Palestine
Latin America protests attack on Gaza
The Mercosur trade bloc expressed “strongest condemnation of the violence unleashed between Israel and Palestine,” while Cuba and Venezuela issued stronger statements.
Tag: Brazil
Southern Cone
Brazil: crime wars rock Sao Paulo
Brazilian police launched "Operation Saturation" to crush the Sao Paolo criminal network known as the First Capital Command (PCC), flooding the favelas with paramilitary troops.
The Amazon
Brazil: Amazon native killed by federal police
A Munduruku indigenous man was killed in a gunfight with Brazilian federal police at a remote Amazonian settlement, in a conflict over outlaw gold-mining in the area.
The Amazon
Brazil: violence halts work at Belo Monte dam
Work on Brazil’s controversial $13 billion Belo Monte hydro-dam has been at a halt since workers torched buildings at three work sites in a wage dispute.
The Amazon
Brazil: Guarani threaten mass suicide?
A Guarani-Kaiowa tribe in Mato Grosso do Sul say their eviction from ancestral lands following a court order obtained by a rancher will mean their “collective death.”
The Amazon
OAS rights body presses for truth in Yanomami massacre claims
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights urged Venezuelan authorities “to conduct a thorough investigation” into claims of a massacre at a remote Yanomami setlement.
The Amazon
Venezuelan authorities deny Yanomami massacre
Venezuelan officials investigating the reported massacre of an isolated Yanomami community say they found no evidence of the attack—a claim dismissed by indigenous advocates.
Southern Cone
Brazil: judge agrees to first war crimes trial for members of dictatorship
A Brazilian federal judge in Pará agreed to conduct the first trial against members of the former dictatorship for war crimes during the military’s rule from 1964-1985.
The Amazon
Brazil: quilombo threatened by rancher gunmen
Rights groups warn that the Afro-descendant Quilombo Pontes community in Brazil’s lawless Maranhão state is being “systematically threatened” by gunmen in the pay of local ranchers.
The Amazon
Venezuela: Yanomami massacred by outlaw miners
Venezuelan authorities pledge to investigate breaking reports that outlaw miners comitted a “massacre” of an isolated Yanomami indigenous community on the Brazilian border.
Southern Cone
Brazil: court blocks mega-hydro to protect Pantanal
A Brazilian judge ruled that permits for more than 120 proposed hydro-electric dams in the Upper Paraguay River Basin cannot be issued without impact assessments.
The Amazon
Brazil: high court orders release of rancher convicted in Dorothy Stang slaying
Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered the release of Amazon rancher Regivaldo Galvão, convicted in the 2005 killing of US nun and rainforest activist Dorothy Stang.