Blockades, checkpoints and court action: fending off Brazil’s biofuel giants in the Amazon

After decades of violent displacement and land theft, the country’s quilombola communities are fighting back For most of his 39 years, Josias Dias dos Santos, known as Jota, has endured degrading cycles of displacement as a quilombola , a descendant of Black people once enslaved…

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