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
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: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Lula's river privatization decree was revoked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”
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
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.”
Topic:Climate
"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.
Dateline:SANTARÉM, Brazil
Indigenous remain in Cargill port after court overturns order to remove them
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.
Dateline:SANTARÉM, Brazil
Tupinimbá chief on Cargill's role in Brazil's privatization of rivers
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.
Dateline:SANTARÉM, Brazil
Indigenous village defends a precious River
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
Why Indigenous peoples are blocking U.S. giant Cargill
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
Indigenous protests hit U.S. grain giant Cargill over river privatization
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.
Topic:Carneval
On the Road to Carnival
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
Riverfolk are defending their ancestral territory
Category:Venezuela
Indigenous Venezuelans are in the path of U.S. oil development
What will happen to them?