News Brazil Alagoas: Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro Approves Controversial ‘Faceless Courts’
Rio de Janeiro has become the seventh state in Brazil to adopt “faceless judges,” which are already being used in Pará, Mato Grosso, Bahia, Roraima, Santa Catarina and Alagoas. The “faceless tribunals ...
News Brazil Alagoas: Sociology and philosophy are just the first victims in Bolsonaro’s culture war
Brazil's far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, threatens to slash funding to sociology and philosophy departments. It was just the opening shot in a new battle against the humanities.
News Brazil Alagoas: Brazil to continue blocking uncertified mobile phones
... mobile phones to four more Brazilian states in the North region (Amazonas, Roraima, Para, Amapa); nine in the Northeast region (Maranhao, Piaui, Ceara, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraiba, Pernambuco, ...
News Brazil Alagoas: Tourism in Maceio, Brazil
Built on the profits of the sugar cane industry, Maceio is the capital city of the northern Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its primary draw is the 13 miles of urban beaches that line the serpentine oceanfront, and as a gateway to the powder sand beaches to the north and south. Just off the coast, rocky reefs form shallow ...
News Brazil Alagoas: Nine Dead as Rural Violence Escalates in Brazilian Amazon
Violence in the Brazilian countryside is on the rise ... Photo by Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra Alagoas. The most recent killings took place on April 3 in a landless peasant workers’ ...
News Brazil Alagoas: EMERGING MARKETS-Latam stocks rise tracking global equities; FX weakens
Petrochemical company Braskem SA slid after an appeals court in Alagoas state ruled the company's shareholders cannot approve its planned payment of 2.7 billion reais ($697 million) in dividends. ...
News Brazil Alagoas: Amazonian soils mapped using indicator species
To overcome this problem, researchers from the University of Turku in Finland and the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) and the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) in Brazil decided ...
