Railroad and mine projects stir up anxiety in rural Brazil communities

Mongabay
Sep 17, 2021, 4:22 am278 pts
It happened eight years ago: Elicarlos Ferreira da Silva and his family were returning home one afternoon from the town of Caetité in Brazil’s Bahia state when they were stopped by workers from the West-East Integration Railway (FIOL) project near their home village of Serragem. There was to be another…

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