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Paula Góes

Contributor profile · 594 posts · joined 31 August 2007

Portuguese Language Co-Editor

Brazilian journalist and translator living in London. I am also proud to be a volunteer translator for the Global Voices Lingua project in Portuguese. Follow me also @paulissima [en] or @paulagoes [pt]

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Latest posts by Paula Góes

5 August 2010

Brazil

Jesse Lerner-Kinglake reports on the last day of the protest by the Awá, a Brazilian indigenous people, to try to prove its existence. “If anything, this week’s protest should prove to the developers and politicians alike that the Awá do indeed exist.” The blogger writes about the crisis facing this endangered tribe.

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23 July 2010

Brazil

Lou Gold reacts to Andrew Revkin's post at the NY Times blog DotEarth on the future of the Amazon: “Can we really keep marketing the land, its products and services? Can the market really be the final arbiter? What are its limits? Perhaps only catastrophe can show them to us? Perhaps Nature's justice will be the teacher?”

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24 June 2010

Brazil: “Tsunami” hits some of the poorest riverside cities

By Paula Góes · Americas

At least 46 people have been killed and an estimated hundreds are missing after torrential floods swept through states in the north-east Brazil, in the worst environmental tragedy in the local population's memory. 3

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7 June 2010

Brazil

Rio Gringa reviews Rio é Assim: a crônica de uma cidade, a book by José Carlos Oliveira, “one of the most realistic, jarring, heartbreaking, inspiring, hilarious, and truly Carioca literary visions you will find of the city.”

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28 April 2010

Brazil: Arrest of Indigenous leader increases tension in Bahia

By Paula Góes · Americas

On March 10th, unidentified armed police invaded Serra do Padeiro, a Tupinambá indigenous village, and arrested their leader and later his brother. They are still in prison and their detentions have increased the tension in the region. read »

7 April 2010

Brazil: Blogosphere in support of anti-corruption bill

By Paula Góes · Americas

A bill that seeks to prevent politicians who have committed serious crimes from running in elections is going viral in Brazil, with nearly 2 million signatures in a petition. 11

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