Dispatches from the now-now.
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From colonial courts to modern legislation, Brazil’s trans history reveals how visibility without protection becomes exposure — and why January 29 is a denunciation of state violence, not a feel-good milestone.
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A dam sold as “safe,” a town treated as disposable, and a river turned into a waste management plan.
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Maceió exposes how multinational capitalism absorbs catastrophe, exports responsibility, and waits patiently for profit to return.
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As climate change fuels dengue’s spread, Brazil’s one-dose vaccine arrives like a political and scientific thunderclap.
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Between 4 and 5 AM, twenty pistoleros raided a Guarani Kaiowá village. One man was executed. The country keeps calling it “conflict.” The community calls it what it is: survival against a state-backed land war.
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Portugal’s quiet coastal town becomes a battleground of global data capitalism — and a mirror of everything the country still hasn’t solved.
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A rifle isn’t bought easily.
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After years of oil-soaked climate conferences in petro-kingdoms, COP30 lands in the Amazon’s front yard — where the forest is dying, China’s electric cars roll in, and Lula’s Brazil is ready to prove that hope isn’t naïve, it’s political.
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Portugal’s health minister turns a tragedy into an accusation, proving that the colonial gaze survives — even in a white coat.
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In a courtroom outside Lisbon, a police officer explains why killing a Black man was “legitimate.” This is what justice looks like when fear becomes policy.
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Behind anti-Israel speeches and “solidarity with Palestine” tweets, Latin America keeps buying the very weapons and spyware built on Palestinian suffering.
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Over a hundred dead in a single raid expose what Rio still calls order: a colonial logic that turns public security into state-sanctioned sacrifice.