Category:The Amazon
Criminal networks spread across the Amazon
U.S. military response may increase violence, experts say
Topic:Traditional Peoples
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
“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.”
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
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.
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?
Dateline:ALTAMIRA, Brazil
Indigenous Women Occupy Agency to Stop Canadian Belo Sun Mine in the Amazon
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.