British reporter based in Brazil. Bylines in The Guardian, Financial Times, Washington Post, New York Times, Intercept and others. Tweets are not endorsements.
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The ‘real face of Russia’: the women taking a dangerous stand on St Petersburg's streets - video theguardian.com/world/video/…
Folha talked to 12 agribusiness leaders and found support for Bolsonaro still strong. Reasons include freeing up gun laws and support for exploiting protected Amazon areas including Indigenous reserves. Read destroying native forests for monoculture. www1.folha.uol.com.br/mercad…
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I can summarize the collective response to my story last week as "WTF?" Brazil's Bolsonaro bolstered the environmental fines system, a move that could help protect the Amazon. It can be hard to understand what the govt is doing. Here's a 🧵w/ some context reuters.com/business/healthc…
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Nobody *wants* their living room flooded, but it's def. consolation when it comes with a friendly river dolphin 🐬independent.co.uk/tv/climate…
Impressive that the G10 favelas group now has a 24-hour TV channel based in Paraisópolis.
espacodopovo.com.br/noticias…
Watch it here
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93 people have died in the floods in the NE state of Pernambuco. This is a devastating account of survivors in Jardim Monte Verde, on edge of Recife, from Folha.
www1.folha.uol.com.br/cotidi…
Johnson’s lurch to the right adds to momentum for leadership vote theguardian.com/politics/202…
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Murder, mercury poisoning and deforestation: the Yanomami people are bearing the brunt of illegal gold mining, which imperils the whole planet in order to enrich a tiny few
ft.com/content/49346cc2-7b22…
"These catastrophes happen in a continent-sized country," said Bolsonaro.
"Experts say climate change contributes to more intense rainfall, and the IPCC has classified Recife’s metropolitan region as one of the world’s most vulnerable cities." AP
Authorities in northeastern Brazil’s Pernambuco state said Monday that 91 deaths have been confirmed from flooding over the weekend, with more two dozen people still missing.
apnews.com/article/floods-ja…
44 people killed in floods in and around Recife in the NE, at least 30 on Saturday alone. G1
g1.globo.com/pe/pernambuco/n…
Brazil once wiped away preventable diseases. Why are they coming back?
"Between 2018 and 2021, vaccine coverage among the general population for tuberculosis, polio, measles, mumps and rubella dropped between 20 and 30 percent across Brazil."
Al Jazeera
aljazeera.com/news/longform/…
Around 36% of Brazilians don't have enough money to eat 3 meals a day. Just one of the many sobering revelations in this thorough @BrazilianReport piece on hunger, which has a real national spread.
Oh, and they lifted the paywall.
brazilian.report/society/202…
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War surges Norway's oil, gas profit. Now, it's urged to help (from @AP) apnews.com/article/f4de4a834…
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Lovely lil story here for your Sunday: A doll brings pride, identity for Brazil Indigenous woman
📝@dianejeantet apnews.com/article/latin-ame…
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Brazil has about 500,000 people whose main occupation is "social media influencer" per new Nielsen report. Via @folha
www1.folha.uol.com.br/mercad…
O Globo on how much money Bolsonarista militants make spreading fake news and conspiracy theories about the Brazilian election system. This is how it works.
blogs.oglobo.globo.com/sonar…
"There you have the ethos of Downing Street under the sordid stewardship of Mr Johnson. See what you can get away with. His life motto turned into the degenerate creed of Number 10."
Boris Johnson, the party animal, has vomited over standards in public life | Andrew Rawnsley theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Landslides and floods kill at least 30 in northeast Brazil
📝@Deboralvares apnews.com/article/7a9c2a725…
Brazilian Vinícius Jr., from São Gonçalo near Rio, wins European Championship for Real Madrid with goal against Liverpool.
theguardian.com/football/202…
‘Music is my journey’: Brazil’s Milton Nascimento bids farewell to the stage. His falsetto has been called ‘the voice of God’ and, now 79, Nascimento reflects on Bolsonaro, Ray Charles and an extraordinary life.
Lovely piece by @tomphillipsin & @caio_
theguardian.com/music/2022/m…
