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Category:The Amazon
On Sunday, a higher court overturned a Friday judicial order to “unblock” areas where Indigenous groups are blocking access to U.S. grain giant Cargill’s port facility in Santarém in the Brazilian Amazon. Protesters want to halt Brazil’s plans to dredge and privatize the Tapajós River.
Category:The Amazon
WATCH: I interviewed Tupinambá Chief Gilson Tupinambá, who criticizes Cargill’s alleged role in driving plans to dredge and privatize the Tapajós River and defends the protests as a legitimate response to alleged violations of Indigenous and constitutional rights.
Category:The Amazon
A judge on Friday ordered the removal, within 48 hours, of Indigenous protesters who for 3 weeks have vowed to stay in the grain loading area of US co. Cargill until plans to dredge and privatize the river are overturned. On the ground reporting
Category:The Amazon
EXCLUSIVE: Shaman Nato of the Tupinimbá Indigenous people explains why, for 3 weeks, Indigenous protesters have blocked the port of U.S. grains giant Cargill in the Amazon. They say they won't leave until President Lula revokes a decree privatizing three Amazonian rivers.
Category:The Amazon
Since Jan. 22, Indigenous protesters have occupied Cargill’s port in Santarém, Brazil, blocking soy exports in protest over a government plan to dredge the Tapajós River without consultation or environmental licensing.
Category:Arts of the Amazon
Carnival is coming. I’ve been following Bole Bole Samba School through rehearsals in Belém, Brazilian Amazon. Three-time champions—can they get a fourth? In Guamá, I ducked out of my spot to film the different groups. Tell me your favorite.
Category:The Amazon
Brazil has licensed explosions of the Lourenção Rocks, a vital Amazon fishery and biodiversity refuge, as part of plans to open the Tocantins River to agribusiness shipping. Riverfolk who depend on the area say their rights were violated and they were never consulted.
Category:Venezuela
The Warao Indigenous people of Venezuela have migrated en masse due to pollution of their lands in the Orinoco Delta. Now the Orinoco Oil Belt is in the sights of U.S. oil development ambitions — and the Warao could be impacted again, experts say. Includes a video interview.
Category:Venezuela
For a behind-the-scenes analysis of U.S. strikes on Venezuela on January 3 – and what might come next there and in Latin America – I interviewed Thiago Rodrigues, Associate Professor in the Institute of Strategic Studies in the Fluminense Federal University in Rio de Janeiro
Category:The Amazon
AUDIO: A quick note from a reporting trip to the Tocantins River, Brazilian Amazon. I visited Tauiry Village, where Brazil's govt. plans to install a construction site to blow up the rocky riverbed for 3 years. The traditional riverfolk who live there are fighting it.
Category:Brazil
In Belém, I talked with teacher Israel Esteban, 29, who was protesting a new bill that would reduce Bolsonaro’s prison term. We chatted about democracy, militarism, and the US military buildup near Venezuela.
Category:Climate
WATCH: Indigenous peoples say the mine, layered on top of the impacts of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam, puts their territories and food security at risk.
Category:Climate
Trump's trade war and US “climate bullying” have frayed international cooperation and weakened the COP30 final accords, climate expert Claudio Angelo told me in this interview in Belém just after COP30 ended. We discuss the COP consensus rule, hopeful developments and his take on Prince William.
Category:Climate
Shaman Nato Tupinambá, of the of the Amazon's Indigenous Tupinambá people, evaluates COP30. For him, the real COP was in the Peoples' Summit, which among other things, called on leaders to implement zero deforestation strategies and end criminal rainforest fires.
Category:Climate