Brazil

(Photo: Bruno Kelly/Amazônia Real) By Maria Fernanda Ribeiro, from Amazônia Real The scene does not buzz with activity like the human ant-farms that were the hallmark of mining at Serra Pelada, in Pará. At the Yanomami Indigenous Land in Roraima, illegal mining destroys the Amazon forest in a more scattered, but no less vicious manner. […]

04/07/2021 12:59

Three in the afternoon of November 1st, under the rain, we met in the Dam Square in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to participate in the public act convened by leaders of the Brazil’s Indigenous People Articulation (APIB).  Dinaman Tuxá shouts: “Indigenous Blood”. We, as in a Greek tragedy, in front of the Palace of the King of Holland, […]

06/11/2019 15:22

With honorable inspiration from Saramago, and with poetic license, let’s (also) talk about the environment and indigenous peoples in Brazil’s elections. In the picture above, indigenous people protest at the Ministries Esplanade, in April of 2018 (Yanahin Matala Waurá /Amazônia Real)     By Andreia Fanzeres, special for Amazônia Real We all feel desolate. Suddenly […]

17/10/2018 20:11

On the picture, Tove (in a white shirt), Inayê and Ládio in the European Parliament wathc the trailer of the film Martirio (Photo: Barbara Arisi)   Brussels, June 2017 There are those who criticize the boycott as a weapon against apartheid and genocide. But, in various historical moments, the humanitarian barriers have demonstrated that they […]

06/06/2017 15:46