Former U.S. president headlines ousted autocrat double-header by following Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro at annual far-right convention. The former presidents of Brazil and the United States took the stage CPAC on Saturday where both fascist politicians continued to sow doubt about their respective electoral defeats as they received standing ovations from the annual convention’s far-right attendees. […]
The country’s justice minister said the right-wing former president bears “a political responsibility” for the attack on “the buildings of the three branches of powers, aiming at a coup d’état.” Brazilian Justice Minister Flávio Dino said Monday that “about 1,500” people have been arrested since supporters of Brazil’s far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro attacked government buildings in […]
“For this was indeed a genocide—the deliberate wiping out of an entire people by cattle ranchers hungry for land and wealth,” said one Indigenous rights campaigner. Activists and conservationists worldwide mourned Monday following news that a man believed to be the last of a remote Brazilian tribe was found dead after years of resisting all efforts […]
“At this rate, we will not be able to keep global warming below 1.5ºC, a target defined in the Paris agreement,” said the conservation institute Imazon. Encouraged by President Jair Bolsonaro, deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest surged to its highest annual level in a decade over the past year, with researchers warning that the accelerated destruction […]