What’s Driving the Violence Against Latin American Environmentalists?
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It was three days before Christmas in 1988. Much of the world—following a blisteringly hot summer—had really begun to worry about rising global temperatures. That night, #Chico_Mendes stepped outside of his cottage in Xapuri, #Brazil only to drop dead moments later. Mendes, a unionist rubber tapper and environmentalist, was gunned down by a cattle […]
#LATIN_AMERICA_IS_A_COUNTRY #Amazon #Amazonas #climate_change #Edwin_Chota #Indigeneity #Indigenous #Peru