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In the third edition of Maré Atualidades, our current affairs publication, we bring you two articles covering pertinent topics: "Escalation, Illegality, and the Erosion of International Law: the United States Attack on Venezuela Territory," by Pietro Daniel Maia da Silva ; and "The New Geographies of South American Integration: Analyses of the Bioceanic Route," by Paulo Ricardo Almeida da Silva and Mateus Degasperi Ieker. The authors are solely responsible for the content of these articles....

In this article, researcher Larah Victória dos Santos draws on her lived experience and observations of food practices in a Candomblé terreiro in Cachoeiras de Macacu, a municipality in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Through her analysis of food traditions and health‑maintenance practices within Afro‑Brazilian communities, combined with a close reading of the works of José Flávio Pessoa de Barros (in memoriam)—babalorixá, teacher, anthropologist, and writer—she recovers knowledge and practices...

In this second edition of our new current affairs publication, Maré Atualidades, our research team brings you three critical articles over recent developments in Brazil: "The new geopolitics of clean energy: the energy transition as a field of diplomatic power," by Carla Nazaré Reis dos Santos Dias ; "COP30 and the construction of the future we want," by Ana Luiza Luz and Isadora Martins Zuffo ; and "Biopolitics and necropolitics: the governance of extermination in Rio de Janeiro's favelas,"...