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VIDEO | Militias now control 60% of Rio de Janeiro, overtaking drug traffickers

Also featured: Jair Bolsonaro’s war on vaccines, violence against natives and soaring food prices

Militia overtakes drug traffickers and controls more than half of Rio’s territory

Research shows that the armed group controls 58.6% of the city and need to be confronted by authorities

Bolsonaro gov’t to auction off mineral exploration of the Amazon yet this year

Government’s plan for the region conflicts with native populations’ culture and serves the interests of foreign capital

Check out Lula da Silva’s pronouncement about hunger in Brazil

In a speech on World Food Day, former president Lula da Silva criticized the resurgence of hunger in Brazil

VIDEO | As the pandemic persists, government pushes forth neo-liberal agenda

Also featured: Brazil’s iconic monument turns 89, left wing digital influencers and delicious local food

Will free and fair elections be held in Bolivia?

We talk to Zoe PC, who is part of an election observation team from CODEPINK in Bolivia

Hours before Bolivia goes the polls, early results system suspended

Bolivia hold the first elections since the coup d’état which forced Evo Morales out of office on November 10, 2019

Covid-19: seven of ten states with the most deaths resume in person classes in Oct'

On Teachers’ Day, educators criticize a return to classes in some regions of the country

The pandemic is worsening Zimbabwe’s economic and political crisis

Opposition claims the country is a dictatorship marred by sanctions, inflation, striking doctors and repression

Bolsonaro government takes another step towards privatizing the postal service

Measure would end the State’s monopoly over mail deliveries, opening the door to private courier services

“I ended Lava Jato”: a reminder of the Bolsonaro family’s corruption indictments

The president affirmed that he ended corruption within his government. Facts show the opposite

VIDEO | Brazil has over 5 million coronavirus cases and 150.000 deaths

Also featured: Indigenous firefighters help save Brazil’s ecosystems and black representation in politics

How does the economic crisis amid the pandemic affect impoverished youth?

Tricontinental Institute dossier analyses the direct impacts of the neo-liberal model upon the lives of Brazilian youth

“Our task is to take to the streets”, says worker as refineries allowed to go on sale

Supreme Court authorized the sale of refineries by Bolsonaro government without consent from Legislative

What is behind Military Police brutality?

BdF spoke to experts on the subject seeking answers and solutions to the growing lethality of the Brazilian police

VIDEO | Attacks on indigenous people increase 150% during Bolsonaro’s first year

Also featured: public schools return to classes prematurely as wildfires rage and the president redirects funds

Bolsonaro’s mining sector plan threatens the indigenous and weakens laws, say NGOs

Such is the analysis coming from social movements that work directly with those affected by the sector’s activities

Only one of every 15 mayoral candidates in Brazil’s capitals is a black woman

“It confirms the predestined path of the black woman within the white hetero patriarchy”, says writer Bianca Santana

During Bolsonaro’s 1st year in office, 113 indigenous people were murdered

Cases of violence against natives more than doubled in 2019, according to report

“Country has foresaken its dignity”, says Roberto Amaral about cuts to the sciences

Ex-minister analyses the role of research in combating covid and the “destruction” of national industries by Bolsonaro