Jason Pinas (The Guardian) reports from Klaaskreek, Suriname. He writes about the possible immigration of Mennonite farmers to Suriname: “Secretive Christian sect poised to carve big farms out of the Amazon, despite concerns of Indigenous people about the settlers’ deforestation elsewhere in Latin America.” Tempers are running high in Klaaskreek, a village 50 miles south…
Secretive Christian sect poised to carve big farms out of the Amazon, despite concerns of Indigenous people about the settlers’ deforestation elsewhere in Latin America
PARAMARIBO, Suriname (CMC): Plans by the Surinamese government to allow Mennonites, a closed religious sect that professes the Anabaptist faith, to settle in the Dutch-speaking CARICOM country, to practise large-scale agriculture are being met with.
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