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Multiple Authors Article The igarapé, a large stream, serves as the lifeblood for so many quilombola communities in the Amazon region as a source for food and water and medium of transport. Image by Cícero Pedrosa Neto. The absence of data worsens the damage caused by the novel coronavirus in quilombola communities–descendants of escaped African and Afro-Brazilian slaves–located throughout the Amazon. According to a COVID-19 observatory Quilombola communities in the Brazilian Amazon have already been devastated by the advance of commercial and state interests on ...

By Lisa Zengarini The Brazilian Catholic Bishops’ Conference (CNBB) has invited the faithful to join a National Day of Prayer on February 2, Feast of the Presentation of the Lord (Candlemas Day), asking the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Joseph to intercede in the ongoing fight against Covid-19. “The aim is to ask God to nurture our hope and give us courage in facing the pandemic,” said the Secretary General of the CNBB, Bishop Portella Amado. Light of hope "Keep alight the light of hope” is the motto chosen for the Day of Prayer. Catholics are invited to light a candle and to place it ou...

Most emerging market (EM) countries have to some degree followed the IMF’s chief Kristalina Georgieva’s advice regarding their rapid response to the coronavirus-induced crisis, but few have with Brazil’s alacrity.  Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro, albeit playing down the threat the coronavirus pandemic posed, arguing that the economy, jobs and activity, were the priority above sanitary recommendations, outspent every other major emerging market economy.  Although strained from a fiscal perspective, Bolsonaro’s pro-business approach to the pandemic led to a significant boost in pub...

Brazilian Catholics pray for 'light of hope' amidst pandemic Catholics in Brazil hold a day of prayer on Tuesday to implore "a light of hope", as a new variant of the coronavirus drives a surge in infections in the northern city of Manaus. By Lisa Zengarini The Brazilian Catholic Bishops’ Conference (CNBB) has invited the faithful to join a National Day of Prayer on February 2, Feast of the Presentation of the Lord (Candlemas Day), asking the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Joseph to intercede in the ongoing fight against Covid-19. “The aim is to ask God to nurture our hope and give us courage...

US, EU importing potentially illegal wood from Brazil: report AFP 2/2/2021 AFP © Ricardo Oliveira Aerial view of logs of wood seized by the Amazon Military Police at the Manacapuru River in Manacupuru, Amazonas State, Brazil on July 16, 2020 US and EU firms are importing large amounts of wood potentially linked to illegal deforestation after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's administration controversially lifted sanctions against the country's biggest flooring exporter, a report said Tuesday. The report, published by London-based environmental group Earthsight, said th...