Dispatches from the Field: Amazonas, Brazil
Dispatches from the Field: Amazonas, Brazil
The life-and-death struggle of Indigenous Tenharim to preserve their land and their resources.
A lot of people would like to know how Ivan Tenharim died. On the afternoon of December 2, 2013, a relative found the chief of the Tenharim people in Brazil’s Amazonas state lying unconscious near his undamaged motorcycle on a long, uninhabited stretch of the Trans-Amazonian Highway.
His neck was broken, and blood was trickling from his ears, nose and mouth.
The 45-year-old leader was a careful driver. The weather was good, and traffic, as usual, had been sparse.1 He had been on his way home after shopping in Santo Antônio do Matupi, a settlement that has been at...
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