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The Guardian • 5th June 2023

Jump in child deaths reveals impact of industrialisation on Amazon’s Indigenous peoples

The infant mortality rate among the Indigenous peoples of Brazil jumped by 16% last year, according to new data, as experts warn that the expansion of legal and illegal extractive industries in the Amazon rainforest has had profound effects on the health and quality of life of Indigenous people living in unprotected areas.

An Amazon indigenous village’s flight from sprawling soy

Photography and reporting for National Geographic Brazil and Diálogo Chino - Mato Grosso state, 2021

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The New York Times • 27th August 2023

A fourth-grader in Brazil

What does an average day look like for Elloá de Oliveira Ramos?

The New York Times • 22nd August 2023

A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul

The Times unraveled a financial network that stretches from Chicago to Shanghai and uses American nonprofits to push Chinese talking points worldwide.

Dialogo Chino • 24th February 2023

How soy took over family settlements in the Amazon

Small farmers in Brazil are giving up on food crops and risking debt, lured by the big business of soy export

The New York Times • 27th April 2021

Ravaged by Covid, Brazil Faces a Hunger Epidemic

Tens of millions of Brazilians are facing hunger or food insecurity as the country’s Covid-19 crisis drags on, killing thousands of people every day.

Diálogo Chino • 9th February 2023

Struggle of Brazilian Amazon’s Yanomami brought to life through art

Activists tour New York calling for support against the invasion of illegal mining into their territory

The New York Times • 17th May 2022

Poor Countries Face a Mounting Catastrophe Fueled by Inflation and Debt

Before war ravaged Yemen, Walid Al-Ahdal did not worry about feeding his children. At his hometown near the Red Sea, his family grew corn, raised goats and relied on their own cow for milk.

Podcast: Amazônia Ocupada

Esta série de áudio em cinco episódios viaja pela rodovia BR-163 para explicar o que faz da maior floresta do planeta um atacadão global de madeira, ouro, carne e soja.
Uma produção do Diálogo Chino, com minha coordenação. Links para o Spotify - Setembro, 2022.

This is a five-episode audio series that travels through an Amazonian highway to explain how the region became a large commodities producer and exporter, who are its settlers and why this is driving deforestation of the rainforest . A Diálogo Chino production, under my supervision. Links to Spotify, in Portuguese - September, 2022.

Brazilian elections and Jan. 8, New York Times

The New York Times • 11th January 2023

The Moment the Brazil Rioters Broke Through

The invasion of Brazil’s halls of power began with a severe shortfall of security forces.

The New York Times • 13th January 2023

‘We Will Die for Brazil’: How a Far-Right Mob Tried to Oust Lula

The storming of Brazil’s capital failed to overthrow the elected government. But an examination of the attack reveals how extremism is threatening Latin America’s largest democracy.

25th October 2022

How Bolsonaro Built the Myth of Stolen Elections in Brazil

For years, President Jair Bolsonaro has attacked Brazil’s election systems. One of his claims has been that apparent patterns in vote results show proof of fraud.

The New York Times • 31st October 2022

Bolsonaro lost. Will he accept the results?

While the election is over, there remains the concern for the health of one of the world’s biggest democracies.

The New York Times • 30th October 2022

Brazil’s disputed runoff faces ‘spiritual warfare’ for evangelical voters.

As the race between Brazil’s right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro, and his leftist challenger, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, tightened, Mr. Bolsonaro and his allies intensified their courting of a voting bloc key to his campaign: evangelical Christians.

3rd October 2022

Brazil Braces for ‘White-Knuckle Race’ Between Bolsonaro and Lula

Supporters gathering in front of President Jair Bolsonaro’s residence in Rio de Janeiro as votes were counted on Sunday.

2nd October 2022

The deforestation of the Amazon is in the electoral spotlight.

The Amazon rainforest in Brazil has experienced sharply increasing levels of illegal deforestation and mining, violence against environmental activists and Indigenous people and a loosening of environmental enforcement under the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro.

