The latest census confirms after 150 years a change in the racial majority in Latin America’s biggest country. This shift is due to demographic causes, affirmative action policies and greater consciousness
Coffee plantations with the Rainforest Alliance seal have recently been the site of incidents of slavery. For the director of the initiative in Brazil, these are exceptional cases and the investments required on the farms improve the accommodation and wages of the workers.
São Paulo’s four municipal veterinary hospitals care for thousands of pets in an initiative shared by other Latin American cities, but that does not exist in Europe
While the debate about the decolonization of museums has recently picked up steam, the São Paulo Museum of Art has already spent almost a decade giving prominence to indigenous and Afro-Brazilian art, putting it ahead of the work by painters like Gauguin or Van Gogh