Altamira, Brazil – Drive about 90 minutes outside this sultry Brazilian Amazon town, and into the thicket of the jungle, and a surreal, other-worldly scene appears. It’s a place where dozens of steel arms with giant claws from land excavators cut into the red earth, carving out deep holes. There are earth movers, growling bulldozers [...]
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Gabriel Elizondo Last Modified: 20 Jan 2012 15:16 Reposted from Al Jazeera In Depth Features Joao Pimentel is a key figure behind the building of the Belo Monte Dam, Brazil’s biggest. He has decades of experience in the energy sector in Brazil, having worked in both the private and public sectors. He was interviewed by [...] By SIMON ROMERO Published: January 6, 2012 NY Times BRASILÉIA, Brazil — Of the odyssey that delivered him to this town in the Brazilian Amazon, Wesley Saint-Fleur could muster only a look of exhaustion and bewilderment. Months ago, he boarded a bus in Haiti, before getting on a plane in the Dominican Republic, landing first [...] Archaeologists find remains of port where hundreds of thousands of Africans were sold to plantation owners Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro guardian.co.uk, Friday 4 March 2011 09.17 EST It was one of the busiest slave ports in the Americas, a filthy, bustling harbour where hundreds of thousands of Africans were sold into a life [...] Tooth analysis shows Africans taken from wide area ranging from Sudan in the north-east to Mozambique in the south Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 20 December 2011 15.21 EST Locals called it the “cemetery of the new blacks”, but in truth it wasn’t much of a cemetery. Devoid of headstones, wreaths or [...] The Huffington Post James Gerken First Posted: 9/15/11 09:28 AM ET Updated: 9/15/11 09:38 AM ET Last month’s worldwide protests against the Brazilian government’s Belo Monte Dam project may have ended, but concerns about deforestation and displacement of indigenous populations remain. Now, there may be something else to worry about. Philip M. Fearnside, a researcher [...] The Boston Globe Sept. 19th 2010 One year after the death of Neguinho do Samba, the gentle but relentlessly grooving revolution that he helped launch in Brazil’s northeastern state of Bahia continues to win converts and transform old notions of Brazilian identity. As the founder of the powerhouse percussion ensemble Olodum, Antonio Luis Alves de [...] Tom Phillips in Engenho II, Kalunga Territory guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 25 August 2010 18.40 BST When Jorge Moreira de Oliveira’s great-great-great-great-great-grandfather arrived in Brazil in the 18th century he was counted off the slave-ship, branded and dispatched to a goldmine deep in the country’s arid mid-west. After years of scrambling for gold that was shipped to [...] Join us for the Journey of a Lifetime as we intimately explore Bahia, Brazil and reconnect with our sisters and brothers for 10 amazing days. If you would like more information about this journey please click the image above or simply jump to see the itinerary, deposit information as well as exclusive audio of “LIVE [...] BBC World Service Last updated: 3 november, 2009 – 14:29 GMT The Brazilian census board says that the black population in Brazil will outnumber the white population this year for the first time. This means there are more people of African descent in Brazil than in any country outside of Africa itself, making Brazil second [...] |
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