Video: In Brazil's Amazon, Quilombolas fight major palm oil firm for access to cemeteries

ALTO ACARÁ, Brazil — “The right of those who used to live here to access the cemetery is in the [Brazilian] Constitution. … The cemetery is a sacred place,” sociologist and historian Maria da Paz Saavedra told Mongabay during a visit to Our Lady of Battle Cemetery in the Amazon. The area, located in northern […]

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