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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Indigenous nurse Almeida Tananta battled heavy downpours of tropical rains as he rode his motorbike for hours across the red-soiled dirt tracks of Tabatinga, a municipality in Western Amazonas, which borders the Amazon rainforest and Colombia, and has the largest concentration of Indigenous Brazilians in the Amazon. Tananta was en route to apply the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to the remote Umariacu villagers, in Alto Rio Solimoes. But when he arrived at the village of wooden-thatched houses skirting the banks of the Amazon river, the nurse’s hopes of vacc...

3 Youth Climate Activists on How COVID-19 Has Shaped Their Work Perspectives from a young journalist, organizational head, and NGO worker. Earlier this year, on a Friday morning in Curitiba, Brazil, 28-year old journalist Rafael Forsetto sat in his office, mulling over his workplan. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, his next project was to document the work of the Indigenous communities of the Xingu River Basin, whose lands are under threat due to the deforestation, illegal logging and small-scale “garimpo” mining. But Brazilian Indigenous populations have been decimated by the virus, so Ra...

The beaches of Brazil must be counted as among the best in the world. Canada-based photographer Blake Smith strolled along Ipanema, Leblon, Copacabana and others in Rio with his trusty Nikon in hand photographing the beach scenes in 1978. Lots of interesting activity on Rio's superb beaches h/t:

SWING TRAGEDY Tragedy as little girl, 8, is strangled to death by her own swing rope while playing in gran’s back garden Updated: 17 Feb 2021, 17:27 AN EIGHT-year-old girl was horrifically strangled to death by her own swing rope while playing in her gran’s back garden. When Gabriele da Rosa Iankoski's grandma went to check on her, she found the youngster unconscious on the ground next to the swing in Brazil. 5 5 The girl's tragic death occurred in the Brazilian municipality of Cascavel on February 15. Her family told local media that Gabriele was playing by herself on the swing in her g...

Guy Brett mailing Signals Newsbulletin in London, 1964. Photo: © Clay Perry/England & Co. AT A 2008 TATE MUSEUM TALK on Chilean artist Eugenio Dittborn, Guy Brett recalled a studio visit during which Dittborn kept fussing with unwieldy canvases, growing frustrated. “Fucking rigidity,” Dittborn had exclaimed, bashing the canvases to the wall. This aversion to the static, a trait endemic to the artists he championed, is just as applicable to Brett himself. The critic and curator had an abhorrence for the rigid, contempt for anything that refused to bend to the shape of the world. He was...