Lucinda Elliott

A ‘cow bond’ scheme in Uruguay collapsed into one of the country’s biggest financial scandals, affecting thousands of investors to the tune of $350 million.#uruguay #cattle #southamerica #News #Reuters #Newsfeed Read the story here:…

Activists in Brazil are sounding the alarm over the fate of a native forest that is almost entirely lost and, like the Amazon, is in serious danger. The Mata Atlantica used to cover one million square kilometres, roughly the entire Atlantic coastline…

With more than 294,000 lives lost, Brazil has the second-highest Covid-19 death toll in the world. For more than 20 days in a row, the country has recorded more than 2,000 daily deaths from the disease. Healthcare workers around the country have been…

In a remote town in Brazil's Bahia State, a health and environmental disaster linked to industrial pollution has been going on for decades. A lead smelter that opened in 1960 and closed in the 1990s continues to poison residents of Santo Amaro. They…

Although the issue of race helped successive Brazilian governments win votes at the turn of the 21st century, the Black population in Brazil is now witnessing a setback. The country, which has the world's second-largest Black community, is now run by…