This week, in What’s Happening in Brazil, we take a look at how poor, mainly black communities are not only being ravaged by the pandemic, but still facing the same old issues they have been for decades, like racism, systematic abandonment and widespread police brutality.
In our Culture Talk segment, learn how the Landless Workers Movement (MST) is putting forth the lofty environmental goal of planting 100 million trees over the next ten years, and how it plans on doing it. One of the people spearheading this initiative explains how this, as well as ecological agriculture and family farming are helping the lives of rural residents.
Our story of the week highlights how the destruction of the Amazon rain forest is increasing drastically during the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. A lack of oversight coupled with direct and indirect support from the Jair Bolsonaro administration, is fueling illegal logging and the deliberate burning of the vegetation. The communities who live in these areas now face disaster on two fronts: the outbreak and the destruction of their homeland.
Finally, as is tradition on our show, we showcase a music video from local artists as well as a delicious Brazilian recipe in our Brazilianism segment.
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Edited by: Ítalo Piva
