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Politics of Brazil

Health care workers of the public Mobile Emergency Service bring a patient suspected of suffering from COVID-19 to the Base Public Hospital in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, March 31, 2021. 

Health workers in Brazil fear COVID-19 cases may keep rising: ‘We cannot continue to trivialize these deaths’

COVID-19

As the rate of new infections is starting to slow down in Brazil, health officials brace for a new spike after Easter holiday gatherings over the weekend.

Demonstrators wearing masks with text written in Portuguese that read "Bolsonaro out," and a sign with the phrase "Oxygen, Breathe Brazil," protest against the government's response in combating COVID-19 and demanding the impeachment of Brazil's President

Calls for Bolsonaro’s impeachment intensify  

Brazil under Bolsonaro
Kayapó indigenous people block Brazil's BR-163 national highway, as they protest against the government measures in the Indigenous lands to avoid the spread of the coronavirus, in Novo Progresso, Pará state, Brazil, August 18, 2020.

Brazil’s Indigenous peoples fight COVID-19 in their territories amid government neglect

Human rights
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Brazil’s Environmental Policy Void

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Brazil Environment Minister Sacked

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New Amazon Reserves Anger Brazilians

NPR’s David Welna reports on Brazilian President Fernando Collor’s plan to set aside millions of acres of land as protected reserves for several of the country’s native tribes. Environmentalists and Native-rights advocates abroad are pleased, but many Brazilians are furious.

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