Tag: Jair Bolsonaro

Killing the Messengers: Rising Violence Against Journalists and Indigenous Leaders Defending the Amazon

Jan 25, 2020

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In February 2005, the body of 73-year-old Sister Dorothy Stang was found on the side of a remote dirt road 33 miles from Anapu, Pará, in Brazil’s AmazonBasin. Seven bullets pierced her body. The first hit her in the abdomen, then after she fell face down, the killers fired bullets to the back and four…
The War on Indigenous People is a War on the Biosphere Itself

Nov 19, 2019

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fitzdon

“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”– E.O. Wilson “Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.”–Cree Proverb
Uruguay and the Threat Posed by Neoliberalism

Oct 19, 2019

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fitzdon

As several nations in South America are going through their worst economic-political-institutional crises, Uruguay —which has survived the neoliberal wave in the region— is going to face elections on October 27 that might change a system that has been benefiting most of its population.