Murder in the Amazon

April 11, 1989

Season 1989: Episode 9

Chico Mendes was an environmentalist and a leader of seringueiros, Brazilian rubber tappers, who struggle to defend their forests from destruction by cattle ranchers and developers. Mendes’s murder in December 1988 focused international attention on the ecological pillage of millions of acres of Amazonian rain forest.

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