The city of Salvador in Brazil’s Bahia state was one of the first established by European colonizers 500 years ago, built where settlements of Indigenous people already existed.
Today, the predominantly Afro-Brazilian city is home to an Indigenous minority of around 7,500, many of whom are enrolled in the local university under the Indigenous quota system.
They say they continue to face prejudice from others, who question why they wear modern clothes and use smartphones and don’t look like the pictures in history books.
Over centuries of suffering from colonization and enslavement, Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian communities here have forged something of a cultural alliance in an effort to keep their respective traditions alive.
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“Consortia of deception” enable destruction in a conservation unit where deforestation is high
By Maurício Hashizume |
10/05/21
The Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protection Area (EPA) is a key territory in the Xingu Socio-Environmental Diversity Corridor located between São Félix do Xingu and Altamira. About 40% of its area has already been converted to other uses, mainly livestock. Actions by “consortia” formed to deceive governance drive devastation and worsen conflicts
The Triunfo
do Xingu Environmental Protection Area (EPA), in southern Pará state, appears
at the top of several lists of conservation units (CUs) with the highest rates
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China has “indefinitely” suspended key economic dialogue with Australia, the latest in a growing diplomatic rift between both countries. The relations between two countries have been on the decline since Australia called for a probe into the origins of the virus and banned Huawei from building its 5G network. In a statement on Thursday, a Chinese government commission accused Australia of having a “Cold War mindset”. Last year, China imposed sanctions on Australian goods like wine and beef.
Growth in India’s dominant services sector eased to a three-month low in April but remained unexpectedly resilient even as the COVID-19 crisis intensified and cost pressures rose at the fastest pace in over nine years, a private survey showed. The Nikkei/IHS Markit Services Purchasing Managers’ Index fell to 54.0 last month from 54.6 in March, its lowest since January but still well above the 50-mark separating growth from contraction. A Reuters poll expected t
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazilian industrial production registered a fall of 2.4% in March when compared to February, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) reported Wednesday, May 5.
In comparison with the same month a year ago, however, production rose 10.5%. The expectations in a Reuters poll of economists were for a 3.5% drop in the monthly variation and a high of 7.6% annually . . .
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A worker at the construction site of the Humaitá ring road, in Brazil s Amazonas State (image: Avener Prado)
A young employee sits alone on a construction site on the quiet dirt back roads of Humaitá, a municipality of 56,000 people in the south of Brazil’s Amazonas state. All is silent, except for the sounds of local wildlife.
But soon, when the red earth is paved with concrete, these roads will rumble with trucks carrying soybeans - the vast majority planted and grown in other states - to the city’s recently built, high-tech grain port.
“This will be our mark of progress,” said Luiz Schmidt, director of the local commerce association. “It will be a different region after.”