Arrested by Brazilian Federal Police, cattle rancher Bruno Heller and relatives have already received over US$ 5 million in environmental fines. He is also suspected of land grabbing.
Arrested by Brazilian Federal Police, cattle rancher Bruno Heller and relatives have already received over US$ 5 million in environmental fines. He is also suspected of land grabbing
Hyury Potter. Born and raised in the Amazon region, freelance reporter Hyury Potter writes about corruption and the environment from Brazil. He is the author of the Mined Amazon project, a real-time map published by InfoAmazonia that tracks illegal mining requests within Indigenous lands and protected areas. The project was supported in 2020 by the Amazon Rainforest Journalism Fund and the Pulitzer Center. In 2019, it won a Journalism Innovation Grant awarded by the International Center for Journalists and The Wall Street Journal. In 2022, he started his second year as an RIN fellow. In 2021, he published investigations about illegal mining and clandestine airfields in collaboration with outlets in the U.S. and Belgium. He has previously worked for Deutsche Welle Brazil, in Bonn, Germany, and several other newsrooms in Brazil.
Democracy Is Fragile: Peru's Latest Crisis. Demonstrators clash with police during a protest against President Dina Boluarte in Lima on January 19. Image by Joseph Moreno M/Shutterstock. Peru, 2023.The Upheaval in Peru is a Lesson for the Region One month into Peru’s social and political crisis, which began when former President Pedro Castillo attempted to dissolve Congress in what has been called an auto-coup, there still seems to be no imminent solution. Statements from both Congress and the Dina Boluarte administration suggest that an early 2023 general election and constitutional overhaul aren't on the political agenda, two of the main demands from protesters. Meanwhile, a 2021 LAPOP AmericasBarometer survey reported that only 21% of Peruvians expressed faith in democracy, and recent local polls show high levels of disapproval of both branches of government. Democracy in the Western Hemisphere has suffered in recent years, from the U.S. to Brazil, and now in Peru. The