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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Jimin Kang and Amanda Perobelli

Black Brazilians in remote 'quilombo' hamlets stand up to be counted

Brazil Amanda Perobelli Jair Bolsonaro Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Marielle Franco
Eliete Paraguassu, 42, who is the first candidate from Ilha de Mare to run for state deputy in Bahia, travels by boat with her friends and family from Ilha de Mare to the mainland, in Salvador, Bahia State, Brazil August 21, 2022. Paraguassu is one of the record number of Black candidates running for state and federal office in October 2022 elections. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli

For the first time in its 132-year history, the Brazilian census now underway includes a question counting members of the "quilombo" communities founded by runaway slaves.

On Ilha de Mare, an island with several quilombos off the coast of Salvador, in northeast Brazil, this chance to be counted is one step in a political transformation for which local organizers have long been fighting.

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