The year of 2021 was a complicated one for Brazil’s environment, reaching records of devastation and mining in indigenous people’s land. In the news story you’re going to watch experts analyze the dismantling promoted by the country’s current government and outline an overview of 2022.
"If we look back, the Bolsonaro government fullfilled all its campaign promises, which were to end the so called 'fines industry'. But nobody imagined that the promise of ending the so called 'fines industry' would cause all this destruction of the environment and all this dismantling of the instituitions that have the power to control and combat it", says André Freitas, the Amazon Campaign Manager at Greenpeace Brazil.
Also on All What's Happening in Brazil: Women working as collectors of recyclable materials transform the challenges they face during the pandemic and the economic crisis in the book “Resistance quarantine”, Also, the sounds of the Caymmi family and Brazil reaching 620,000 deaths due to covid-19.
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Edited by: Arturo Hartmann
