by Peter Speetjens | 06/06/2021 | Brazil
Having photographed people and landscapes in over 100 countries, Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has returned to the country of his birth for his latest book, Amazônia, which is at once an ode to the beauty of the world’s largest rainforest and a cry for its...
by Peter Speetjens | 07/04/2021 | Brazil
Op 17 februari overleed Aruká Juma (86) aan de gevolgen van corona. Hij was niet de enige, zo’n 1150 Brazilianen stierven die dag aan het virus. Maar Aruká was de enige van het Juma-volk die overleed. En hij zal ook de laatste zijn. Want met hem verdween de laatste...
by Peter Speetjens | 23/11/2020 | Brazil
The media portrayal of Brazil’s annual fire season — which in 2020 is trending worse than in 2019 — is “surreal” according to the country’s vice-president, Hamilton Mourão, who spoke during a web seminar on 27 August. Not flames and deforestation, but “development” is...
by Peter Speetjens | 23/11/2020 | Middle East, South America
Hezbollah militants backed by Iranian mullahs plotting alongside Venezuelan generals, Colombian revolutionaries and drug lords to first flood the US with cocaine and then launch the next 9/11 attack. It sounds like your typical Hollywood action flick, yet it stems...
by Peter Speetjens | 11/06/2020 | Brazil
In een radio-interview op 21 januari 2019 verkondigde de secretaris voor Strategische Projecten, Maynard Marques de Santa Rosa, dat de regering Bolsonaro drie infrastructuurprojecten in het noorden van het Amazonewoud wilde lanceren. Het Projeto Barão do Rio Branco...
