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Sao Paulo, Oct 16 (EFE) .- Brazilian artist Mundano gives life to more than 200 kilos of ash collected in the Amazon which were a result of the recent fires in Brazil with a huge mural in Sao Paulo, where he seeks to denounce the environmental "dismantling" that is taking place in his country.(Camera: WALLACE CARVALHO / SEBASTIAO MOREIRA) SHOT LIST: BRAZILIAN ARTIST MUNDANO'S MURAL IN SAO PAULO, BRAZIL.SOUND BITES: ARTIST MUNDANO (IN PORTUGUESE):1. (I want) to incite people to reflect on what future they want. because climate change is already a reality, we already see its impact all over the world. 2. I had the idea to reflect on 'café labrador', which is an iconic work by Portinari, because she is a pioneer in showing inequality and the impact of agribuisiness. 3. When the forest is reduced to ashed, we too become ashes. 4. Then I thought that (the gray) would be more dramatic, more cisceral and more shocking, and that is the goal of the mural.5. I think we are witnesses of the greatest socioenvironmental settlement in our history under the Bolsonaro government and we cannot keep quiet.
Quito, Feb 8 (EFE) .- (camera: Juan Francisco Chávez) After more than a decade of struggle in Ecuador between two well-defined political visions, correísmo versus a conservative liberalism, Sunday's elections have thrown a protagonist with proper name: the indigenous leader and environmentalist Yaku Pérez.
Brasilia, Sep 1 (EFE).- Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced on Tuesday an infrastructure program that would expand internet connections in the north of the country and benefit 9 million people living in the vast Amazon region. The program will be supported by investments amounting to 1 billion reais (about 182 million dollars) and allow the installation of underwater fiber-optic networks that will run along the Amazonian rivers for 10,000 kilometers. (Camera: ALEX MIRKHAN). SHOT LIST: JAIR BOLSONARO DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE ON AMAZON RAINFOREST INTERNET PROGRAM, IN BRASILIA, BRAZIL. SOUND BITES: JAIR BOLSONARO, BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT (IN PORTUGUESE).TRANSLATION: It is necessary to integrate the Amazon with our own resources. If one day we need resources from other countries, we can even accept them, but it will be from countries that have our same ideals of freedom and democracy. (01:02-01:25).
Brasilia, Apr 24 (EFE).- A former federal judge who gained international recognition by spearheading a sprawling anti-graft campaign resigned Friday as Brazil's justice minister, accusing President Jair Bolsonaro of political meddling for dismissing the country's top police official earlier in the day.(CAMERA: Tiago Rodrigues)
Brasilia, Feb 12 (EFE) .- Half a hundred indigenous people from different ethnic groups in Brazil protested on Wednesday against a bill presented by President Jair Bolsonaro which authorizes commercial mining in protected lands, a measure they consider the "worst of their nightmares".(CAMERA: Alex Mirkhan)SUPPORT IMAGES AND TRANSLATED DECLARATIONS BYJOENIA WAPICHANA, INDIGENOUS FEDERAL DEPUTY:"President Bolsonaro again wants to threaten indigenous lands and natural resources. Indigenous peoples want to raise this concern, asking the national congress to reject it due to the unconstitutionality and absurdities that this proposal brings"INGATÉ, KAINGANG INDIGENOUS:"He (Bolsonaro) is aware of what he is doing and does it out of spite. We have the right to our land. The land has always been ours, it has only been invaded, so we want to live well with the people who were born in this mother Earth"
Huge swaths of rainforest continue to smoke and burn in Brazil's northwestern state of Rondonia where fire-fighting efforts are concentrated, which has prompted growing global uproar and a diplomatic spat between France and Brazil IMAGES
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