South America

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PART OF: Redress Stories From the Jungle

The Indigenous People of the Amazon Rainforest, Cornered by COVID-19 and a Devastating New Land Law (Spanish)

Multiple Authors

July 31, 2021
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PART OF: After the Deluge

After Mudslide, Priest Builds a New Town on Narco Land

Multiple Authors

July 30, 2021
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PART OF: The World They Inherit

The Pandemic Plunged Millions of Latin Americans Into Poverty. Its Youth Are Inheriting the Consequences

Patrick McDonnell
Grantee

July 29, 2021
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Extracting Ecuadorian Amazon Balsa Wood To Boost Green Energy in Europe

How should this green paradox be dealt with?

Multiple Authors

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PART OF: The Big Business of Deforestation

The Amazon Is Fast Approaching a Point of No Return

Multiple Authors

July 29, 2021
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Lesson Plans

Indigenous Representation, Discrimination, and Erasure in Brazil’s Cities

Students will analyze multimedia reporting and consider questions of Indigenous representation, discrimination, and erasure.

Maryel Cardenas
Pulitzer Center Alum

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July 27, 2021
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Alcântara Goes to Space: The Impact of a Rocket Launch Site in the Brazilian Amazon

The trauma of forced removals, experienced during the dictatorship by the largest Quilombola...

Multiple Authors

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PART OF: Greener Than Gold

‘Green as Gold’: A Portrait of Fear Over a Colombian Mining Project (Spanish)

Isabella Bernal Vega
Amazon RJF Grantee

July 18, 2021
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Greener Than Gold

AngloGold's mining project La Quebradona could make things worse for the spectacled bear.

Isabella Bernal Vega
Amazon RJF Grantee

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PART OF: Alcântara Goes to Space: The Impact of a Rocket Launch Site in the Brazilian Amazon

Expansion of Dictatorship-Era Space Base Threatens to Repeat Quilombola Evictions (Portuguese)

Ana Mendes
Amazon RJF Grantee

July 16, 2021
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PART OF: Alcântara Goes to Space: The Impact of a Rocket Launch Site in the Brazilian Amazon

'I Didn't Know I Would Be In the Military' (Spanish)

Ana Mendes
Amazon RJF Grantee

July 16, 2021
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PART OF: Amazônia Minada | Mined Amazon

Global Demand for Manganese Puts Kayapó Indigenous Land Under Pressure

Multiple Authors

July 14, 2021