2nd October 2022

At the polls, Brazilians show their colors — and help test the voting machines.

At the polls on Sunday in Brazil, picking out whom someone voted for was often as easy as looking at the color of their shirt.

2nd October 2022

Third-party candidates could have a big effect on Sunday’s election outcome.

President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are not the only candidates in Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday.

29th September 2022

Brazil’s Favorite Leftist Is Back From Prison and Trying to Defeat Bolsonaro

Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is trying to cap a stunning political comeback by defeating the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s elections on Sunday.

Can green rubber help protect the Amazon?

The New Republic and Food & Environment Reporting Network - Acre state, 2021

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Dialogo Chino • 24th May 2023

EU-Mercosur trade deal hits new snag over environmental demands

After more than two decades on the negotiating table, the trade deal between the European Union and South America’s Mercosur bloc now faces another obstacle: new environmental demands from the EU, with which the Brazilian government appears unwilling to abide, and which even environmentalists have denounced as “greenwash”.

The New York Times • 10th May 2023

David Miranda, Gay Rights Activist and Snowden Ally in Brazil, Dies at 37

Emerging from Rio’s slums, he helped Edward Snowden reveal classified documents and lobbied for his asylum before rising to his country’s Congress.

Dialogo Chino • 11th May 2022

An Amazon indigenous village’s flight from sprawling soy

Every night, Kisêdjê men carry plastic chairs to the centre of a huge yard surrounded by the dozens of huts that make up the village of Khikatxi. The dry season and the low light combine to create a deep, starry black sky over the Wawi indigenous territory in which it is located, in the northeast of Brazil’s Mato Grosso state.

In Brazil, Firms Sought Black Workers. Then LinkedIn Got Involved.

After Brazilian activists fought LinkedIn for removing job ads that sought Black and Indigenous candidates, the company changed its global policy.

The New York Times • 13th December 2021

Inflationary Wave Changes Political Terrain for Right-Wing Populists

President Jair Bolsonaro on Brazil’s Independence Day in September. The country’s currency has steadily declined in value, and its economy slipped back into recession in the third quarter.

The New York Times • 12th October 2021

A Martial Arts Star Is Criticized for His Handling of Abuse Cases

Roberto Abreu, known as Cyborg, has acknowledged missteps in the way he responded to sexual abuse allegations in his Brazilian jiu-jitsu organization.

The New York Times • 7th September 2021

Pro-Bolsonaro Rallies May Be Prelude to Power Grab, Critics Say

President Jair Bolsonaro rallied a crowd of supporters in Brasília, the capital, on Brazil’s Independence day.

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Critics see in the rhetoric of the leader, who is seeing declining poll numbers and mounting legal challenges, a parallel to former President Donald J. Trump’s.

Pro-Bolsonaro Rallies May Be Prelude to Power Grab, Critics Say

RIO DE JANEIRO — Beleaguered by declining poll numbers, a sputter

The New Republic • 7th September 2021

Can Fashion Help Small Farmers Preserve the Amazon?

On a rainy March afternoon, Rogério Mendes strides through the dripping vegetation of a tract of virgin Amazonian forest and stops at a tree with scars arranged in neat diagonal rows across its trunk. From his back pocket he produces a wood-handled tool with a blade on one end, called a cabrita, and cuts another diagonal line though the bark, beneath the others. A milky white goo—raw liquid latex—begins to trickle down this tiny canal and into a metal pail below. “I love being in the forest, it’s an inexplicable feeling,” says the 23-year-old, who sports a tattered canvas hat and a forearm inked with tree tattoos.

the Guardian • 19th June 2021

Fresh protests in Brazil against Bolsonaro’s handling of Covid pandemic

Thousands of Brazilians returned to the streets on Saturday in protest against the response of Jair Bolsonaro’s administration to a pandemic that has killed close on half a million people in the country – the most after the United States.

