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Soybeans Producers in Brazil's Amazon Threaten to Invade Greenpeace's Ship
Written by Thaís Brianezi
Friday, 19 May 2006
Since 8:30 this morning, May 19, the ship Arctic Sunrise, belonging to the non-governmental organization for environmental protection, Greenpeace, has been blockading a grain terminal built by the US multinational corporation, Cargill, in the northern Brazilian river port of Santarém.
The activists are protesting the advance of soybean cultivation in the Amazon region and the construction of the terminal without environmental impact studies.
They are surrounded by soybean producers who are threatening to invade the ship. So far the military police have succeeded in averting confrontations.
"We have already received notification from the port authority saying that we have to leave, that we are violating Brazilian laws," says the coordinator of Greenpeace's Amazon Campaign, Paulo Adário.
"We acknowledge the fact that the police must do its job, but we are doing ours. What must get out of here is this port, which is illegal."
Adário said that the protest began when activists climbed a soybean unloading bridge and extended a banner saying "Out with Cargill."
These uncompetent NGO members of Greenpeace must earn their salaries from their financial backers !
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... written by Guest,
May 19, 2006
why don't they complain the the government? If someone is doing something illegal in whatever country, it is that country's responsibility to enforce the law!
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the truth written by Guest,
May 20, 2006
the grenpeace is a plague we have to kill all of them because thei are suported by rich nations i ask whi they not plant a tree?
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Bah written by Guest,
May 20, 2006
"the Brazilian firms competing with Cargill ????"
Let them build their own terminals - assuming they have the resources to do so - and see who uses them.
Meanwhile... Greenpeace are a bunch of nutballs who even their founder now agrees have gone off the deep end. Sink the damned ship!
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Schiller written by Guest,
May 22, 2006
Gotta wonder if the Brazilians know that Greenpeace is funded by European governments and that half of Greenpeace USA revenues go back to Greenpeace international headquarters. This invasion of Brazil is paid for by foreign governments and foreign nationals, making a military defense option clearly justifiable.
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GMO Pundit written by Guest,
May 22, 2006
Greenpeace actually promoted imports of Brazilian soy into Europe when they helped ban US soy imports into Europe. this is explained here (or go to gmopundit.blogspot.com and do a site search):
In fact agbiotechnology, which Greenpeace opposed has actually saved a lot of Brazilian forest, because net Brazilian farm exports has increased while total farm are has stayed constant:
6 years back Greenpeace did the things they now criticise others for, and the technology they still oppose fixes up the problems they scream about.
What a brainless organisation.
Link explaining how better farm technology has allowed overall farming exports from Brazil to expand without net farm area increase
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Greenpeace morons written by Guest,
May 22, 2006
These idiots come from European countries where they have chopped down all of their trees and have little natural land left. Then they have the nerve to tell people in Brazil that they are not allowed to do the same in order to grow crops and feed themselves. Greenpeace = Imbeciles.
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For Amazon read Agromonopoly? written by Guest,
May 22, 2006
Mixed signals from Greenpeace maybe, and not a little over reaction and false nationalism from the above posts. More alarming is that the Amazon Rain Forest is being ploughed up for soybean production- apart from the questionable GM variety.
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As a Brazilian... written by Guest,
May 26, 2006
I perfectly understand the reasoning that greenpeace comes "from European countries where they have chopped down all of their trees and have little natural land left".
Still, what is wrong with trying to save something? These people have obviously learned their lesson in Europe and want to apply it in other nations. AS A BRAZILIAN, I know that my country needs help in the area. The people are entirely uneducated and have no concern for the environment. Without some assistance, I am sure that the rich and diverse place we know as the Amazon forest will soon be dead.
The world is our world after all; it is our home and we must do our best to preserve it, no matter the costs.
The small, coastal town of Condé is located just a twenty minute's drive from João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba. The Northeast of Brazil has historically been a place of encounter and mixing between peoples. For millenia groups of indigenous people fished, farmed, migrated and sometimes fought along this large, fertile area.
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The small, coastal town of Condé is located just a twenty minute's drive from João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba. The Northeast of Brazil has historically been a place of encounter and mixing between peoples. For millenia groups of indigenous people fished, farmed, migrated and sometimes fought along this large, fertile area. 
The Brazilian diplo-MÁ-cia (bad diplomacy) carries on its accelerated course towards the non-acknowledgment of human rights, although sometimes it takes pleasure in saying that it does precisely the opposite. The visit of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is another example of a diplomatic omission that verges on hypocrisy. 
On July 4, 2006, representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). After two and a half years, the protocol was approved by the legislative bodies of Argentina and Uruguay, and as of now it may be only days away from being ratified by the continent's economic megalith, Brazil. 
Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight against the illness in his country throughout his two terms. 
One hundred and eleven years after Brazil abolished slavery, the number of workers deprived of their freedom is still huge. They raise cattle, produce charcoal, sugar cane or timber. Some of them, most undocumented Bolivians, work in basements of small apparel factories in São Paulo and other metropolis. 
On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur footage of our experience on video (see link below). It's no surprise, of course, that the typical Brazilian jail lacks some of the functionality of those in North America or Europe, but our experience that day was quite shocking. 
Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For decades they have feared for the fate of the world's most biologically diverse and species-rich hothouse. 
Geisy Arruda made history this week in Brazil, but for all the wrong reasons. What began as a poorly planned fashion statement has become a worldwide tale. Geisy decided to wear a pink mini-dress to her private college in São Paulo state, and after that, all hell broke loose. 
The push of vigilante groups in Rio de Janeiro's favelas (shantytowns) in the last three years is the most important and alarming information of the just-released study by the Rio de Janeiro University's Violence Research Center (Nupev-Uerj). 
A dispute over drug trafficking territory in Rio de Janeiro has intensified lately, leaving in its wake unprecedented acts of violence, such as the downing of a police helicopter in the northern zone of the city on October 17. Three policemen died and another two were injured. This event has drawn the attention of the international media, who are raising the issue of public security for the 2016 Olympics to be held in Rio.
the Brazilian firms competing with Cargill ????
These uncompetent NGO members of Greenpeace must earn their salaries from their financial backers !