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COVID doesn’t live here anymore: vaccination turns Brazilian city into healthy oasis
Brazil has the world’s second deadliest outbreak with more than 461,000 deaths and a very slow immunisation pace due to the lack of vaccines.
- by Tatiana Bautzer
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Latin America’s COVID wave prompts a spike in vaccine tourism
“The guy didn’t even ask what we came here to do,” Colombian Juan Bojacá said. “I had practiced like 80 times how to say ‘vaccines’ in English.”
- by Ernesto Londoño, Daniel Politi and Santi Carneri
In feathers, Bolsonaro visits indigenous land in Amazon despite protests
The Brazilian President inaugurated a bridge that allows access to areas where major reserves of niobium have been found.
- by Anthony Boadle
Millions of hectares of forest have grown back since 2000
But that’s no excuse to sit around waiting for it to happen, say the researchers who quantified the regeneration.
- by Umberto Bacchi
Last wild macaw in Rio is lonely and looking for love
Almost every morning Juliet appears. She swoops onto the zoo’s macaw enclosure and, through the fence, engages in behaviour that looks like conjugal canoodling.
- by David Biller
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Crime
Rio’s deadly police raid prompts claims of abuse, revenge
The bloodshed lays bare Brazil’s perennial divide over whether, as a common local saying goes, “a good criminal is a dead criminal”.
- by David Biller and Marcelo Silva de Sousa
Brazil shocked by police raid that leaves dozens dead in Rio de Janeiro favela
Some questioned whether police were flouting a court ruling last year that forbade them from storming favelas during the pandemic unless under “absolutely exceptional” circumstances.
- by Terrence McCoy
Colombia, strained by pandemic and poverty, explodes in protest
The explosion of frustration could presage unrest across Latin America, where several countries face the same combustible mix of health and economic crises.
- by Julie Turkewitz and Sofía Villamil
Brazilian teenager kills three children, two workers in childcare centre
Other children were taken to hospital with injuries along with the knife-wielding attacker, who was overpowered by police.
- by Leonardo Benassatto
Brazil passes 400,000 COVID-19 dead, daily toll to plateau for months
Brazil has registered 3001 new COVID-19 deaths in 24 hours, taking its total since the pandemic began to 401,186.
- by Pedro Fonseca
‘Serious defects’: Brazil regulator rejects Russia’s Sputnik vaccine
A crucial issue was the presence in the vaccine of the adenovirus that could reproduce a “serious” defect, an Anvisa expert said.
- by Ricardo Brito