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By João Márcio (Marabá, Pará)
After an overnight vigil, peasant movements, students, teachers from the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) and settled...
Agroextractivist José Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife Maria do Espírito Santo were murdered on May...
The Chamber of Deputies decided today that Brazil should not be the country of the future. By 410 votes to only 63, federal deputies approved changes to the Brazilian Forest Code that are set to compromise the country's biodiversity as well as the sustainability of Brazilian agriculture. “Brazil...
With the vote on reform of Brazil's Forest Code set for this Tuesday (24), fifteen hundred activists from civil society organizations marched this morning on the Ministries...
By Fátima Lessa
Senator Kátia Abreu (Social Democratic Party, Tocantins), president of the Brazilian Confederation...
The contamination of the Pardo River, in the interior of SP, agricultural pesticides can cripple their drinking water due to the costs of 
constructing a water treatment plant that would eliminate these...
The Kaiowá Guarani indigenous group retook part of their traditional lands last Friday (13). They occupied a small section of the Laranjeira Nhanderu area in Rio Brilhante (...
by Cliff Welch
[Ed. Note: This article is from NACLA Report on the Americas...
by Mariana Duque
On 10 May 1986, another fighter of the people fell. Josimo Morais Tavares, known as Father Josimo, was murdered by regional landowners in Imperatriz, Maranhão.
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By Maurício Hashizume
An increase in the number of killings, a high incidence of land conflicts in the Northeast region, a fall in the...