Blockades, checkpoints and court action: fending off Brazil’s biofuel giants in the Amazon
By Gisela Pérez de Acha, Sasha Schell, Cícero Pedrosa in Acará, Pará, with Luiz Monticelli and Kathleen Quinn
After decades of violent displacement and land theft, the country’s quilombola communities are fighting back
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