Articles by Fabíola Ortiz
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Hydropower Dam to Flood Sacred Amazon Indigenous Site
Fabiola Ortiz – Inter Press Service-IPS,
27 Aug 2012
The Sete Quedas or “seven waterfalls” on the Teles Pires River, which runs through the Amazon rainforest states of Mato Grosso and Pará in central Brazil, are a spiritual oasis venerated by several indigenous groups. But the 20-metre-high rocky falls are to be covered by a reservoir created by a hydroelectric dam that is to flood an area of 95 square km.
→ read full articleBrazil Forging Strategic Alliance with Africa
Fabíola Ortiz – Inter Press Service-IPS,
14 May 2012
The Brazilian government of Dilma Rousseff is taking firm steps towards stronger relations with Africa, such as the creation of a special fund to finance development projects together with multilateral lenders like the World Bank. Ex-President Lula said, “Africa cannot be looked at like it used to be seen, as a simple supplier of minerals and gas…We have to find African partners. We don’t want hegemony; we want strategic alliances.”
→ read full articleBrazil: Community Radio Flourishes Online
Fabíola Ortiz – Inter Press Service-IPS,
30 Jan 2012
Community radio stations in Brazil are finding the internet and user-friendly information technologies to be valuable allies for their broadcasts, which focus on citizenship, social equity and human rights.
→ read full article“Drug Addicts Are Sick, Not Criminals”
Fabíola Ortiz – Inter Press Service-IPS,
3 Oct 2011
“The Police Pacification Units-UPPs are not going to fix all of Brazil’s, or Rio de Janeiro’s, problems, but the areas that have been ‘pacified’ today have already seen a decline in the various indicators of crime,” said police Major Eliécer de Oliveira, coordinator of UPP training and teaching in the military police.
→ read full articleBrazil-Africa: Teaching Diplomacy
Fabíola Ortiz – Inter Press Service-IPS,
26 Sep 2011
African countries are increasingly taking up Brazil’s offer of training in the art of diplomacy, seeing it as a partner that could help them set up or improve their own foreign service institutes.
→ read full articleBrazil: African Refugees in the Amazon
Fabíola Ortiz – Inter Press Service-IPS,
19 Sep 2011
Wilson Nicolas, from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was the first African refugee to find his way to Brazil’s Amazon jungle region, and seems to have started a trend.
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