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HABITAT-BRAZIL: A Tale of Transport in Two Cities
Sao Paulo and Curitiba, two of the biggest cities in Brazil, are only 350 kms apart but they might as well be in different countries when comparing their policies on public transport policies and the effects on quality of life.ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Alligators Bag Population Recovery Prize
Alligators in the swamplands of western Brazil, threatened with extinction 10 years ago, now are so plentiful there is a risk of overpopulation.BRAZIL-TRADE: Fake Bikes and the Crush of Imports
Brazilian imports of bicycles quadrupled between 1993 and 1995, symbolising not only the extent to which a wave of imports is strangling national industry but the amount of fraud involved in trade.AGRICULTURE-BRAZIL: Agrarian Reform on Front Burner Again Analysis –
The massacre of 19 landless peasants by Brazilian police last month has set the flags flying over the political left again and forced President Fernando Cardoso to bring the issue of land reform onto the front burner.AGRICULTURE-BRAZIL: Agrarian Reform on Front Burner Again
The massacre of 19 landless peasants by Brazilian police last month has set the flags flying over the political left again and forced President Fernando Cardoso to bring the issue of land reform onto the front burner.BRAZIL: Minimum Salary in the Hands of the Legal System
Unions and left-wing parties in Brazil have gone to the Supreme Court, demanding that the minimum salary be raised higher than the 12 percent rise set by the government.BRAZIL: The Street-Child Murderers Come to Court
Eight alleged street-child murderers came up on trial in Brazil this week, bringing the issue of impunity for such human rights offences into the limelight once more.BRAZIL: Community Radio Stations Demand Reform of Airwaves
The Government has presented a bill to the Brazilian Congress to regulate community radio stations that commercial broadcasters would prefer to shut down.BRAZIL: The Victims of a Lack of Space in a Vast Country
In Brazil, one of the world's largest and least populated countries, tragedies such as this week's massacre of landless peasant farmers arise from a paradoxical motive: a lack of space.BRAZIL-HUMAN RIGHTS: Witness Protection Programme Needed
Witnesses willing to testify to murders committed by organized groups in Brazil risked losing their liberty, and often their lives, while the killers continued to roam the streets, according to human rights groups.BRAZIL: Massacre of Landless Rural Workers Shakes Country
Brazil was shaken on Thursday by news of a massacre of landless rural workers, the worst in recent decades, in which at least 19 were killed and more than 30 wounded.BRAZIL: Pardon of Prisoners Seeks to Bail out Bankrupt Penal System
The biggest pardon in Latin American history began Friday to act as an escape valve for Brazil's overcrowded prisons. President Fernando Henrique Cardoso issued a decree that will mean the release of at least 10 percent of the country's 130,000 prisoners.BRAZIL: Landless Protesters Pour into Cities
Thousands of landless rural workers converged on 22 of Brazil's state capitals, seeking to win the urban population's support for their struggle for land reform and the resignation of the agriculture minister.BRAZIL-CHILDREN: ‘Telenovela’ Gets Even more Real
Having revolutionized the Latin American television soap opera genre, the Brazilian "telenovela" is shifting even further as it daringly dramatises real-life problems.BRAZIL-CRIME: Brazil’s New Outlaw Hero
Brazil has a new outlaw hero after a riot in one of the country's main prisons ended with the escape of 43 inmates but also with the safe release of all hostages.BRAZIL-ECONOMY: The Complexity of ‘De-Nationalising’
Confusion and skyrocketing prices triggered by the recent freeing up of petrol and fuel alcohol prices in Brazil are highlighting the complexity of "de- nationalising" the economy, a process that goes beyond the mere privatisation of enterprises.BRAZIL-DEVELOPMENT: Sugar Gets a Bad Rap
Sugar cane, once hailed as the answer to Brazil's fuel shortage, now is being fingered as a source of economic, environmental and labor problems.PRISONS: Riot in Brazil Ends, but Crisis in Argentina Continues
An accord between inmates and authorities put an end Wednesday to the longest prison uprising in the history of Brazil. But there is as yet no end in sight to the crisis shaking 14 of Argentina's penitentiaries.ARGENTINA/BRAZIL: Negotiators Seek to Put an End to Wave of Riots
Negotiators are seeking to put an end to a wave of riots that has broken out in prisons in Argentina and Brazil over the past week, in protest against delays in sentencing, overcrowding and poor conditions.BRAZIL: Prison Riot with 26 Hostages Highlights Collapse of System
Prison riots and jailbreaks are run- of-the-mill occurrences in Brazil, largely due to overcrowding and poor conditions in the country's penal institutions. But some make international headlines, especially when hostages are involved.BRAZIL: Indigenous Communities Face New Threat to their Land
Brazil's Minister of Justice, Nelson Jobim, is in Europe this week to defend a government decree that has been criticised for opening a door to legal disputes regarding the demarcation of land reserved for indigenous groups.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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