Category:The Amazon

Pará police encircle 1,000 rural workers

Prosecutors warn of risk of violence and rights violations

Tiffany Higgins

May 7, 2026 — 9 min read

Since May 1, police have encircled 1,000 rural workers on lands designated for the Maria da Glória agrarian reform settlement project by Brazil’s federal land reform agency. The situation is tense, with a risk of violence and “serious human rights violations,” according to federal prosecutors.

Larry Sabato: “He has national potential”

Political analyst and University of Virginia Center for Politics director Larry Sabato discusses last night’s primary results and what they signal about shifts within the Democratic Party, including Zohran Mamdani’s rising influence.

"We have right now a real risk of a military invasion of Cuba"

Cuba's Ambassador to the United Nations Ernesto Soberón Guzmán on US/Cuba tensions

The Draft Crisis in Israel

Protests Erupt Over Who Should Serve in a Nation at War