[Police Violence\Brazil]
BBC: “Fourteen-year-old João Pedro Mattos Pinto was killed while playing with friends during a botched police operation in a favela in Rio de Janeiro.”
Photo: YouTube
Brazil
Brazilian Blacks Face Police Murder like Blacks in America
Brazil’s Black Domestic Workers Fight for Change after Boy’s Death
[Mirtes Renata Santana de Souza\Miguel]
Time: “On July 14 Pernambuco’s public prosecutor announced he was charging Corte with “abandonment of a vulnerable person resulting in death”—a crime punishable by 4 to 12 years in prison.”
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Brazil: Bolsonaro Mismanaging COVID-19, Destroying Amazon Through Deforestation
[Brazil\COVID-19\Amazon]
CNN: “There is no telling how grim things might get for Brazilians left largely unprotected by their President, Jair Bolsonaro…the far-right populist sometimes known as ‘Tropical Trump’ also manages protection of the Amazon.”
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For Black Brazilians, Like African-Americans, COVID-19 is Deadly
[Black Brazil\COVID-19]
The Conversation: “The Brazilian Health Ministry had already flagged high COVID-19 death rates among Afro-Brazilians, a category that includes people who identify as “Black” or “Brown” in the census.”
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SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA TRAVELS TO BRAZIL FOR 11TH BRICS SUMMIT
[Africa News\South Africa]
BRICS is an association of five major emerging countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – which together represent about 42% of the global population, 23% of GDP, 30% of the territory and 18% of the global trade.
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