revoked
LISTEN: People react with joy as decree privatizing three Amazonian rives revoked