Category:Venezuela
Analysis of the U.S. intervention in Venezuela
What it means for Latin America
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
Christmas note from an Amazonian River slated for explosions
AUDIO: A quick note from a reporting trip to the Tocantins River, Brazilian Amazon. I visited Tauiry Village, where Brazil's govt. plans to install a construction site to blow up the rocky riverbed for 3 years. The traditional riverfolk who live there are fighting it.
Category:Brazil
Bolsonaro’s prison term to be reduced under new bill
In Belém, I talked with teacher Israel Esteban, 29, who was protesting a new bill that would reduce Bolsonaro’s prison term. We chatted about democracy, militarism, and the US military buildup near Venezuela.
Dateline:ALTAMIRA, Brazil
Indigenous Women Occupy Agency to Stop Canadian Belo Sun Mine in the Amazon
WATCH: Indigenous peoples say the mine, layered on top of the impacts of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, puts their territories and food security at risk.
Category:Politics
Trump’s "Climate Bullying" Undermined COP30
Trump's trade war and US “climate bullying” have frayed international cooperation and weakened the COP30 final accords, climate expert Claudio Angelo told me in this interview in Belém just after COP30 ended. We discuss the COP consensus rule, hopeful developments and his take on Prince William.
Dateline:BELÉM, Brazil
An Offense to Forest Spirits
Shaman Nato Tupinambá, of the of the Amazon's Indigenous Tupinambá people, evaluates COP30. For him, the real COP was in the Peoples' Summit, which among other things, called on leaders to implement zero deforestation strategies and end criminal rainforest fires.
Topic:Climate