Random fun fact: Brazil has around 2,500 airports.

Random fun fact: Brazil has around 2,500 airports.

blacklgbtdeservetolive: We Want This Trend To Be...

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indigenous-caribbean: Indigenous Movement Stops Construction of...

indigenous-caribbean:

Indigenous Movement Stops Construction of Brazilian Mega-Dam

In a historic victory, one of Brazil’s largest Indigenous Nation has managed to suspend construction of a mega-dam that threatened to submerge their home. The Brazilian Indigenous agency FUNAI finally demarcated the territory of the Munduruku People, providing the legal basis to suspend construction of the São Luiz de Tapajós dam.

These 700 square miles of land – known as Sawre Muybu – are now legally recognized as the traditional territory of the Munduruku and protected under the Brazilian constitution, which grants Indigenous people the right to free, prior, and informed consent before the government can use their land.

The Munduruku have been fighting for this right since 1975, standing up to a government more interested inquestionably “green” energy and expansion than in protecting Indigenous communities. In 2013, FUNAI actually conducted research confirming the status of Sawre Muybu as Munduruku territory, but failed to publish it due to government pressure. In response the Munduruku began the process of “auto-demarcating” their land, setting up signs and trenches to mark off their territory. They organized meetings, wrote letters, built alliances and staged occupations. Over the years they refined their strategy and took lessons from the fight against the Belo Monte mega-dam, which also wiped out species and displaced thousands of Indigenous Peoples.

Women played an important role in this struggle, as they often do in movements for land rights and against resource extraction. In 2015, Maria Leusa Kaba traveled to Paris for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference to receive the UN Equator Prize for the Munduruku’s campaign to self-demarcate their land.

“We the Munduruku People are going in the reverse direction the Europeans went 500 years ago, to tell the world that we will resist until the last man the construction of hydroelectric dams on the Tapajós River,” Kaba said.

This comes as Brazil is in political crisis and has begun the process of impeaching its president. The win to stop the damming of the Tapajós could be short-lived if the conservative, business-friendly politicians leading the impeachment process gain power and roll back land rights.

But the Munduruku have promised that they will never stop fighting for Sawre Muybu and today, I salute their hard-won victory.

Brazil Is Confronting an Epidemic of Anti-Gay Violence

Brazil Is Confronting an Epidemic of Anti-Gay Violence:

leuchtendewesen:

“While Americans have fiercely debated how to respond to the massacre last month at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Brazilians have been confronting their own epidemic of anti-gay violence — one that, by some counts, has earned Brazil the ignominious ranking of the world’s deadliest place for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people.”

Stay safe guys. :( 

Libraries Around the World: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

This is the Jataí, a bee native to Brazil. Like all bees native to Brazil, she has no stinger and...

paddysnuffles: I wonder who was the first person to be like “We should refer to human children as...

paddysnuffles:

I wonder who was the first person to be like “We should refer to human children as ‘baby goats’.”

I wonder if it maybe started for a similar reason to why Brazilian moms call their kids their “little calf” (bezerrinho).

The mindset behind “little calf” being that the sound children make when calling for their mom (and the tone they do it in) sounds just like a calf calling for its mother (”Mããããããe…”)

Being both Lusophone and Anglophone means...

paddysnuffles:

…Always way overdoing the number of K’s when you lol on your posts/comments in Portuguese because you’re paranoid Anglophones will see “kkk” or “KKK” and get the wrong idea.

@leuchtendewesen

1337tattoos: Róbert Bunda What an ironic surname to have...

1337tattoos:

Róbert Bunda

What an ironic surname to have when the art piece is of a bug whose butt lights up.

(to non-Lusophones: bunda means “bum/butt” in Brazilian Portuguese)

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4mysquad:

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Caught On Tape: Brazilian Minister Plots To Overthrow Dilma Rousseff

Caught On Tape: Brazilian Minister Plots To Overthrow Dilma Rousseff:

crooksandliars:

A high-ranking Brazilian minister has stepped down after audio emerged of him plotting with others to bring down President Dilma Rousseff’s administration.

