Tag: Pará
Amazon Residents Accuse US Cargill of Threatening Their Rights and Way of Life
For centuries, riverside communities, including the “quilombola” descendants of enslaved Africans who escaped from ...
Two Studies Show Açaí Juice Is One of Main Causes of Chagas Disease in Brazil
Artisan juice made with açaí, the fruit of a palm that grows in the ...
More than 40 Lives Lost After Two Boats Sink in Brazil
Two separate boats that capsized in Brazil have led to the deaths of at ...
Thirteen Policemen Involved in Massacre of 10 Peasants Are Arrested in Brazil
Thirteen police officers have been detained for allegedly participating in a recent massacre that ...
Brazil’s People and Environment Pay Dearly for the Country’s Energy-hungry Mining Projects
In the late 1970s, Raimunda Gomes da Silva and her husband, João Pereira da ...
Eviction in Brazil Ends Up in the Massacre by Police of Ten People
Ten campesinos (nine men and one woman) were killed by Brazil’s military and civilian ...
Agribusiness Lobby Strips Brazil of a Puerto Rico of Conservation Areas
With Brazil in political turmoil, the bancada ruralista agribusiness lobby that dominates Congress has ...
For Many Brazilians the Dream of Prosperity in the Amazon Ends Up in Slavery
The dictionary definition of a settler, “one who emigrates to populate and/or exploit a ...
Defying Loggers, Brazil’s Amazon People Create Exemplary Green Communities
Established 18 years ago in a location that stretches over the municipalities of Santarém ...
Brazil’s Small Fish Farmers Have Big Plans for the Arapaima
Brazilian small fish farmers from the Pará state are preparing to increase production of ...
