Gold miners return to Yanomami lands

One by one they emerge from the thick, green tangle of rainforest; tiny brown specks, flecked with red paint, fluorescent green parrot feathers and with …

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Interview with the Brazilian journalist Ricardo Linck shown …
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Scenes from Goiania

August 6, 2008
Covering the appalling murder of British teenager Cara Burke in Brazil's midwest has not made it an easy week. But the sunsets that descend on the city each night were at least some distraction. This is the view from my …

Take away Fio-Dental

August 2, 2008
This week I'm in Goiania, a small city in Brazil's midwest covering the murder of British teenager Cara Burke. Goiania is known for its cattle industry and the city's steak houses are packed to the rafters with chewy beef. So …

Scenes from Rio 1

July 9, 2008
I visited a contact on the west-side of Rio on Monday. From Rio's beach districts it takes nearly two hours to get there. When I arrived, this is what I found. Two local boys had apparently been shot by the …
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