‘Divide and conquer’ – Belo Sun’s tactics cause consternation along Xingu river
By Hyury Potter (text) and João Laet (photos), Altamira
The Canadian gold mining company is accused of stirring up communal strife and other irregularities in an area already impacted by Belo Monte
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Vale usurps 24,000 hectares of public lands in the Amazon
By Sílvia Lisboa (text)* and João Laet (photos), Canaã dos Carajás, Pará
With the agrarian reform agency’s failure to act, a Brazilian multinational, that irregularly bought federal lands a few years ago, is now pressuring landless rural workers and striving to demobilize social movements in southeast Pará. Reporting done in partnership between King’s College London and SUMAÚMA
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Norwegian and French companies turn Barcarena into a city of environmental disasters
Helena Palmquist and Catarina Barbosa, Barcarena/Pará
The Amazonian municipality has had nearly 30 accidents in two decades, 16 of them connected to Norway's Norsk Hydro and France's Imerys, and residents fear contamination from heavy metals and a 636% spike in cancer cases from 2000 to 2022
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Cargill wants to expand its destruction in the Amazon
Isabel Harai (text) e Alessandro Falco (photos), Abaetetuba/Pará
Despite failing to meet legal requirements, the U.S.-based corporation operates two ports exporting soy from Pará. Now it wants to build a third. Though the project has not yet left the drawing board, the Public Prosecutor’s Office suspects the proposed site around the Abaetetuba islands was irregularly acquired
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