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POLITICS● LOWSep 12 · Sep 12, 2026, 2:52 AM

Internet access brings Brazil's Amazonian peoples into the presidential campaign: 'It shows politicians what's happening here!'

Le Monde [en] · south america

Thanks to Starlink antennas installed by a coalition of local organizations, thousands of isolated villages in the Amazon have internet access for the first time – and with it, political information that was previously out of reach, just ahead of the October 4 election.

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Internet access brings Brazil's Amazonian peoples into the presidential campaign: 'It shows politicians what's happening here!' · GlobeAlert