Category:The Amazon
"Lives are worth more than gold"
Belém protest targets Canadian Belo Sun mining project on the Xingu River
Tiffany Higgins
Journalist reporting from the Brazilian Amazon 🇧🇷 | Latin America. Stories from traditional communities, river journeys, and the rainforest. Follow for on-the-ground reporting and analysis.
Category:Arts of the Amazon
The mind of water
Amazonian arts unmake the mind of winter
Category:When Rocks Talk & Rivers Walk
Hands Off Our Rivers
Riverfolk demand halt to Tocantins shipping channel
Category:Latin America
Lula slams U.S. war and mineral push in Latin America
Category:When Rocks Talk & Rivers Walk
"We are the owners of the Tocantins River"
Conceição fishes the Lourenção Rocks. Brazil says her community won't be impacted when they explode the fishery for a channel on the Tocantins River. She blocked the Transamazonian Highway in protest.
Category:Brazil
Trump envoy’s visa revoked by Brazil
Category:Brazil
“A target on Brazil’s back”
U.S. terror label on gangs sparks alarm
Category:Brazil
Brazilian gangs are "regional security threats," says U.S.
The U.S. is reportedly planning to designate Brazilian criminal organizations as terrorist organizations. The prospect has sparked alarm in Brazil this week, with fears of U.S. interference in the country’s politics ahead of the presidential election.
Category:The Amazon
Fishing season is about to open on the Tocantins River
Cametá is busy, in Pará state in the Brazilian Amazon, as everyone anticipates the opening of the fishing season
Category:The Amazon
Fishery explosion license stands, despite Indigenous victory
The explosion of a key Tocantins River fishery is planned for March, to begin a shipping channel, despite Lula’s river privatization decree being revoked on Feb. 24. In Cametá on Feb. 26, I interviewed geography professor Edir Dias, of the Federal University of Pará.
Category:The Amazon
Lula's river privatization decree was revoked
LISTEN: People react with joy as decree privatizing three Amazonian rives revoked
Category:The Amazon
Lula’s river privatization decree revoked after Cargill offices occupied
Brazil revoked Lula’s river privatization decree after Indigenous protesters occupied Cargill facilities in Santarém and escalated pressure ahead of negotiations, averting a looming police eviction and delivering a major win for river communities.
Category:The Amazon
“We aren’t leaving”
On Friday, authorities gave a 48-hour deadline to “unblock” access roads to a Cargill grain port in Santarém and remove more than 1,000 Indigenous protesters camped outside. Prosecutors challenged the order, and protesters vow not to retreat until a decree affecting their rivers is revoked.
Category:The Amazon
Indigenous board ship near Cargill port; police respond
On Feb. 19, Indigenous protesters boarded a ship near Cargill’s grain port in Santarém, hanging banners saying “The Tapajós River isn’t merchandise” and demanding repeal of a decree privatizing three Amazon rivers. Police ordered them to leave what they called an “area of international security.”
Category:The Amazon
"Shipping channels will cause deforestation."
Auricelia Arapiuns says “a series of destructive projects” — shipping channels, railways, ports, mining — threaten traditional peoples in the Amazon. The government narrative of shipping channels reducing carbon emissions is incorrect, as they’ll cause deforestation, she says. Part 2 of interview.
Category:The Amazon
"It's killing our way of life"
Interview with Auricelia Arapiuns, one of the principal leaders in the Indigenous occupation of the entrance to the grain port of U.S. company Cargill in Santarem in the Amazon. “Since Cargill came here, we’ve never had peace,” she said.