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Brazil revokes decree privatizing three Amazonian rivers after Indigenous protests
Brazil has revoked a presidential decree that placed sections of three Amazonian rivers — the Tapajós, Madeira and Tocantins — under a state-led privatization program. Indigenous groups had protested the plan for 33 days by blockading a Cargill grain port in Santarém in the western Brazilian Amazon. The decree was a part of a larger infrastructure initiative to create an industrial export route for freight barges carrying soy, corn and other gra…
The indigenous protesters who occupied Cargill's port terminal in Santarém, in Pará, left the place after the federal government broke the Decree in 12600, which included the hydroviations of the Madeira, Tocantins and Tapajós rivers in the National Programme of Destation (PND). According to the company, traffic access to the terminal had been blocked for about 30 days. In a note published on this Thursday (26), Cargill reported that it is conce…
Gathered in a large circle, dozens of people performed a preparatory ritual in the late afternoon of Monday, February 23rd. With the enormous silos of soy and corn in the background and the clock ticking against the deadline given by the court for them to vacate the area surrounding a Cargill port terminal, they prepared for a possible confrontation with police forces. In the crowd, someone shouted for them to check WhatsApp. In a few seconds, a…
What happened in the Amazon this last month represents a clear and forceful triumph of humanity that resists, does not surrender and does not sell. Fourteen towns that inhabit the banks of the Tapajós River managed to reverse the decision of the Brazilian government of Lula, which privatized three important water streams: Tocantins, Madera and Tapajós. After 33 days of massive camping in front of the facilities of the multinational Cargill, in S…
The lawyer of the Cargill farm in Brazil, Sandra Silva, said this Thursday, 25 that the company remained “uneven and alone” in the case of the indigenous invasions of its assets in Santarém (PA). The statement was made during a meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Front of Logistics and Infrastructure (Frenlogi) in Brazil. “The feeling is frustration”, she said. According to the lawyer, even after the government suspending the decree on hydrovia, …
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