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
Dateline:SANTARÉM, Brazil
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