Amazonas

• Sao Paulo shrouded in darkness as Amazon rainforest continues to burn

  According to Global News meteorologist Ross Hull, a few factors came together at "just the right moment" to place Sao Paulo under a shroud of darkness.

  World

  Aug 20, 2019
  
• 42 inmates found strangled to death after rival gangs clash in Brazil prisons

  A federal task force is being sent to Manaus in an effort to halt the violence. Prison clashes often spread rapidly in Brazil, where drug gangs have de facto control over nearly all jails.

  World

  May 27, 2019
  
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• Brazil investigating reported massacre of members of ‘uncontacted’ Amazon tribe by gold miners

  If confirmed, the massacre would be one of the worst such tragedies since the murder of 16 Yanomami indigenous people in 1993.

  World

  Sep 12, 2017
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• 50 inmates dead, several escape after Brazil prison riot

  An unknown number of inmates are reported to have escaped in the chaos.

  Crime

  Jan 2, 2017