South America

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PART OF: Trespassers: Meet the Giant Food Companies Driving Record Invasion of Indigenous Lands in the Amazon

Collagen and Deforestation: How We Uncovered the Dirty Origins of a Beloved Wellness Product

Elisângela Mendonça
Rainforest Investigations Fellow

May 24, 2023
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Brazil’s Ministry of Labor Will Investigate Exploitation of Yanomami People After Pulitzer Center-Supported Reports

Brazil’s Ministry of Labor (MPT) will investigate the exploitation of the Yanomami Indigenous people...

Grace Jensen
Pulitzer Center Staff

May 19, 2023
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PART OF: Traceless Wood

Colombia’s Constitutional Court Will Examine Carbon Credit Conflict for the First Time

Andrés Bermúdez Liévano
Rainforest Investigations Fellow

May 18, 2023
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PART OF: Blood Timber War

Indigenous Chief Shot in Head in Brazil’s ‘Palm Oil War’ Region; Crisis Group Launched

Karla Mendes
Rainforest Investigations Fellow

May 17, 2023
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PART OF: 'Not an Inch': Bolsonaro Ignores Obligation To Demarcate Indigenous Lands

Demarcation of Indigenous Land With Exploitation of Piassaba by Private Owners Has Dragged On for 16 Years at Funai (Portuguese)

Multiple Authors

May 15, 2023
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Bolsonaro’s Legacy to Lula: Illegal Mining Infests Indigenous Lands

The infestation of illegal gold mining on Indigenous lands was triggered by Bolsonaro's discourse...

Multiple Authors

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PART OF: 'Not an Inch': Bolsonaro Ignores Obligation To Demarcate Indigenous Lands

Groups With an Interest in Yanomami Piassaba Are Organizing To Exploit the Fiber (Portuguese)

Multiple Authors

May 14, 2023
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PART OF: 'Not an Inch': Bolsonaro Ignores Obligation To Demarcate Indigenous Lands

Yanomami Are Exploited in the Piassaba Extraction Industry with Long Working Days and Accumulated Debt (Portuguese)

Multiple Authors

May 13, 2023
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PART OF: The Big Business of Deforestation

The Human Cost of Going Green

Multiple Authors

May 4, 2023
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PART OF: Exposing Inequalities: How the Health Care System Failed in Venezuela

Inequity by Design: The Case of COVID-19 Vaccination Centers in Venezuela

Multiple Authors

May 3, 2023
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Project

Panará, ‘Giant Indigenous People,’ Monitor Their Land Against Recent Invasions

Covering territorial defence actions on Panará Land. Indians almost extinct in the 1970s, forced to...

Multiple Authors

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PART OF: Brazil, the New Stronghold of the Antivax Movement

Channels of Antivax Doctors Continue To Thrive on Telegram (Portuguese)

Multiple Authors

April 27, 2023