Brazils

What happens when land becomes a financial asset? 

How corporations, pension funds, and other financial actors are driving land dispossession in Brazil

A new era of espionage dawns in Brazil

A massive data leak has revealed the widespread use of spyware app originally marketed as a parental control tool

Is another kind of livestock farming possible?

How a Brazilian farm operating on land seized by the Movement of Landless Workers in the 1990s is pointing the way to an alternative to modern industrial-scale livestock farming. When

Autocrats against the academy

How Brazil’s last military junta set scientific progress back by targeting top scientists and systematically destroying the country’s research ecosystem The last few weeks have seen Donald Trump lambast and

The Trump tariffs are also a matter of gender

Why tariffs disproportionately affect women. In Brazil’s Folha de S. Paulo, journalist Bianca Santana notes the way in which the tariff wars accentuate an existing gender inequality in the global trade system,

Epistolary exiles

Uncovering long lost letters written during Brazil’s military dictatorship Journalism’s dirty secret isn’t always nepotism. Sometimes, it’s luck! This couldn’t hold any more true for the Lisbon-based journalist, researcher and

Lou Reed in Brazil

Black and white photographs in a Brazilian market send a writer down a rabbit hole into music legend The Brazilian city of Juiz de Fora, in the state of Minas

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