Brazil’s policies threaten
            <i>Quilombola</i>
            communities and their lands amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Coelho, Marcondes Geraldo; Iwama, Allan Yu; Gonzalez, T.S.; Neto, Eduardo Carvalho da Silva; Araos, Francisco; Carolino, Kátia; Campolina, Daniela; Nogueira, Aico S.; Nascimento, Vagner do; Santos, Ronaldo dos; Perkins, Patrícia E.; Fearnside, Philip M.; Ferrante, Lucas

doi:10.1080/26395916.2020.1845804

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“…Pedro Serra, a professor of constitutional law at the Pontifical Catholic University in São Paulo, described the status of Manaus most eloquently: "In the field of political and moral philosophy, which ends up influencing the interpretation of legal norms, Auschwitz was for the exercise of political power in times of war as Manaus is for the exercise of political power in health issues" [65]. President Bolsonaro's actions have increased the threat to vulnerable groups such as indigenous people [3] and quilombolas (descendants of escaped African slaves) [66]. A set of bills known as the "death agenda" has reduced the protection of indigenous lands [67].…”

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“…Data presented in the CPI show that proportionally more indigenous and black people die from COVID-19 than the white population [76]. Higher mortality in these vulnerable populations [76] can be seen as a reflection of government policies related to the so-called "death agenda" that affects indigenous peoples and quilombolas [67], together the social vulnerability that these peoples face [3,66] and genetic vulnerability of indigenous peoples [3]. President Bolsonaro used the Brazilian army to weaken protection of the Amazon, and the army distributed hydroxychloroquine to the indigenous people [69].…”

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How Brazil’s President turned the country into a global epicenter of COVID-19

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In this manuscript, we point out that the federal government headed by President Bolsonaro has pursued a political agenda that contributed to the spread of COVID-19, transforming the country into a major repository for SARS-CoV-2 and its variants, thus representing a risk for worldwide containment efforts. Furthermore his actions are also weakening democratic institutions, which could counter his political agenda, effectively facilitating the spread of COVID-19. Thus, the perpetuation of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil is due to human behaviour factors, especially high-level public decision makers.

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“…Quilombos (Palenques in Spanishspeaking Latin America) were the first free territories founded by formerly enslaved Brazilians. Today, Brazil's more than 5,000 Quilombos are at the frontline of struggles against environmental destruction; however, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the loss of traditional knowledge resulting from the death of elders, has been particularly hard on traditional communities (Coelho-Junior et al, 2020).…”

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Reparation ecology and climate risk in Latin-America: Experiences from four countries

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IPCC's Sixth Assessment is a landmark in recognizing social justice and local knowledge as imperative for successful climate adaptation; however, taking this new scientific consensus seriously has profound implications. While narratives of fossil fuel companies and closing climate windows often dominate climate politics, there is an urgent need for new thinking frames, especially given that everyday adaptations by the most vulnerable are often hindered by incumbent actors at more local scales. In response, this paper tackles the issue of climate risk and human wellbeing in Latin America from an emerging and innovative perspective: reparation ecology. Reparation is a heuristic category by means of which we systematize converging evidence about the responses of local Latin-American communities to severe socio-environmental crises that are closely connected to climate risks and to long-lasting threats to the wellbeing of human societies and ecosystems. The results focus on a comparative analysis of five case studies on nature-based urban adaptation in two low-income settlements in Brazil; local ecological governance led by actors from the organized civil society in Colombia; agroecological and just innovative food production systems in Ecuador and sustainable urban-rural food markets in Guatemala. Assuming the complexity of climate change from a culturally and geographically located perspective, the paper unveils the non-doomed, ecologically reparative character of these initiatives. It therefore contributes to the recent turn in the debate on climate risk, claiming that diverse groups of people and communities around the world are contributing to radical change, tuning their behaviors and social arrangements in what an emerging scholarship defines as reparation ecology.

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“…Quilombola communities have a unique ethnic identity and depend on the land for their physical, social, economic, and cultural reproduction. Due to the social and environmental vulnerability of most Quilombola territories, the Quilombola communities experience a critical state of living conditions, which has been aggravated during the COVID-19 pandemic (Coelho-Junior et al, 2020).…”

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Brazil’s policies threaten Quilombola communities and their lands amid the COVID-19 pandemic

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How Brazil’s President turned the country into a global epicenter of COVID-19

How Brazil’s President turned the country into a global epicenter of COVID-19

Reparation ecology and climate risk in Latin-America: Experiences from four countries

Climate Justice and Participatory Research

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