Canadian mining company Belo Sun has filed a lawsuit against community leaders and environmental rights groups for invading and occupying company-owned land, in a case the defendants are calling an attempt to criminalize environmental defenders in the region. According to some lawyers and campaigners not involved in the case, the lawsuit lacks accuracy and Belo […]
Canadian mining company Belo Sun wants to build a huge gold mine in the Big Bend of the Xingu region, in Pará; project foresees the extraction of 74 tons of gold in 20 years of operation.
Residents of a landless worker’s settlement in Anapu, Pará state in Brazil’s Amazon region, accuse the Federal Government of favoring large landowners, land grabbers and corporations at the expense of poor and landless peasants.