Indigenous groups say Brazil plans Amazon grain train behind their backs
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Indigenous groups say Brazil plans Amazon grain train behind their backs

Hindustan Times  

By Anthony Boadle Indigenous groups say Brazil plans Amazon grain train behind their backs BRASILIA, - Indigenous people who see a threat to their ancestral lands from the construction of a railway to carry grains to a port in the Amazon on Monday pulled out of a work group created by the government last year to advance the project. In their letter to the transport minister, Indigenous communities said the studies were done with no discussion or involvement of the work group, and that transportation regulator ANTT was preparing to open bids for the construction of the railway. The railway would lead to deforestation and affect the lands of 16 Indigenous peoples "all this to increase the profits of large transnational companies that export soybeans and corn." Sydney Possuelo, Brazil's leading expert on isolated tribes, agreed the railway was "the lesser of two evils" as it would bring in less outsiders than an improved highway in a region already a hotbed for land grabbers, illegal miners and loggers.

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