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Brazil news

description Magazine for those interested in Brazil
Area of ​​Expertise Brazil
language German
First edition 1976
Frequency of publication twice a year
editor Brazil Initiative Freiburg eV
Web link www.brasiliennachrichten.de
ISSN 0173-6582

The Brazil News is a biannual magazine that reports on current developments and background topics from politics, society, culture and economy in Brazil . They are published, edited and published by the Brazilian Initiative Freiburg eV on a voluntary basis. The editorial office is located in Freiburg im Breisgau .

History and focus

The magazine was founded in 1976 during the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964–1985) by the “Aktion Brennpunkt Brazil”, in which the solidarity groups had come together. The Brazilian news first appeared in Bonn at the Working Group of Catholic Student and University Communities (AGG), which had taken over the coordination of Aktion Brennpunkt Brazil, and then from 1980 in the Brazilian customer publishing house in Mettingen . The editors were Josef Senft and Hubertus J. Rescher. In the mid-1980s, the Brazilian initiative Freiburg eV took over the publishing of the Brazilian news.

In the early days of the Brazil News, many solidarity groups were motivated by Dom Hélder Câmara , Archbishop of Piauí, the poorest state in Brazil. People who had lived and worked in Brazil for a long time also took part in the initiatives. B. Günther Schulz from the Brazil Initiative in Freiburg, who had established contacts there with the young landless movement MST, of which relatively little was known abroad at the time, and also took part in some of their land occupations.

Although much has changed since then, the editors of the Brazil News point out that the realization of human rights in many areas is still pending. The editors of the magazine are still trying to point out grievances without, however, denying the beautiful, positive sides of Brazil. Aside from the clichés of sun, beach, carnival and samba, they want to convey a more objective image of Brazil to the German public. The fact that topics that were of great importance in the founding phase are being continued or re-explosive in the current political debates can be seen e.g. B. in the German-Brazilian nuclear deals.

On June 27, 1975, the Federal Republic of Germany and Brazil signed a twelve billion mark agreement for the supply of a complete set of nuclear energy equipment, including a uranium enrichment plant and a pilot plant for the reprocessing of spent fuel. In their articles, the authors of the Brazilian news primarily pointed out the danger of the military use of nuclear technology by the Brazilian military dictatorship and researched evidence documents that were published in the brochure “The German-Brazilian Nuclear Business”.

In 2016, Wolfgang Kunath wrote in the Brazilian News that the nuclear deal that Brazil’s right-wing military concluded with Bonn in the 1970s cost Brazil eight billion dollars but was of little use. Despite this, and despite the nuclear disaster in Japan , Brazil intends to continue its nuclear program undeterred. Hermes guarantees were applied for in February 2010 for the delivery of the systems for the completion of the Angra III nuclear power plant . The federal government approved 1.5 billion euros for this, but the final loan approval is still pending. In a letter to the Federal Chancellor and the responsible ministries in March 2011, the Brazilian News, together with numerous other organizations, called for the guarantee to be withdrawn.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Brazil News - The magazine for those interested in Brazil since the mid-70s .
  2. ^ Introduction, Brazil News from February 1, 1980, Mettingen 1980, pp. 1f.
  3. ↑ a b 25 years of solidarity work , Brazil Initiative Freiburg eV
  4. ↑ Günther Schulz: 30 Years of the Landless Movement MTS , Brazil News, July 2014 (PDF file, 530 kB).
  5. ^ Josef Joffe: The German-Brazilian nuclear agreement . In: Die Zeit , January 21, 1977.
  6. ↑ Working group of Catholic student and university communities (AGG), ai -Brazil coordination group, Federal Association of Citizens' Initiatives Environmental Protection (BBU) (Ed.): The German-Brazilian nuclear business , Bonn 1976.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Kunath: Despite Fukushima - trust in nuclear power . In: Brazil News 153 , Environment section.
  8. ↑ Get off at home, support abroad . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 31, 2011.
  9. ↑ Gert Eisenbürger: Nuclear death is not exported! Campaign against Hermes guarantees for German-Brazilian nuclear business . In: ila (Journal of the Latin America Information Center ) 350, Bonn 2011, p. 6.