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Even as Brazil hits 500,000 COVID-19 deaths, many reject available vaccines to demand Pfizer
Brazil has recorded half a million COVID-19 deaths, a toll second only to the US that shows few signs of easing.
- by Julia Leite, Gabriela Mestre, Luana Vicentina and Bloomberg News
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Peruvians re-weave 500-year-old Incan bridge broken in pandemic
“It’s like an answer to the pandemic itself. This bridge is strung up across the Apurimac and we can tell the world we are coming out if this little by little.”
- by Carlos Valdez
Bolsonaro fined for flouting mask rules at motorcycle rally
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said he could count on police officers “whatever happens,” as the far-right former army captain dubbed the country’s state military police “my army”.
- by Eduardo Simões
It’s official: the Southern Ocean is the world’s fifth
National Geographic announced this week it will recognise the body of water that encircles Antarctica and runs along Australia’s southern coast near Victoria, as the world’s fifth.
- by Paulina Firozi
Bolivia’s Uru ‘people of water’ try to salvage their language after losing their lake
The country’s second-largest lake is gone. It dried up about five years ago. Its people and language are struggling to stay alive.
- by Carlos Valdez
Socialist teacher clings to tight lead over Fujimori heir as vote count nears end
He was an unlikely presidential candidate, a rural teacher who for the past 25 years has seen his students struggle in crumbling schools where his colleagues also cook and sweep floors.
- by Marco Aquino and Marcelo Rochabrun
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
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