Brazil Material Conflict Share of News Events (GDELT, Weekly)

## What this measures

Of all the news events that GDELT located in Brazil in a week, the share that are material conflict: CAMEO QuadClass 4, which covers force, coercion, assaults, fighting, blockades, seizures and sanctions. Each event is weighted by the number of articles that reported it. Weeks run Monday to Sunday by the day GDELT ingested the events, and each value is dated to the Sunday.

## Why it matters

Brazil is Latin America's largest economy and a major mining and farm exporter. The share tracks police and gang violence, land conflicts and illegal mining in the Amazon.

## How to read it

Higher means a larger part of the news coming out of Brazil is about conflict rather than talks, statements or cooperation. Brazil has 1,700 to 4,200 located events in most weeks, so its weekly reading is steadier than smaller countries'. A single widely reported incident can move one week, so read a four-week average and compare with the country's own history.

## What it does not say

It is a share of news coverage, machine-coded, not a count of incidents or casualties. Events are placed by GDELT's geocoder, which can mislocate a story. It says nothing about who is involved or why. Weeks with fewer than 50 located events are left blank.

## Source

The GDELT Project, daily event export (data.gdeltproject.org/events), field ActionGeo_CountryCode = BR (FIPS 10-4). GDELT permits unrestricted commercial use and redistribution with citation: The GDELT Project, gdeltproject.org. Palanor sums the article weights of a Monday–Sunday week and computes the share; synced daily by /api/cron/gdelt-events-sync. Same definition as the world series gdelt_material_conflict_share, restricted to events located in the country.