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The most interacted-with posts on social media contradict trustworthy information about the public’s voting intentions
![Vera Magalhães, jornalista e apresentadora do Roda Viva. Vera é uma mulher branca com cabelos e olhos castanhos.](https://i0.wp.com/apublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/capa-caso-vera-magalhaes-bolsonaro-odeia-as-mulheres-porque-odeia-a-democracia.png?fit=640%2C336&ssl=1)
Jair Bolsonaro, A Perfect Example Of Why Autocrats Hate Women
According to Harvard researchers, free and politically active women are a threat to authoritarian leaders
![Ato Ditadura Nunca Mais, em 2019. Em protesto familiares levantam cartazes escritos ''Onde estão os nossos desaparecidos?''](https://i0.wp.com/apublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/capa-projeto-quer-escavar-e-esquadrinhar-em-sp-um-dos-piores-centros-de-tortura-da-ditadura-1.jpg?fit=640%2C427&ssl=1)
Why Brazil Is Excavating An Infamous Torture Center 40 Years Later
An archaeological project are trying to recover the country's painful history of torture during the military regime
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Climate change threatens Indigenous farming and cultures in the Brazilian Amazon
Floods, unpredictable seasons, and rising temperatures directly affect Indigenous people's food security
![Na ilustração o contorno de uma casa aparece em vermelho, dentro dessa casa há uma criança encolhida, e ao seu lado, uma mochila.](https://i0.wp.com/apublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/capa-defensores-do-homeschooling-no-brasil-recomendam-castigos-fisicos-de-criancas-1-1.png?fit=640%2C360&ssl=1)
Probe Finds Brazil’s Religious Homeschooling Groups Encourage Corporal Punishment
Brazil's religious homeschooling groups are giving parents instructions on how to spank their children
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Communities in Brazil’s adopt new strategies in fight against desertification
In Brazil’s semi-arid northeast, family farmers are using technology and collective resource management to fight climate change and environmental degradation
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How The Trump Universe Is Backing Bolsonaro’s Reelection Bid In Brazil
Gettr has sponsored conservative conferences in Brazil ahead of October’s presidential elections
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Eliesio Marubo: ‘We need the state to maintain a presence in the region’
Brazilian lawyer after indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and journalist Dom Phillips be found dead on June 15
![Casa de apoio na margem do rio Ituí onde Bruno e Dom dormiram a ultima noite antes de desaparecerem na região do Vale do Javari](https://i0.wp.com/apublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/galeria24-cresce-pessimismo-sobre-encontrar-bruno-e-dom-vivos-apos-localizacao-de-pertences.jpg?fit=640%2C427&ssl=1)
Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira’s Last Journey
A suspect has admitted to killing the journalist and Indigenous expert while they were reporting in the Amazon. Agência Pública retraces the steps of their final trip
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Case of journalist Rubens Valente reveals new censorship and puts press freedom at risk
“It is an attack on freedom of expression and information”, says journalist, condemned by STJ and STF for the publication of the book “Operação Banqueiro”
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The hidden marketing machine behind Brazil’s food delivery giant
How iFood used social media to undermine workers’ labor organizing efforts
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Brazilian youth fight to decolonize climate justice
Activists from Brazil’s urban peripheries are among the hardest hit by the climate crisis, and they are becoming increasingly active in the fight against it
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Canadian miners get high-level lobbying boost for Brazilian Amazon projects
Bank Forbes & Manhattan appears to be aided in pushing its mining interests in Brazil thanks to lobbying efforts by an old army acquaintance of the country’s vice president
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Brazil: “I skip meals so I can feed my children”
Single mothers who raise their families alone were hit face on by the loss of jobs and income; women are always the last to eat
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Exports of threatened species’ timber boomed under Bolsonaro, probe finds
An investigation begun in May this year by the Brazilian Federal Police highlighted “a major scheme facilitating the smuggling of rainforest products
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Capoeiristas from one of Brazil’s biggest groups denounce their masters for sexual crimes
Leaders from the renowned capoeira group Cordão de Ouro, which has accredited schools in more than thirty countries, accused of abusing children and adolescents since the 1970s
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Brazil Cattle Linked to Accused Drug Trafficker Sold to Major Companies
João Soares Rocha, who, according to the Federal Police, used cattle-raising to launder money made from drugs, is also involved in slave labour, illegal deforestation and homicide
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U.S. and Argentine investors tied to illegal land deals and deforestation in Brazil
The company BrasilAgro has been under investigation since 2016 — the beneficiaries range from Argentine ranchers to US pension funds and the Bank of New York
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‘Throw them overboard’: Brazil mine disaster victims bullied over compensation
Communities awaiting compensation from the worst environmental disaster in Brazilian history say they’re being stymied by a convoluted legal process that favors those responsible
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Brazil: politicians distribute fake Covid-19 cures
Brazilian mayors peddling 'cures' ahead of November elections
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Damares’ disciples: female evangelicals increasing presence in Brazilian politics
Damares Alves, Brazil’s minister for women, the family and human rights, has inspired a new generation of conservative Christian women to run for public office
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The FBI, the Fusion Center, and the Far Right: US creep in Brazil
The report reveals meetings involving the representatives from other areas of the US Government, such as the Treasury, with the new Justice and Security Minister in the first weeks of his tenure, intended to “deepen Brazil’s legal cooperation with the United States”