Peoples Dispatch The first shipment of oxygen tanks from Venezuela arrived to Manaus, Amazonas on the night of Tuesday January 19. Photo: Twitter/Jorge Arreaza Trucks carrying oxygen tanks arrived to the city of Manaus in the Brazilian state of Amazonas from Venezuela on the night of January 19. Venezuela had announced on January 14 that…
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Simon Bolivar Brigade with 107 Venezuelan and Brazilian Doctors Trained at ELAM-Caracas Offer Emergency Care in Manaus (COVID-19)
The Simón Bolívar Brigade, with 107 Venezuelan and Brazilian doctors trained at the Latin American School of Medicine Dr. Salvador Allende (ELAM) in Caracas, is ready to provide services for the necessary emergency care in the city of Manaus, Brazil, after the members of the medical brigade presented themselves this Friday, January 15, at the…
Venezuela Sends Oxygen Tanks to the Brazilian State of Amazonas Amid COVID-19 Surge
Peoples Dispatch Nicolás Maduro called for his government to send oxygen tanks to the Brazilian state of Amazonas amid the surge in COVID-19 cases and collapse of healthcare system. Photo: Twitter At the request of President Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan government is sending tanks of oxygen to the Brazilian state of Amazonas. The information was…
Black Women, Mothers, Workers: The Frontlines of the MTST
Camila Valle and Tainã Góis One only has to look around any occupation by the Brazilian Homeless Workers’ Movement (MTST) to notice that the majority of people there are women. Research done in 2014 by a volunteer tech support group acting alongside the movement estimated that women make up approximately 70 percent of active members….
From Eritrea to Bolivia: Who Supported the Washington Backed Coup?
Filmon Zerai On October 18th, 2019 Eritrean activist Vanessa Tsehaye quote tweeted an article from Bolivian activist Jhanisse Vaca Daza published on the Human Rights Foundation page, encouraging the overthrow of socialist leader Evo Morales. A tweet from Vanessa Tsehaye (@vanessateshaye) “If democracy and human rights are further compromised, Bolivia could become the next Venezuela….
Brazil’s Threatened Countryside: The Geraizeiros Facing a Chinese Mining Megaproject
Caroline Oliveira e Vanessa Nicolav 81 year old Adelina Xavier de Moraes, has lived on the land since she was born and never intends to leave – Vanessa Nicolav Between heaven and earth, life takes its course, according to the geraizeiros, who are traditionalist populations living in the highlands of northern Minas Gerais, a state…
Denialist Brazil Generates Fatalities with its War on Vaccines
Tulio Ribeiro Brazil is a continental country, with about $350 billion in foreign exchange reserves obtained by progressive governments between 2003 and 2015. It has a strong industrial chain and was once the fifth largest economy in the world. There is no lack of resources to face adversity. Keep in mind, all this economic capacity…
Structural Racism in Brazil
Emir Sader In Brazil, it is said that there is a structural racism. The country is the model slave country of the world. For at least three centuries, Brazilian workers were millions of black people brought from Africa to be slaves. This degraded both the black man and the work, considered a minor activity, carried…
How the MST Proposes to Stand Up to Agribusiness by Planting Organic Soy
Erick Gimenes Soy begins to grow at the Ernesto Che Guevara settlement Farmers from the Ernesto Che Guevara settlement in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul sow 100 hectares of poison-free soy Farmers from the Ernesto Che Guevara settlement, of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) in Sidrolândia, Mato Grosso do Sul, began planting…
800 Afro-Brazilian Families Face Expulsion with the Expansion of the US Alcântara Base
Daniel Giovanaz Protesters occupy the entrance to the Alcântara Launch Center. File Photo Courtesy Brasil de Fato Antonio Marcos Diniz was only 13 years old when his family was forced to leave their home near Brazil’s Atlantic coast in 1983. Along with 311 other families, they had to move 60 kilometers west to Agrovila Peru…
Agroecology Means Popular Resistance at MST’s Marielle Vive Camp
Daniel Lamir Footage of the Marielle Vive camp, highlighting its mandala garden – Julio Matos There are about 700 families in transition threatened by real estate speculation For more than two years, around 700 families from the Landless Rural Workers Movement(MST) have been transforming the idle setting of the old Eldorado Ranch, in the Valinhos…
Brazil’s 2020 Elections: Where the Left Grew, Where the Right Maintained its Hegemony
Daniel Giovanaz and Igor Carvalho The 2020 municipal elections will be marked by the strengthening of left-wing parties among the 100 largest cities in the country and the failure of most candidates identified with the ultra-right or supported by President Jair Bolsonaro (without a party). At the same time, the traditional right has gained ground…
