By Marina Rossi, Daniel Camargos* and Hyury Potter |
29/08/23
Heller declared himself owner of a portion of land in the Amazon corresponding to about 70% of Belo Horizonte (Credit: Incra / Reproduction) Rancher Bruno Heller, arrested at the beginning of the month and identified by the Brazilian Federal Police as the...
Por Repórter Brasil |
08/08/23
Three people from the Tembé Indigenous People were shot on Monday (07) in the latest chapter of a violent land conflict that began three years ago in northeastern Pará, when the Brasil BioFuels (BBF) group started its palm oil production in the region. The company...
Por Daniel Camargos* |
13/04/21
When Jair Bolsonaro took office as president of Brazil at the start of 2019, he ushered in a climate of hostility toward rural activists — Indigenous peoples, environmentalists, advocates for landless workers’ rights, and communities subsisting off the sustainable...
By Mariana Della Barba and Diego Toledo |
15/10/20
Foreign missionaries working in Brazil are targeting isolated people living in the Amazon Region (Photo: Gleilson Miranda/Government of Acre) “God allow them to find their lost children,” says one of the websites of foreign missionary groups that work to...
By Maurício Hashizume |
08/10/20
In mid-August, Kayapó indigenous people took yellow posters not only to the middle of the federal road known as BR-163 but also to the world’s headlines. Taking extra risks because of Covid-19, they left their villages and occupied the road that connects Cuiabá, in...
