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Executive tells how he became an alternate member of the Senate after...
Of the 54 senators elected in 2018, 9 resorted to an old political habit: appointing wealthy businessmen as alternate members. One of them is Ogari de Castro Pacheco (DEM-TO), founding partner of the...
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3 children die in 11 days in the Xingu during indigenous healthcare void
There were no doctors on the morning of April 2 to see Milena Kaiabi, who was born in the Paranaíta village, in the Xingu Indigenous Park, north of Mato Grosso. The 4 days old newborn was crying,...
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Brazilian Government considers privatization of the agency that analyzes...
The Brazilian Institute of Industrial Property (Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industria – Inpi) may cease to be an autonomous federal agency and be transferred to the group of organizations known...
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Learn about the law that will cause billionaire loss to the Ministry of...
“Who owns the patent for this vaccine?”, asks the journalist on TV. “The people, I would say. There is no patent,” replies the American doctor and scientist Jonas Salk in the famous interview he gave...
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Why Brazil pays up to 1,400 BRL for a medicine that costs 34 BRL
“I would certainly pay for my cure, but I don’t have 364,000 BRL (US$ 87,500),” says biologist Fabiana Sobral, 41, who has been waiting at SUS (Public Health System) for medications against hepatitis...
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With donations of 13 million BRL, the pharmaceutical industry wins a seat and...
What makes a millionaire businessman from São Paulo from the pharmaceutical industry to spend 1.5 million BRL (US$ 404,000) in the last electoral campaign and guarantee an alternate seat in the Senate...
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Investigation of the pharmaceutical sector reveals a 170 million BRL...
Facing breast cancer for six years, retired nurse Joyce Guimarães is unmoved. When she started treatment with a drug that she could get for free at Brazil’s publicly funded healthcare system (SUS),...
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Amazon: How cattle ranchers circumvent agreement signed with prosecutors and...
Legal farms that receive cattle raised in banned areas and mask its illegal origin. Property titles that elude monitoring by meatpacking companies. Rural properties leased to third parties that elude...
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‘Pirate cattle’ from indigenous land and its links with meatpackers Marfrig,...
The town of São Félix do Xingu, in the state of Pará, which borders on the Apyterewa Indigenous Land, has 17 heads of cattle per resident (Photo: Daniel Beltra/Greenpeace) With 10% of its territory...
View ArticleDeforestation in the Cerrado: control by meatpackers is worse than in the Amazon
As the breadbasket of Brazilian agribusiness and the ‘water tank’ of river basins in biomes such as the Amazon, Caatinga and Pantanal, Cerrado has already lost half of its original vegetation cover to...
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The end of the beach: Giant port and thermal power plant with foreign partner...
While health agent Quitéria Ferreira dos Santos checks the size of freshly caught traíras (tiger fish), she explains how life works in the outskirts of Presidente Kennedy, a town in the south of...
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Concentration of power on the military undermines policies for the Amazon,...
Environmental inspection teams in the Amazon have decades of experience, which helped to reduce deforested and burned areas from 2005 to 2015. Now they are being supplanted, as technicians and public...
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One year after ‘Fire Day,’ no one has been arrested or charged; impunity...
No one has been arrested or even indicted a year after ‘Fire Day,’ an attack organized by ranchers and businessmen from Novo Progresso, which tripled fires in southwest Pará state on August 10-11,...
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Slave labour and inhuman wages: labour violations in Brazil’s cocoa industry
Two multinationals bought cocoa beans from a supplier employing slave-like labour in the state of Bahia. In investigations conducted by the Labour Prosecution Service (MPT), Repórter Brasil found a...
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Degradation advances in Mato Grosso and causes zero illegal deforestation...
The official crests of the towns of Marcelândia and Feliz Natal, in northern Mato Grosso, display three fallen logs and an ox, respectively. Deforestation, logging, and livestock are also ubiquitous...
View ArticleBB and BNDES face the highest exposure to deforestation, according to...
Banco do Brasil and BNDES are the Brazilian financial institutions with the highest investments in forest-risk companies, according to a study launched this Tuesday (Sept. 1st) by the international...
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How Morgan Stanley is linked to deforestation in the Amazon
Cattle ranching is the leading cause of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (Photo: Vinícius Mendonça/Ibama) Increasing deforestation in the Amazon in 2020 has prompted banks and funds to promise...
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BlackRock silent on livestock in latest global warming policy
Cattle ranching is the primary driver of deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon basin today (Photo: Bruno Kelly/Amazônia Real) In July, a major policy to combat global warming was announced by BlackRock,...
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Federal court grants renewal of plan minimizing impacts of federal road to...
In mid-August, Kayapó indigenous people took yellow posters not only to the middle of the federal road known as BR-163 but also to the world’s headlines. Taking extra risks because of Covid-19, they...
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Pantanal fires started on farms belonging to suppliers of agribusiness giants
Part of the fire devastating the Pantanal in Mato Grosso started in farms whose owners sell cattle to former minister and former senator Blairo Maggi’s Amaggi group and to the Bom Futuro group, which...
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