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6 Apr 2021 3 minute read

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Racism’s deadly cycle

Leonardo Sakamoto on his country's lethal pattern of racism.

29 Mar 2022 1 minute read

‘Our culture is vanishing’

In the Amazon rainforest, remote communities descended from enslaved African people, are taking on the palm oil production...

17 Mar 2022 3 minute read

Hall of infamy

Jair Bolsonaro: viciousness and vulgarity in Brazil.

16 Feb 2022 3 minute read

The gathering storm

Leo Sakamoto laments the dawn of the climate era – and worries for the fate of the most vulnerable.

The Brazilian president's pandemic policies ranged from discouraging social distancing to opposing the use of masks and promoting drugs like chloroquine which are useless in treating the disease. Palácio do Planalto/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

7 Dec 2021 3 minute read

Hunger in the world’s breadbasket

Leonardo Sakamoto tracks the scandalous rise of hunger in Brazil.

10 Nov 2021 5 minute read

The interview: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Leo Sakamoto speaks to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the former president and favourite to...

11 Oct 2021 3 minute read

Dry taps and blackouts

Leo Sakamoto fears a drought as Brazil’s long-brewing water crisis hits home.

24 Aug 2021 3 minute read

Slavery beef, anyone?

From slavery to mass deforestation, Leonardo Sakamoto highlights the devastating impact of cattle ranching...

Playground for the rich: Brazil now has 20 more billionaires than last year, up from 45 to 65. Credit: Alobos Life/Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

29 Jun 2021 3 minute read

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Breaking records – for the rich and the hungry

Leonardo Sakamoto on hideous wealth and – and poverty.

Searching for sustenance: In Para State, a man moves his furniture in a cart after struggling to make rent following food price inflation beginning in 2013. Credit Lalo de Almeida/Folhapress/Panos

16 Jun 2021 3 minute read

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The pandemic has worsened Brazil’s hunger crisis

A recent study suggests that as many as six in ten Brazilians are struggling to put food on the table, reports ...

Credit: Lula Marques/Agência PT/Partido dos Trabalhadores/Flickr

13 Apr 2021 3 minute read

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Lula is back in the game

After a court annulled all the sentences against him, Brazil’s ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is back in the running...

A 'Women United Against Bolsonaro' solidarity demonstration in London, 2018. Credit: Esdras Beleza/Flickr

11 Feb 2021 3 minute read

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View from Brazil

While Argentina wins abortion rights, in Brazil even a pregnant 10-year-old is threatened and coerced to give birth, writes...

17 Nov 2020 3 minute read

This article is almost two years old.

With Trump’s defeat, Bolsonaro loses his imaginary friend

Bolsonaro’s desperate pledges to Trumpism have not paid off, argues Leonardo Sakamoto.

QAnon has a lot to learn from Brazil, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

8 Oct 2020 3 minute read

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In Brazil, conspiracies are for professionals

QAnon has a lot to learn from Brazil, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

A man takes rest on the roadside in a Carapicuiba City favela. Image by Luiz Gonzaga De Souza/Pixabay

19 Aug 2020 3 minute read

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In times of Covid-19, black people die twice in Brazil

Leonardo Sakamoto reflects on the police killing of João Pedro Matos Pinto, a 14-year-old black boy, and...

Leasing a flying ICU to go between Belém and Brasília costs over $6,794 – or 63 months’ wages of a person within the poor 50 per cent.

25 Jun 2020 2 minute read

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First class patients

In Brazil, the rich, who infected the poor, are now buying ICU flights for themselves.

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