The Guardian • 10th June 2021

‘Makes you sick’: fury in Rio as pregnant 24-year-old killed amid police raid

In early June, Kathlen Romeu posted a photo of herself and her boyfriend on a Instagram, with a caption announcing that she was pregnant. “I am discovering myself as a mother, and I am scared thinking about how it is going to be,” the 24-year old interior designer wrote on 2 June. “I laugh, I cry and I am afraid.”

The Guardian • 3rd May 2021

‘Calamity of maternal deaths’: Covid concern grows for Brazil’s pregnant

This month should have been one of the happiest in Letícia Aparecida Gomes’s life. The pregnant 23-year-old Brazilian had been due to marry before delivering her baby, Elloah, in August.

The New York Times • 15th April 2021

How Working From Home Changed Wardrobes Around the World

It wasn’t all sweats and leggings. A whirlwind tour of how the pandemic affected what we wore, from India to Italy.

Time • 6th April 2020

Brazil's President Still Insists the Coronavirus Is Overblown. These Governors Are Fighting Back

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro is in a class of his own. He is the only leader left in the world to reject the consensus of scientists and statisticians on the gravity of the coronavirus outbreak.

Time • 12th September 2019

The Amazon Rain Forest Is Nearly Gone. We Went to the Front Lines to See If It Could Be Saved

If nothing is done, the Amazon might completely disappear before the end of the century

Brazilian Media | Colaborações para o Brasil

National Geographic • 11th May 2022

A jornada de uma aldeia amazônica para escapar do avanço da soja

Todas as noites, homens kisêdjê carregam cadeiras de plástico até o centro de um enorme pátio circundado pelas dezenas de ocas que compõem a aldeia Khikatxi. O período seco e a pouca luz criam um céu negro profundo e estrelado sobre o território indígena Wawi, a nordeste do Mato Grosso.

National Geographic • 14th April 2020

Jovens indígenas sofrem impacto mais agressivo do coronavírus que a média brasileira na mesma faixa etária

Elo mais frágil entre povos que sobrevivem a desigualdades históricas, crianças e adolescentes indígenas representam 5% das vítimas da covid-19 em suas comunidades.

Dialogo Chino • 7th October 2020

O turbulento processo de habilitação de frigoríficos de carne para a China

No credenciamento, Hong Kong e China pedem ainda breve descrição do rastreamento dos bovinos, ou seja, dados das fazendas que fornecem o animal vivo aos frigoríficos. O objetivo é garantir a qualidade sanitária desde a origem do boi, mas, se reforçada, poderia servir como ferramenta contra a compra de áreas onde há desmatamento ilegal.

BBC News Brasil • 17th January 2016

Oito lições de combate à corrupção que a Dinamarca pode dar ao Brasil

Desde que o índice foi criado, em 1995, o país está nas primeiras posições – em que estão as nações vistas como menos corruptas. Nos últimos cinco anos, só não esteve no primeiro lugar em 2011, que ficou com a Nova Zelândia. Esse é o segundo ano consecutivo em que está sozinha no topo.

Projeto Colabora • 27th February 2016

As garotas dinamarquesas

Com quatro indicações ao Oscar, o filme “Garota Dinamarquesa” trouxe de volta aos holofotes a história até então esquecida do casal de pintores dinamarqueses Einar e Gerda Wegener, interpretados por Eddie Redymane e Alicia Vikander, cuja relação foi combustível para avanços na arte e nas discussões de gênero no início do século XX.

The ‘forgotten’ people picking your Brazil nuts

Photography and reporting at the Kaxarari indigenous territory for The Guardian and Diálogo Chino - Brazilian Amazon, 2021

O Globo • 3rd August 2014

Especial Tabaco: outro lado sombrio

Investigação revela que pequenos agricultores sofrem intoxicação com a folha do tabaco. O trabalhou o Prêmio do Ministério Público do Trabalho de Jornalismo em 2015, entre outros.

Investigation reveals that small farmers suffer from intoxication from tobacco leaves. The work was granted journalism awards in Brazil.

Reporting from Sertão region in Brazil, 2018