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2 months ago | 
brasildefato.com.br | Carolina Bataier |Ana Rocha
A rural worker was found dead on Wednesday (29) in the town of Labrea, Amazonas state, northern Brazil. Nicknamed Jacozinho, José Jacó Cosotle, 55, left his house last Sunday morning (26) to pick up chestnuts, but didn't return home. He was a resident of the Marielle Franco encampment. His body was found next to a motorcycle with a gunshot wound to the chin. The case is under investigation.
On January 14, another worker was killed in the region.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
brasildefato.com.br | Carolina Bataier
On Wednesday morning (22), in the wake of ongoing education protests, representatives of the Pará government met with Indigenous leaders to propose an agreement on school teaching changes in communities. However, protesters occupying the Pará State Education Secretariat (SEDUC) building claim their voices remain unheard, choosing to continue their occupation.
“This group [that took part in the meeting with the government] doesn't represent all the Indigenous peoples here.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
brasildefato.com.br | Carolina Bataier
With the extreme drought that affected Brazil in 2024, fires increased by 79% compared to 2023. Last year, fires consumed more than 30.8 million hectares, an area equivalent to the size of Italy, according to data released by MapBiomas' Fire Monitor platform (the first version of the monthly mapping of fire scars for the country).
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
brasildefato.com.br | Carolina Bataier
Cuba, Bolivia, and seven other countries are now part of BRICS. Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which currently chairs the group, announced the news on Friday (17). With the addition of these new members, the diplomatic grouping now includes the following partner countries: Belarus, Bolivia, Kazakhstan, Cuba, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Uganda, and Uzbekistan.
The partner country category was created at the 16th BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, in October 2024.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
brasildefato.com.br | Carolina Bataier |Ana Rocha
In the afternoons, a group of monkeys can be seen on the highest branches of mango trees surrounding the house where farmers José Aldenor da Silva Pedroso and Expedita de Souza Lima live. It is located in the rural community of Chaves, in Mojuí dos Campos, in the western region of the state of Pará, about 30 kilometers from Santarém, also in Pará.
“They're there almost every day. They've got used to us,” says the farmer. He believes that animals go there searching for food.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
brasildefato.com.br | Carolina Bataier |Ana Rocha
At a meeting on Wednesday afternoon (4) at the Planalto Palace, Brasilia, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed the recognition of three Indigenous lands: the Potiguara of Monte-Mor Indigenous Land in Paraíba and the Morro dos Cavalos and Toldo Imbu Indigenous Land in Santa Catarina.
“It's been so many years of waiting and fighting, so many years of persecution and crying. But today, our cry is one of joy,” celebrates Kerexu Yxapyry, an Indigenous leader from Morro dos Cavalos.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
brasildefato.com.br | Carolina Bataier |Ana Rocha
Indigenous leaders and organizations held a demonstration at COP29 in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, to denounce the impacts of the Ferrogrão railroad and other infrastructure projects in the Amazon. Held on Thursday (21), the protest happened in the event's Blue Zone, the pavilion where the official negotiations, working group meetings and plenary sessions of the climate conference take place. In this area, country representatives meet to discuss and negotiate agreements and make decisions.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
brasildefato.com.br | Carolina Bataier
After five years of constant increases, the Cerrado [Brazilian Savannah] deforestation droped between August 2023 and July 2024, with 8,173 km² of the biome being devastated, compared to 11,000 km² in the previous period. This represents a 25% reduction.
The data comes from the Project for Monitoring Deforestation in the Legal Amazon by Satellite (PRODES, in Portuguese), which also indicates a reduction in deforestation in the Amazon rainforest since 2023.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
brasildefato.com.br | Carolina Bataier
At the beginning of September, fire threatened the school in Moxkarakô village, within the Kayapó Indigenous Land in the Pará Amazon. 'The view was devastating because we couldn't see the other houses,' says teacher Maria Nizan, who lives in São Félix do Xingu, Pará state, and spends seasons in the village teaching Indigenous children. She was there when the flames reached the houses. 'I couldn't see the sky because of the smoke,' she recalls.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
brasildefatorj.com.br | Carolina Bataier |Ana Rocha
“We're going to die here, but we're not going to go back,” says an Indigenous leader who will not be identified for security reasons, after yet another attack on the Yvyju Avary community of the Avá-Guarani Indigenous people, between the municipalities of Guaíra and Terra Roxa, in western Paraná state. The area is part of Tekoha Guasu Guavira Indigenous Land.
In an attack on Thursday (23), a tractor drove over crops and sprayed pesticides near the Indigenous houses.
