Brazil's indigenous protests interrupt Amazon's soy transportation

Record ID: 1988342

  • Title: Brazil's indigenous protests interrupt Amazon's soy transportation
  • Date: 4th April 2025
  • Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES (APRIL 4, 2025) (REUTERS) SENATE MINORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER, SENATE MINORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMERS, SENATOR RON WYDEN, SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR AND OTHER TOP DEMOCRATS ARRIVING FOR NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) SENATE MINORITY LEADER, CHUCK SCHUMER, SAYING: “This week, Donald Trump made one of the dumbest decisions he's ever made as
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  • Keywords: Amazon Brazil blockage indigenous people protest soy
  • Location: ITAITUBA, PARA & BRASILIA, BRAZIL
  • City: ITAITUBA, PARA & BRASILIA, BRAZIL
  • Country: Brazil
  • Topics: South America / Central America,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA002436804042025RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Indigenous protests and poor roads have disrupted shipping of Brazil's bumper soybean crop this week via the river port of Miritituba in the Amazon rainforest, where global grains traders including Cargill and Bunge BG.N have important operations.
    Protesters from the Munduruku people have been blocking a key stretch of the Transamazonian Highway near Miritituba at certain hours of the day to pressure Brazil's Supreme Court to overturn a 2023 law aimed at limiting their land rights.
    Demonstrators have said the protest reflects fears among native peoples about losing their lands to an advancing farm frontier.
    That has worsened backups along an unpaved five-kilometer stretch of the road. Trucking group ANATC said the traffic has left some cargos waiting three days to unload at Miritituba.
    Frustrations have boiled over into violent episodes between truckers and Indigenous protesters, according to a statement from Munduruku representatives.
    Brazil's powerful congressional farm lobby has been at odds with the Supreme Court over a proposed cut-off date for new reservations on lands where Indigenous people were not living in 1988.
    (Production: Janaina Quinet, Liamar Ramos)
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