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...
by Peter Speetjens | 11/06/2020 | Brazil
Nearly six months after his detention in November 2019, João Romano still finds himself under house arrest. “Every night I have to be home at nine,” said the 27-year old. “And on the weekend, I’m not allowed to leave the house at all.” Among the founders of a local...
by Peter Speetjens | 11/06/2020 | Brazil
‘Een project geïnspireerd door de enorme kracht van de vrouwen in deze regio’, leest het op de poster die de Belo Montedam promoot bij binnenkomst in de Braziliaanse stad Altamira. Elders roemen soortgelijke slogans “families” en “cultuur” als inspiratiebron. Met...