The Guardian reports that Romero Jucá, planning minister, will “go on leave” after a recording of a telephone conversation was released in which he said Rousseff needed to be removed to quash a vast corruption investigation which enmeshed him and many other members of the Brazilian political elite.

More from The Guardian report:

But the dubious motives and machiavellian nature of the plot to remove Rousseff are apparent in the transcript of a phone conversation between Jucá – a powerful ally of Temer’s in the Brazilian Democratic Movement party (PMDB) – and Sérgio Machado, a former senator who until recently was the president of another state oil company, Transpetro.After discussing how they are both targeted by Lava Jato prosecutors, Jucá says the way out is political: “We have to stop this shit,” he says of the investigation. “We have to change the government to be able to stop this bleeding.”

Machado concurs: “The easiest solution would be to put in Michel [Temer].”

Temer is, of course, the man who stepped in as “interim President” and replaced most of the cabinet members after Rousseff was impeached.

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brazilianism: São Paulo tried a different approach on the war...

brazilianism:

São Paulo tried a different approach on the war on drugs: actually helping the people addicted to crack by supporting them with food, shelter, medical aid and job opportunities. And the results are very much positive. 

brazilianism: Thousands of women take the streets of São Paulo,...

brazilianism:

Thousands of women take the streets of São Paulo, Brazil, this Sunday to protest against the new government of Michel Temer, which was the first in decades to feature only white males as ministers. Pictures by Mídia Ninja.

New President of Brazil, Michel Temer, Signals More Conservative Shift

New President of Brazil, Michel Temer, Signals More Conservative Shift

Brazil’s Democracy to Suffer Grievous Blow as Unelectable, Corrupt Neoliberal is Installed

Brazil’s Democracy to Suffer Grievous Blow as Unelectable, Corrupt Neoliberal is Installed

Brazilian Colloquialisms, Sayings, and Slang #104

Por pouco - By little

Depending on the context it’s the equivalent of “nearly”, “close call”, “by very little”, “barely”, and/or similar words.

ex. Eu passei o teste por pouco mas passei! - I barely passed the test, but I passed!

Por pouco que o caminhão não bateu no carro - The truck nearly hit the car/the truck missed the car by very little

The impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is a coup d’état

The impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff is a coup d’état:

justinspoliticalcorner:

With the likely impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff (and likely her VP Michel Temer) impending, the fate of Brazil is uncertain, as the nation will host the Olympics this August. She is one of the many politicians in that country involved in the Operação Lava Jato (Operation Car Wash) scandal.

The Câmara dos Deputados (Chamber of Deputies) voted to impeach her on April 17th, 2016 with a 367–137–7–2 vote, of which Deputado Bruno Araújo was the 342nd Yes vote. The Senado Federal will vote in the next few days whether to remove her from office.

[…]

In conclusion, impeaching Dilma will lead to a coup d’état orchestrated by right-wing forces akin to what they pulled off against João Goulart in 1964 (only this time, they are doing the Goularting in Congress, and not by the military junta) is a horrible idea.

Full post at Medium. 

Brazilian Colloquialisms, Sayings, and Slang #103

Né? - Eh?/Huh?/Yeah?/Innit?/Right?

An interjection used at the end of sentence for emphasis.

Particularly popular in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais.

Literally, it’s a contraction of Não é? (Isn’t it/is it not?).

ex. Tá frio hoje, né? - It’s cold today, eh?

Te vejo amanhã à tarde, né? - I’ll see you tomorrow afternoon, right/yeah?

Tá is the colloquial shortened form of está (she/he/it is)

Unlike in English, in Portuguese most of the days of the week have nothing to do with deities.Monday...

Unlike in English, in Portuguese most of the days of the week have nothing to do with deities.

Monday is segunda-feira (literally, “second-fair/ second-market”, Tuesday is terça-feira (third-market/third-fair), and so on. 

The only faith-based days in Portuguese are Saturday (sábado) after sabbatum (the Latin word for Shabbat, Hebrew for “Sabbath”) and domingo from the Latin word Dominicus (of the Lord). 

buzzfeed: These Brazilian kids have been learning English by...

buzzfeed:

These Brazilian kids have been learning English by gently correcting celebrities’ grammar on Twitter.