RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Producer Price Index (IPP) recorded a rise of 4.78% in March compared to the preceding month, the second-largest increase since official records began in 2014.
The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) also reported that February s record high was revised from 5.22% to 5.16%.
The IPP now accumulates a 33.52% rise in the past 12 months, also a record rate.
IBGE explained that the March result mainly reflects the increase in prices of oil refining and alcohol products (16.77%), other chemical products (8.79%), timber (7.73 . . .
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The census is necessary to “combat inequalities,” said Mello.
Brazil s Federal Supreme Court (STF) Justice Marco Aurélio Mello Wednesday acquiesced to an appeal from the northeastern State of Maranhão and order the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro to carry out a national census.
Citing lack of resources, the Bolsonaro administration had decided to cancel this year s survey but Mello found that should this idea be upheld the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) was not going to be fulfilling its duty to organize and maintain official statistical and geography services at the national level.
The magistrate also believed the Executive was violating both the Constitution as well as Law 8184/1991, which mandates that such a census be carried out every ten years.
Indigenous in São Paulo: Erased by a colonial education curriculum
In Brazil’s biggest city, descendants of the original inhabitants live in invisibility and struggle to keep their traditions despite São Paulo’s celebrated cultural diversity
by Jennifer Ann Thomas on 28 April 2021
São Paulo, the biggest city in the western hemisphere, is home to two Indigenous reserves with vastly differing fates.
The Jaraguá reserve is the smallest in Brazil, hemmed in by a controversial property development and highways that commemorate colonizers who enslaved and massacred the Indigenous population.
On the much larger Tenondé Porã reserve, residents grow their own food and speak their own language.
Despite recent intensification of control measures,
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During a presentation for Indigenous People’s Week, celebrated in April in Brazil, at his son’s elementary school in Rio de Janeiro, the first thing sociologist José Carlos Matos Pereira did was to show a photo of several individuals and ask the children, “What do you think, are they Indigenous?”
The children immediately answered in unison: “No.” He asked why, and they responded, “They are not naked; they do not have a bow and arrow and they are not in the forest; so, they are not Indigenous.”
The episode, centering on a picture of Indigenous people from the city of Altamira in the Amazonian state of Pará, is just a snapshot of the reality faced by Indigenous people living in urban areas throughout Brazil.