Brazil

The outcome of this year's election will likely set the stage for the murky years to come, be those years of recovery—or persistent chaos.

• By Chayenne Polimédio

Brazilian presidential candidate for the Democratic Labour Party, Ciro Gomes, campaigns in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil, on September 4th, 2018, ahead of the October 7th national election.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

After an unprecedented outbreak of violence in a border town that has become the main entry point for Venezuelan migrants, the Brazilian government on Monday ruled out closing the border.

• By Jack Herrera

Brazilians have become increasingly disenchanted with soccer as political scandals continue to cloud the country's news cycle.

• By Chayenne Polimédio

We spoke with four economists about Russia's claims of a World Cup-related financial windfall. They were all skeptical.

• By Ian Hurley

Many hope the 2018 election will give Brazilian democracy a much-needed restart, but given the circumstances of corruption and bad candidates, that seems like a long shot.

• By João Feres Júnior & Fabio Kerche

Members of the Munduruku tribe leave the Acampamento Terra Livre (Free Land Camp) in Brazil to protest in front of the Ministry of Justice on April 24th, 2018, against a proposed dam on their land.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The feminist advocate and city council member was gunned down after mediating a debate about women's rights.

• By Kamille Viola

With crisis-stricken Venezuela spilling refugees into Colombia and Brazil, politically expedient deportations make the situation worse.

• By Dylan Baddour

Protesters demonstrate in support of former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on January 24th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Thousands of Brazilians protest against a controversial bill that aims to cut the right to abortion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on November 13th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Illegal logging continues to be a persistent problem in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, threatening an already fragmented wildlife habitat and forcing indigenous tribes off their land.

• By Claire Asher

A new report finds that scientists described 381 new species of wildlife from the Amazon in peer-reviewed scientific journals between January of 2014 and December of 2015. Some, however, are already on the brink of extinction.

• By Shreya Dasgupta

Increasing beef productivity and engaging directly with the supply chain may be a flawed approach when seeking positive conservation outcomes.

• By Mike Gaworecki

Norwegian government officials are warning Temer that his country risks losing millions in financial aid that Norway pays to Brazil to help rein in deforestation in the Amazon.

• By Mike Gaworecki

Deforestation increased almost 60 percent last year, with the forest losing over 29,000 hectares, a new report says.

• By Ignacio Amigo

The Temer administration and Congress, controlled by the bancada ruralista agricultural lobby, is trashing environmental, indigenous, and social rights.

• By Sue Branford & Maurício Torres

Brazil's diverse range of land defenders are holding back against illegal logging simply by living as they do.

• By Maximo Anderson

With every outbreak, we must balance on the knife's edge between worrying too much and doing too little.

• By Kate Wheeling

Even the ones we don't have names for.

• By Nathan Collins

Brazil's program of increased enforcement in communities with high deforestation rates appears to have worked.

• By Nathan Collins

Brazil's Congress is considering a measure to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 18 to 16. But this proposal misses the mark as an effort to reduce crime. We should try creating new norms for masculinity instead.

• By Gary Barker, Tatiana Moura & Victoria Marie Page

A round-up of news and research on stadium spending gone wrong.

• By Max Ufberg

New research finds zero-deforestation pledges are effective, and buying zero-deforestation products helps.

• By Francie Diep