Wies Ubags

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Wies Ubags

Wies Ubags is a journalist based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She mainly writes for newspapers and magazins in her home country The Netherlands, but also publishes in English.
Topics she knows a lot about: Colombia's conflict and peace processes with leftist guerrillas and rightist paramilitaries, Venezuela's political and economic crisis and Brazil's political and economic crisis.
Other topics: black consciousness. Wies did a crowdfunding project 'Black Power in Rio' in the Netherlands (https://www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/5056-black-power-in-rio-1) and women in Latin America. 
Wies is also available for radio interviews and for fixer work for audiovisual media.

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First article in the series Black Power in Rio, about slavery in Brazil, published on May 23rd 2017

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This institute in the Netherlands researches and publishes about sports. Their latest publication will be a book about the Olympics in Rio, 2016. I wrote the chapter about politics and economy in Brazil. The book will be published this summer.

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http://contributoria.com/issue/2015-09/559450b3e4101b402c00003e.html

This is an article in English about the increasing influence of evangelical churches in Brazil. I wrote it for the English website Contributoria, related to the Guardian, that stopped its activities shortly afterwards, unfortunately. I wrote three articles for Contributoria in 2015.

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This is the second article in the series Black Power in Rio. The first one is also in this list of written work.

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