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Brazil: top indigenous official resigns
Indigenous protests heat up as another Terena protester is shot while trying to occupy lands the Terena say are their territory; tensions continue over the Monte Belo Dam.
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Brazil: indigenous protester killed in land dispute
Indigenous people occupy estates and a giant dam’s construction site to press demands for land and rights—just as a report resurfaces on atrocities from the past.
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Brazil: 30,000 people displaced for sports events
Rio relocates thousands for the World Cup and the Olympics; activists and social scientists say the city’s just trying to push poorer residents off valuable real estate.
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Brazil: protesters suspend Belo Monte occupation
Activists have ended their most recent occupation of what is to be the world’s third-largest dam, while the center-left government tries to downplay the protests.
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Protesters again block construction at Belo Monte
Police removed journalists from a construction site at a giant dam as they tried to cover the site’s latest occupation by indigenous people opposing the project.
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Brazil: indigenous people occupy Congress
Some 700 indigenous representatives occupied Brazil’s lower-house Chamber of Deupites in a final effort to stop attempts to change the law concerning their territorial rights.
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Brazil: human trafficking crackdown in Amazon
The Brazilian state of Acre declared a state of “social emergency” in response to a surge of undocumented migrants from neighboring Bolivia and Peru.
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Brazil: Awá tribe’s desperate call to evict loggers
An Amazonian indigenous group said to be the Earth’s most threatened tribe has sent an urgent appeal to Brazil’s government to evict invaders from their forest homeland.
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Brazil: protesters briefly reoccupy Belo Monte dam
Area residents carried out the fifth occupation in less than a year at a construction site for the $13 billion Belo Monte dam to protest environmental damage.
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Argentina: provincial court blocks Monsanto facility
Monsanto encounters resistance in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, where environmentalists and residents have at least temporarily blocked construction of a plant.
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Brazil: Amazon peoples declare against hydro
The Munduruku indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon charge that the government is militarizing their lands to quell opposition to mega-scale hydroelectric projects.
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Brazil: landless leader assassinated
Cícero Guedes dos Santos, a leader of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) who led an occupation of unused property in Rio de Janeiro state, was shot dead by unknown gunmen.