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.
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.
State of the Union. US appears poised to attack Iran. Hegseth threatens Anthropic.
