Soy and cattle: The dark side of Brazil’s economic boom
Brazil isn’t only beaches and samba. There are also many regions with only soy and cattle farming. Here’s what we saw.
Following the europeans through south Brazil
Rio Grande do Sul is the southernmost state in Brazil. It is mountainous and rocky in the north, on the edge of the São Paulo plateau, and flat in the south. The state is strongly characterised by immigration from Europe in the 19th century, mainly Italian and German-speaking immigrants. They fled the economic and political …