Dani Morera Trettin

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Dani Morera Trettin

With roots in the Canary Islands, my journalism career spans five countries and fluency in eight languages.

I excel in human-centered and investigative reporting, covering topics such as financial fraud, transnational migration, and human rights abuses.

A Columbia Journalism School graduate and Overseas Press Club Foundation Award winner, I was a Fellow at Reuters São Paulo. Now, I'm advancing my Spanish-language reporting as a Grupo Clarín Fellow in Buenos Aires.

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Gay Brazilians targeted in deadly stickups, lured by dating apps

It was June 12, Lover's Day in Brazil. Leo Nunes, 24, had spent a few days talking to someone he met on Hornet, a popular gay dating app, before arranging their first encounter in Sao Paulo's middle-class Sacoma neighborhood.
A security camera captured the moment that two men on a motorcycle showed up in the alley where he was waiting, grabbed his phone and shot him dead.
The Nunes family, who shared details of the investigation with Reuters, said one suspect had been arrested. Sao Paulo police said they are investigating the shooting as a robbery resulting in a homicide, but did not provide further information or confirm if there had been an arrest.
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Gymnastics-Hundreds of girls in Brazil join gymnastics classes inspired by Olympic champion Andrade

In a Sao Paulo suburb, where Brazilian gymnast Rebeca Andrade started to train before becoming the country's most decorated Olympian in history, hundreds of new students dream to follow in her footsteps.
The 425 spots at the local gymnastics centre made available were filled in fewer than 48 hours – the quickest that has ever happened.
Andrade clinched the last gymnastics gold medal at the Paris Olympics on Monday, and captivated the minds and hearts of soccer-obsessed Brazil.
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Sharks off Rio de Janeiro test positive for cocaine

Sharks off the coast of Brazil's party city Rio de Janeiro have tested positive for cocaine.
The predators were consuming the potent stimulant due to its continuous release from inadequate sewage treatment facilities and clandestine refining operations, scientists wrote in a study, opens new tab published in Science of The Total Environment.
Some may also have attacked bricks of cocaine which traffickers had lost at sea off the coast of Brazil, one of the world's largest markets for the drug.
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Visitors uncover Black Brazilian past of Sao Paulo's Japanese neighborhood

São Paulo's Liberdade neighborhood, home to the largest Japanese community outside Japan, is renowned for its Asian-style architecture, restaurants and public lighting resembling paper lanterns.
Thousands of tourists enjoy the area's cuisine and culture, often unaware of the neighborhood's Black history.
The name "Liberdade" (liberty in English) has been linked to the story of Chaguinhas, a formerly enslaved Black soldier who was sentenced to death in 1821 after he led a protest for better wages, prompting spectators to the execution to call for his "liberty."
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Brazilian aims for Olympic gold in women's lightweight

Beatriz Ferreira's journey in boxing began in her family's garage at the age of four.
Now, 27 years after first picking up the gloves, the Brazilian, daughter of twice Brazil boxing champion Raimundo Oliveira Ferreira, is the favourite to win gold at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in the lightweight category.
Growing up in a poor neighbourhood of Salvador in the northern Brazilian state of Bahia, her father transformed their garage into a makeshift gym.
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Brazil's Pantanal wetlands face worst fires

Fatima Brandao goes looking for her chickens in the backyard amidst a veil of smoke from the spreading fires that are engulfing the world's largest tropical wetland faster than ever before.

"There never used to be smoke here. The sun shone clearly and the sky was always blue. Now the whole hill is on fire and smoke has clouded the entire area," she said.

The Pantanal wetlands in central-western Brazil are home to a wide variety of animals, including jaguars
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Fires in Brazil wetlands surge to record start in 2024

As Jose Cleiton and Brandao Amilton ride their horses into the vastness of the Pantanal grassy wetlands of Brazil, a wall of smoke towers from the horizon far into the sky above.

The worst of the dry season is still far off, but already these Brazilian wetlands are so dry that wildfires are surging.

The number of Pantanal fires so far this year has jumped tenfold from the same period last year according to Brazil's National Institute of Space Research (INPE
Reuters •

Fires ravage Brazil wetlands, incinerating snakes and monkeys

The scorched carcasses of monkeys, snakes and caimans dot the charred expanses of the once-green Brazilian Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetlands.

As night falls, an amber tower of smoke lights the sky. There is no rest for the fire or the animals trying to flee.

"The fire is on a very large scale, there is no time for them to escape," said Delcio Rodrigues, head of the ClimaInfo Institute. "Sometimes they don't even have anywhere to escape."
DutchNews.nl •

In court and at home: students struggle with soaring energy prices

This week Dutch students union LSvB will be in court in a case against Vijfheerenlanden town council, as part of its efforts to win extra cash for students struggling to pay their energy bills.

The case is one of 55 which the union is monitoring nationwide, following the cabinet’s decision to exclude students from the €1,300 energy allowance payable to people with low incomes – a move which has spurred a long legal battle.

Spring may be here, but many students are still struggling to pay their