Um ensaio sobre a vida da população de Junco do Maranhão. Uma cidade onde 92% da população é sustentada pelo programa Bolsa Família.

Suffering with the impacts of the pandemic and the economic crisis that affects the country, Brazilians are getting to the streets to beg for food. Holding signs with messages of hunger, they walk the big cities streets asking for alms.

Searching for amethyst, a semiprecious stone, miners dig tunnels through the mountains in southern Brazil. This kind of mining is known for its harmful dust. The silicon dioxide particles can trespass the filter masks causing silicosis disease. Over 50% of amethyst miners had developed the silicosis, a disease that has only one cure: Lung transplant.

Millions of demonstrators occupied Brazil's largest cities during a week that changed the future of this country. Fighting for better public services and political changes, these people are finally being heard.

Samba dancers in Rio de Janeiro's 2011 Carnival, at Marquês de Sapucaí avenue.

AN ASSIGNMENT FOR NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG: Mr. Jaguaracy San-Just and his wife, Mrs Maria de Lourdes, and their carpentry shop - a typical Brazilian little company. Photo: Caio Guatelli , in assignment for Neue Zürcher Zeitung.