by Cleber Lourenço | Nov 5, 2026 | brazil, elections, Flavio Bolsonaro, JD Vance, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Meta, minerals, News, Polymarket, rare earth minerals, Social Media
On Tuesday, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Flávio Dino ordered the Federal Police to investigate suspected foreign financing of Flávio Bolsonaro’s presidential campaign. Bolsonaro lost to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the runoff. The investigation will also need to determine whether any connection exists between political support for the senator and foreign interests in Brazil’s rare earth and…
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by Tamara Pearson | Apr 18, 2026 | disappearances, disappearances in Mexico, Environment, Extractivism, Indigenous communities, Indigenous Resistance, mexico, Militarization, minerals, Mining, News, Resistance, tech industry, Water, weapons, Weapons industry
The U.S. and Mexico have established a mining agreement which has Indigenous and other residents of the Sierra Norte mountains, as well as activists around Mexico, worried. Announced on February 4, the U.S.-Mexico Action Plan on Critical Minerals aims to guarantee the U.S.’s supply of minerals for its arms industry, technology like data centers and smartphones, and the so-called energy…
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