Author: Renata Bessi and Santiago Navarro F.

An indigenous nation in the industrialized heart of South America

September 23, 2014

The regions in the south and southeast of Brazil are the richest areas in the country and the most industrialized in Latin America. The southeast alone is responsible for 60% of GDP, and thus, in this region 90% of the population is concentrated in urban zones. In this geography of modernity there is also an indigenous territory that is in its death throes, the land of the Guaraní.

El fantasma de la dictadura en Brasil

August 21, 2014

Rio de Janeiro, 6:30 de la mañana, día 12 de julio, víspera de la final de la Copa del Mundo de Brasil, disputada por Alemania y Argentina. La abogada y activista Eloísa Samy recibe una visita inesperada en su casa.

Biío Hioxo Wind Energy Project Hurting Indigenous Peoples and their Territories

May 17, 2014

The chickens run between the rows of crops at Don Celestino Bartolo’s ranch, a farmer who wipes the sweat from his brow after sowing what may be his last harvest of corn. Rosalino, his son, milks his cows and points with sadness toward the place where they used to fish. A huge wind turbine stands there now–one of 117 installed by the company Gas Natural Fenosa.