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The River Isn't a Road: Lula's Betrayal on the Tapajós
Brazil's federal police are guarding grain barges. The people who guard the river are getting tear gas.
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Dispatches from the now-now.
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When the Smallest Country Shows the Biggest Spine ...
Timor-Leste’s donation after Portugal’s floods exposes the moral gap between economic “growth,” rising racism, and a state that performs empathy instead of delivering protection.
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Visibility Is a Battlefield: Inside Brazil’s Trans Struggle From Carnival to Congress
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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Brumadinho Was Not a Tragedy. It Was a Business Model.
A dam sold as “safe,” a town treated as disposable, and a river turned into a waste management plan.
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Maceió: The Ground Sank. Capital Didn’t.
Maceió exposes how multinational capitalism absorbs catastrophe, exports responsibility, and waits patiently for profit to return.
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Game-Changer: Brazil Just Approved the World’s First Single-Dose Dengue Vaccine
As climate change fuels dengue’s spread, Brazil’s one-dose vaccine arrives like a political and scientific thunderclap.
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No One Wakes Up Safe in Iguatemi
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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Sines: The Future Arrives, but the Past Refuses to Leave
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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FAQ: How does an AK-47 end up in a favela?
A rifle isn’t bought easily.
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Welcome to Belém: The COP Where the Global South Takes the Wheel
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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From Colony to Ministry: The Circle That Never Broke
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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The New Normal: Self-Defense, Portuguese-Style
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.