February 04, 2010 Xinhua News
	Brazil opens largest natural gas pipeline in South America -- On Wednesday, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula inaugurated the opening of the continent's largest natural gas pipeline. The state-owned pipeline is 179km long and cost $1.38 billion.
January 28, 2010 BBC News
	Brazil's Lula cancels Davos trip after falling ill -- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has cancelled his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos after falling ill with high blood pressure.
January 27, 2010 The New York Times
	Brazil's Silva Gets Hero's Welcome at Social Forum -- Brazil's first working-class president got a hero's welcome at the World Social Forum, wowing 10,000 leftists with a vow to reproach the planet's business titans for causing the global meltdown when he meets with them this week at a Swiss ski resort.
January 27, 2010 Democracy Now!
	World Social Forum Convenes in Brazil -- Thousands of people have gathered in Porto Alegre, Brazil this week for the tenth annual World Social Forum.
January 20, 2010 Upside Down World
	Rio de Janeiro: Control of the Poor Seen as Crucial for the Olympics -- The prospect of the FIFA World Cup in 2014 followed by the Olympic Games in 2016 has reignited the debate about public security in a country where there is an undeclared war taking place in the favelas between the military police, paramilitary groups, and drug traffickers, but where the principal victims are the poor.
January 11, 2010 BBC News
	Brazil reflects on Lula's last year -- In his last full year as Brazilian leader President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva still commands the political stage here, his popularity at levels most other world leaders would envy.
December 08, 2009 Human Rights Watch
	Brazil: Curb Police Violence in Rio, São Paulo -- Police officers in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo routinely resort to lethal force, often committing extrajudicial executions and exacerbating violence in both states, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
November 23, 2009 Toward Freedom
	Brazil: GM's Rainforest Racket -- In Brazil, people with some of the world's smallest carbon footprints are being displaced—so their forests can become offsets for SUVs.
November 12, 2009 CommonDreams.org
	Shooting Itself in the Foot, Brazil Spreads Concrete Through the Rainforest -- Brazil houses the largest expanse of tropical wilderness remaining on the globe, claiming 60% of the Amazon Rainforest. This is a vast and remote stretch which thirty years ago only Indians and wild animals roamed. Today, ranchers and sawmill owners in four-wheel-drive pickup trucks speed past new stores selling chain saws, construction materials, and farm equipment.
October 05, 2009 CommonDreams.Org
	Brazil Cattle Industry Giants Unite in Banning Amazon Destruction -- In a major step forward for climate protection, today four of the biggest players in the global cattle industry joined forces to ban the purchase of cattle from newly deforested areas of the Brazilian Amazon from their supply chains, backing Greenpeace's call for zero deforestation in the rainforest.
October 03, 2009 The Detroit News Online
	After Olympic party, hard work ahead for Brazil -- As Rio awoke from a night of celebration after being awarded the 2016 Olympics, Brazil was already looking ahead to years of hard work in what will be a historic time in Latin America's biggest nation.
July 23, 2009 Amnesty International
	Safety for Brazilian activist after Amnesty International action -- A Brazilian organization has thanked Amnesty International after an action by the organization brought safety to a peasant farmer and land rights activist.
June 25, 2009 Toward Freedom
	Fordlandia: An Interview with Greg Grandin -- In this interview Grandin talks about what led him to write his recent book, Fordlandia, The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City, the auto industry, US foreign policy, and the modern day parallels to this failed American utopian adventure in the Amazon.
June 01, 2009 New Internationalist
	Lock out the poor -- In Rio, a wall is being built to separate the slums from the city
May 02, 2009 BBC News
	Brazil clears Indian reservation -- Brazilian police and soldiers have begun an operation to remove non-indigenous residents from an Indian reservation in northern Brazil.
April 27, 2009 Toward Freedom
	The City that Ended Hunger -- Frances Moore Lappé writes about the changed fate of Belo, a city of 2.5 million people, that once had 11 percent of its population living in absolute poverty, and almost 20 percent of its children going hungry, that now has declared a "right to food."
