Police are looking for five more suspects in connection with the double homicide in the Amazon
Lusa - Portugal - 20/06/2022
Brazilian police have identified five more suspects in connection with the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian activist Bruno Araújo Pereira, whose bodies were found on Wednesday in a remote location in the Amazon.
The Federal Police, which…
Detainee confesses to burying bodies of two men missing in Amazon
AFP - Brazil - 16/06/2022
One of two men arrested over the disappearance of a British journalist and an Indigenous expert in the Brazilian Amazon confessed to having buried the pair in the jungle, federal police said Wednesday.
Suspect Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira “recounted in detail the…
Black Jesus born in burnt Amazon at Brazil church manger
AFP - Brazil - 13/12/2020
Instead of a manger in Bethlehem, Jesus will arrive this Christmas in a badly burned clearing in the Amazon rainforest, a black baby born to a black virgin with indigenous cherubs looking on.
The symbolically charged nativity scene is already turning heads in Rio de…
Bolsonaro asks countries to help fight illegal wood trade
Agency Brazil - 20/11/2020
In a live broadcast, the president said that the government will intensify inspection.
President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday (19) that the fight against illegal wood trade in Brazil depends on international collaboration involving other countries, especially…
Foreign diplomats guarantee that trip to the Amazon will start dialogue with Brazil
Lusa - Brasil - 06/11/2020
The South African ambassador to Brazil assured, on Thursday, on behalf of 12 foreign diplomats, that the trip organized by the Brazilian Government to the Amazon will be the beginning of a dialogue with the South American country.
“I am not giving this speech on behalf…
Brazil takes diplomats to fly over the Amazon, but avoids burnt areas
Lusa - Brazil - 05/11/2020
The Brazilian vice president told Lusa on Tuesday that he took foreign diplomats to fly over the Amazon to show that 84% of the forest is preserved, but the regions most affected by the fire were avoided.
On a three-day trip to the Brazilian Amazon, organized by the…
Portugal among countries invited by the Brazilian Government to travel to the Amazon
Lusa - Portugal - 30/10/2020
The Brazilian government has invited 10 heads of foreign diplomatic missions, including that of Portugal, to travel to the Amazon next week, to verify the “preservation of that forest”, the local press reported on Thursday.
According to the G1 news portal, South…
In 15 days, Amazon already has more fire than in all October 2019 and 2018
Folha de S.Paulo - Brazil - 17/10/2020
Fires are constantly growing compared to 2019; October last year, however, had the historic low for the month
October burnings in the Amazon already exceed the fire records of the same entire month in the last two years.
The Queimadas Program, by Inpe (National…
US lawmakers call for shake-up of Big Tech 'monopolies'
AFP - International - 07/10/2020
A House of Representatives panel in a report Tuesday accused four Big Tech firms of acting as “monopolies,” calling for sweeping changes to antitrust laws and enforcement that could potentially lead to breakups of the giant firms.
But the report by the House…
Xingu closes borders to prevent coronavirus arrival
Folha de S.Paulo - Brazil - 18/04/2020
Indigenous population in northern Mato Grosso has already been wiped out by epidemics, the first of them in the 16th century…
