Brazilië Forum

<r><br/> Eric (Marco Pigossi) is an environmental police officer in Rio de Janeiro. When his wife (Julia Konrad) dies under mysterious conditions, he starts his own investigation of the events. In the meantime, another strange episode takes place: A pink river dolphin — typically found in the Amazon...

<r><br/> During a presentation for Indigenous People’s Week, celebrated in April in Brazil, at his son’s elementary school in Rio de Janeiro, the first thing sociologist José Carlos Matos Pereira did was to show a photo of several individuals and ask the children, “What do you think, are they Indige...

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<r><br/> Americans are fascinated by magic. TV shows like “WandaVision” and “The Witcher,” books like the Harry Potter series, plus comics, movies and games about people with powers that can’t be explained by God, science or technology, have all been wildly popular for years. Modern pop culture is a...

<r><br/> Prominent evangelical leader Beth Moore, who announced in March 2021 that she was leaving the Southern Baptist Convention over its treatment of women, among other issues, recently apologized for supporting the primacy of the theology of “complementarianism.”<br/> <br/> This belief asserts t...

<r><br/> For some years now, Brazilians have got used to adjusting our opinions to fit a particular political stance. The need to shape reality according to our political preferences was played out again in the widespread criticism of two recent Supreme Court rulings that annulled several trials pre...

<r><br/> A military operation against environmental violations in the Brazilian Amazon is coming to a close this month after nearly two years, but the show of force, backed by US$ 71 million in funding, has had no meaningful results and leaves the region vulnerable to the pressures of economic devel...

<r><br/> As a kid growing up in Italy, I remember watching the American TV series “Happy Days,” which chronicled the 1950s-era Midwestern adventures of the Fonz, Richie Cunningham and other local teenagers.<br/> <br/> The show, combined with other American entertainment widely available in Italy in ...

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<r><br/> The Covid-19 pandemic and the measures put in place to mitigate it have exacerbated existing inequalities by forcing millions of workers around the world to lose work and income. Sex workers have been particularly hard hit.<br/> <br/> The long-standing conflation of sex work and trafficking...

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<r><br/> New York recently became the 15th U.S. state to legalize cannabis for recreational use.<br/> <br/> While 67% of U.S. adults support marijuana legalization, public knowledge about cannabis is low. A third of Americans think hemp and marijuana are the same thing, according to the National Ins...

<r><br/> Churches around the world will be holding services for their three most important days during this Holy Week: Holy Thursday, sometimes called Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday.<br/> <br/> Easter commemorates Christ’s resurrection from the dead, the fundamental belief of Christi...

<r><br/> Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro Tuesday accepted the resignations of the current heads of the three armed forces – General Edson Pujol (Army), Admiral Ilqes Barbosa (Navy) and Brigadier Antonio Carlos Bermudes (Air Force) just one day after dismissing Defense Minister Fernando Azevedo and...

<r><br/> We will remember 2020 as the year when the coronavirus pandemic spread worldwide, reached Brazil, and hit our sacred land, causing a grave crisis.<br/> <br/> I have seen various types of foreign invaders enter my indigenous territory over the years. But today, it saddens me even more to see...

<r><br/> Since the mid-1990s, new approaches to poverty reduction have been introduced in countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Some have involved income transfer programs that target poorer citizens based on various means tests. Most have targeted female caregivers, primarily mothers.<br...

<r><br/> A recent Netflix documentary about the legendary Brazilian soccer player Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pelé, tells a compelling story of the athlete’s rise to fame from 1950 to 1974.<br/> <br/> The 99-minute documentary, which includes interviews with the 80-year-old Pelé, shows Pel...

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<r><br/> Nobody likes to be in a state of pain, as pain is an uncomfortable condition in which a person may feel very discomfort in the areas where the pain is. There are different kinds of pain; some can be just a sensation other than stabbing or pinching. The intensity of pain differs in every sit...

<r><br/> What do witches have to do with your favorite beer?<br/> <br/> When I pose this question to students in my American literature and culture classes, I receive stunned silence or nervous laughs. The Sanderson sisters didn’t chug down bottles of Sam Adams in “Hocus Pocus.” But the history of b...