English + Español
In the mornings, we woke up to the frogs calling out for rain. My routine as a child was the same every day; I would crawl out from my mosquito net and look for my mother. She would already…
English + Português
In February 2020, I was getting ready to launch the second season of Basic Unit, the fictional TV medical series I started creating 10 years ago. I’m a medical doctor and I’d dreamed up this program that portrays the daily routine of a team of primary health care…
English + Português
“The most important thing is audacity,” the Amazonian environmental activist Maria said to me. “If you have the courage to fight, then fight,” her husband, Zé Claudio, emphasized…
Images of bulldozers felling large trees appear on the screen. With a heroic soundtrack in the background and narration in an epic tone, the voice over declares, “the revolution comes to the jungle.” The color footage is from a 1971 Brazilian newsreel about the construction of…
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English + Español
English class is super-cool, 15-year-old bilingual student, Ricardo, told me. Not so much Quechua, an indigenous language offered at his public high school in a valley town of Cuzco…