Brazil
Brazilian State of Maranhão obtains 4.5 million doses of Sputnik V vaccine
March 22, 2021“The Sputnik vaccine is being used in more than 40 countries. It is certified and authorized by several health agencies around the world.
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Abandoned by governments, Indigenous people create their own health post in Manaus
March 10, 2021Manaus, Brazil (Feb. 26, updated March 4) — With the public health system collapsing and the oxygen crisis, Amazonas has had more than 290,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the second and worst wave of the...
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Lula afirmó ser víctima de mayor mentira jurídica en Brasil
March 10, 2021El expresidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva afirmó hoy que resultó víctima de la mayor mentira jurídica en 500 años de historia de Brasil, en su primer pronunciamiento tras la anulación de sus condenas.
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For Afro-Brazilian ‘quilombolas,’ pandemic is synonymous with abandonment, racism, and ‘necropolitics’
March 9, 2021MOJU, PARÁ, Brazil— “We are not even getting access to the basic necessities,” says Raimundo Magno, the leader of the Africa quilombola community in Moju, Pará, his face grim with anguish. Magno’s complaint points to the...
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Women take the lead in fight to impeach Bolsonaro in Brazil
March 8, 2021SAO PAULO—Today in Brazil, women are facing the advancement of predatory neoliberalism, imperialism, an anti-democratic state, the politics of death, and the extermination of the people, which has been escalating with the coronavirus pandemic. In 2016,...
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