US EditionIndigenous protesters occupy Cargill's Santarem port terminal in Brazil
- Indigenous protesters occupied Cargill's Santarem river port terminal in Para state, Brazil, fully interrupting operations and forcing employee evacuation.
- Cargill shipped over 5.5 million metric tons of soybeans and corn through Santarem last year, representing more than 70% of the total grain volume handled there.
- The occupation escalated tensions over proposed dredging of rivers like the Tapajos, with protesters expressing concerns over water quality and fishing vital to their communities.
- Protesters demanded that Brazil's government reconsider a decree permitting Amazon river dredging, emphasizing the rivers' importance for life and identity.
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Indigenous protest in the Amazon forces Brazil’s Lula to revoke waterway decree
SAO PAULO (AP) — The Brazilian government said Monday it would revoke a decree signed by leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva that allowed private concessions for waterways, following 33 days of protests by thousands of Indigenous people at…
More than 30 days ago, indigenous enthusiasts kept their occupation in the terminal of Cargill Agricola, in Santarém (PA), which moves millions of tons of soya and honey
The Brazilian government announced Monday the repeal of a decree that provided for the expansion of ports in Amazonian rivers for the transportation of grains, after weeks of indigenous protests, including the occupation of a Cargill terminal.
In the river port of Santarém, in the heart of the Amazon, about 100 indigenous demonstrators have been occupying the Cargill terminal, an American agro-industry giant, since Saturday 22 February. It has been weeks since they camped in front of the multinational building. They are calling for the repeal of a decree, signed last year by Lula, which makes the main Amazonian rivers the priority for the transport of cereals. With heavy consequences …
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