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This text, written by Lucas Pedretti and edited by Thiago Domenici, was originally published on Agência Pública's website on March 27, 2024. An edited version is republished on Global Voices under a partnership agreement. In the early days of March 1985, shortly before José Sarney assumed the presidency, the National Information Service (SNI) produced a secret study, which compared the performance of intelligence agencies in democracies and in totalitarian regimes, with the title “Information in democratic regimes.” In its assessment, employing “certain methods” in democracies could represe...
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Hong Kong has among the highest per capita meat consumption in the world, at 664g per day, equivalent to two pieces of 10-oz steak. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Used with permission. The following investigation was conducted by HKFP and Repórter Brasil journalists Mercedes Hutton and Piero Locatelli. It was published on HKFP on March 31 2024 and republished on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement with HKFP. At first glance, there is little to link a handful of featureless Hong Kong office spaces to the world’s largest tropical rainforest. But supply chain data — obtained by non-profit ...
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Image by Fabio Rodrigues-Pozzebom/Agência Brasil, used with permission. This text, written by Fernanda Diniz, was originally published on Agência Pública's website on January 31, 2024 in the section ‘Entrelinhas do Poder’. An edited version is republished on Global Voices under a partnership agreement. The Annual Report on Violence Against Journalists and Press Freedom in Brazil, by the National Federation of Journalists (FENAJ), revealed a considerable reduction in cases of direct violence against media professionals across 2023 but showed greater use of lawsuits by those trying to hinder jou...
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Marielle Franco at the Maré Complex, where she grew up. Photo by Bernardo Guerreiro/Mídia Ninja on Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED) For 2,202 days, Brazilians asked who killed and who ordered the killing of Rio de Janeiro city councillor Marielle Franco on March 14, 2018. After six years, this March 24, the federal police arrested three men suspected of being the ones responsible for planning the crime and hiring gunmen to execute it: Domingos Brazão, a politician and adviser for Rio's Court of Auditors, his brother, Chiquinho Brazão, a federal congressman, and Rivaldo Barbosa, former head of Rio de...
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Brazilian journalist Amanda Lima. Photo: Personal archive, used with permission. On February 3, Amanda Lima published a story in the Portuguese daily Diário de Notícias about two protests that took place on the same day in Lisbon, but with very different agendas. While at Largo do Intendente, people celebrated different cultures with music, cuisine, and signs that read “Migrants welcome,” less than one kilometer away, at Largo de Camões, a far-right nationalist group held signs declaring “Portugal for Portuguese people,” hailing historic dictator Salazar and protesting against what they called...
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Members of Araújo family, a Quilombola community. Photo by Thais Domingos/Nonada, used with permission. This article, written by Thais Domingos, was originally published on Nonada's website on January 8, 2024. It is republished here under a partnership agreement with Global Voices, with edits. The Jardim Brasília neighbourhood is in central Betim, in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte city, in Minas Gerais state. A few metres away from the regional hospital is the Familia Araújo Quilombola community, the area’s first urban quilombo. Historically, quilombos were communities formed by Bla...
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Screenshot from the Observatório de Censura à Arte site, used with permission This article by Isabelle Rieger is published on Global Voices under a partnership agreement with Nonada Journalism, creator of the Observatório de Censura à Arte (Art Censorship Observatory). Art can cause strangeness, anger, sadness or joy; it all depends on who sees it. But although arousing emotion in the viewer is a characteristic of artistic endeavor, the themes of some exhibitions and works can lead to censorship and boycott. Brazil has been proof of that. To map these activities, in 2019, Global Voices’ media ...
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Illustrations from the report by Somos. Collage by Global Voices using images by Rachel Gepp, with permission. Harassment, absence of basic hygiene and health products, lack of food, annulment of identities and other violations of human rights appear in stories heard in Brazilian prisons gathered in the “National inspection report: LGBTI+ population deprived of liberty in Brazil,” published in the second half of 2023. Cover illustration: Rachel Gepp, used with permission. The report was prepared by Somos — Comunicación, Salud y Sexualidad, a non-governmental organization that joined the LGBTQ+...
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