January 28, 2009 BBC News
	Brazil holds 'alternative Davos' -- Tens of thousands of social activists and environmental and political groups have gathered in the Brazilian city of Belem for the World Social Forum.
December 02, 2008 BBC News
	70% deforestation cuts for Brazil -- Brazil has announced a plan to reduce deforestation rates in the Amazon region by 70% over the next ten years.
June 20, 2008 Associated Press
	Brazil creates new Indian Reservation -- President of Brazil decrees a new Indian reservation in the heart of the Amazon rain forest's logging frontier
June 11, 2008 Americas Policy Program
	When More Is Less: The Limited Impact of Foreign Investment in the Americas -- A comprehensive review of the impact of foreign investment liberalization in Latin America shows that, with some exceptions, foreign investment has fallen far short of stimulating broad-based economic growth and environmental protection in the region, according to a report by the Working Group on Development and Environment in the Americas.
June 03, 2008 Associated Press
	Brazil seeks sanctions against US -- Brazil will seek sanctions against the U.S. after winning a World Trade Organization ruling on cotton subsidies.
June 03, 2008 Associated Press
	Brazil cracks down on Amazon cattle -- Rio de Janeiro,Brazil - Destruction of the Amazon seems to be on the upswing, and Brazil's Environment Minister has wasted no time in aiming at a villain: Cattle.
April 19, 2008 The New York Times
	With Guns and Fines, Brazil Takes On Loggers -- This is Operation Arc of Fire, the Brazilian government’s tough campaign to deter illegal destruction of the Amazon forest.
April 15, 2008 BBC News
	Brazil in 'major oil field' find -- Brazil has discovered what could be the third biggest oil reserve in the world, according to the head of the country's National Petroleum Agency.
April 06, 2008 The New York Times
	Amazon’s ‘Forest Peoples’ Seek a Role in Striking Global Climate Agreements -- MANAUS, Brazil — Some wore traditional headdresses, and some traveled by riverboat or canoe. But the dozens of “forest peoples” who descended on this capital of Amazonas State last week had a common goal of becoming bigger players in global climate talks.
January 23, 2008 Upside Down World
	Australian-Style Intervention of Indigenous Communities Moves to Brazil -- There's a new law being debated in Brazil that threatens to undermine the rights and livelihoods of all Indigenous people in this South American nation.
October 29, 2007 naclanews
	Corporate Murder in Brazil: Land Activists Shot by Militia Linked to Multinational -- In the Brazilian state of Paraná, Valmir Mota de Oliveira of Via Campesina, an international peasant organization, was shot twice in the chest at point blank range by armed gunmen on an experimental farm of Syngenta Seeds, a multinational agribusiness corporation. The cold blooded murder took place on Sunday, October 21 after Via Campesina had occupied the site because of Syngenta’s illegal development of genetically modified (GM) seeds.
August 02, 2006 Z Magazine
	Green Tide: Plantations, Indigenous Rights, & Genetically Engineered Trees -- In November 2005 we traveled to an international meeting in Vitoria, Brazil. The purpose of the gathering was to discuss plantations, genetically engineered trees and their impact on local and indigenous communities.
July 26, 2006 IPS
	Race Quotas - Accused of Racism. -- The imminent approval of a law that establishes obligatory quotas for Afro-Brazilians and indigenous peoples at public universities, and of a Racial Equality Statute that defines public policies for promoting ethnic groups who suffer discrimination, has sparked a resurgence of the controversy about how to combat racism and inequality in Brazil.
July 25, 2006 (IPS)
	Soy Industry Joins Effort Against Amazon Deforestation. -- The environmentalist movement, and especially international watchdog Greenpeace, are celebrating a new victory in Brazil: the big companies that process and export soy have decided not to buy soybeans from newly deforested areas in the Amazon jungle.