US EditionBrazil to Revoke Waterway Decree After Indigenous Protesters Occupied Cargill Port
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The measure established the Tapajós, Tocantins and Madeira rivers as priority axes for the transport of goods.
Brazil has decided to revoke a decree that would have expanded Amazonian waterways in a federal privatization program, a government official said on Monday, a move that follows the occupation of a Cargill port facility on the Tapajos river by Indigenous protesters.
For thirty-three days, nearly a thousand people had been camping outside the Cargill warehouse, one of the world's largest agribusiness companies. In Santarém, in northeastern Brazil, Indigenous activists have finally won their fight against the privatization of the Amazon's rivers. A "death decree" On February 23, the Brazilian government repealed the decree that paved the way for the concession of more than 3,000 km of waterways, including th…
Amidst fireworks, shouts and tears, indigenous peoples of the Tapajós region received the news of the revocation of Decree No. 12,600/2025, last Monday (23). The demonstrators, mobilized in Santarém, in Pará, were fighting against the decree that includes federal public projects in the waterway sector in the National Privatization Program. Announced by ministers Guilherme Boulos, of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic, and …
The federal government announced this Monday (23) the revocation of Decree No. 12,600/2025, a measure that had been contested by indigenous peoples in the Tapajós River region. For more than a month, leaders had been occupying the port of the multinational Cargill, in Santarém, in the west of the state of Pará. The decision was announced on social media by the Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency, Guilherme Boulos. According to …
Indigenous Resistance Forces Brazil To Revoke Amazon Waterway Decree After 33 Days of Occupation
“This proves that life – the river – has no price. It cannot be sold, it is not negotiable. That’s why we will never back down.” The post Indigenous Resistance Forces Brazil To Revoke Amazon Waterway Decree After 33 Days of Occupation first appeared on Amazon Watch.
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