Tag: brasil
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Brazilian prosecutors have launched a civil investigation into one of the country’s largest banks’ historical links to slavery, in an unprecedented move to hold Brazilian institutions to account for their… more ›
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Desde que assistiu ao filme Orfeu Negro (1959), adaptado pelo cineasta francês Marcel Camus (1912-1982) a partir da peça Orfeu da Conceição, de Vinicius de Moraes (1913-1980), quando tinha 16… more ›
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Between 1946 and 1964, a group of amateur photographers changed the face of Brazilian photography – yet are almost forgotten outside their homeland https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2021/sep/15/join-our-clube-brazils-secret-photography-auteurs-in-pictures more ›
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Ms. Barbara is a contributing opinion writer who focuses on Brazilian politics, culture and everyday life. SÃO PAULO, Brazil — It’s not often that a congressional inquiry can lift your… more ›
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The Amazon is vital for the survival of the global biosphere. It produces oxygen and sequesters huge amounts of carbon (2.2 billion tons annually). Moreover, according to the “biotic pump“ theory,… more ›
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Jair Bolsonaro, President of Brazil, has been named the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project’s 2020 Person of the Year for his role in promoting organized crime and corruption. https://www.occrp.org/en/poy/2020/ more ›
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Most people are familiar with the concept of social and economic inequality, but although it affects a large part of the world’s population, it is still somewhat abstract for many… more ›