thanks again for your reports here, this one i read last night as well and appreciated the way you tied in the multiple assaults on the land, forests, water, and people, as well as the economic issues, and the government/armed forces betrayal of their agreement with the people.

this was a very good quote from one you interviewed,

"We do not accept the kind of ‘development' that the president offers us, because it is not sustainable and it threatens the Amazon rainforest, which is humanity's heritage. For that reason, if the government insists on sidelining us and continues to refuse to overturn the decrees, we will no longer block roads but will instead draw our own limits to establish how far into our territories we will allow the authorities to come. Our territory is our market, our mother. We don't have supermarkets like people in the big cities. We have to track and hunt down animals for two or three days, and find our food in the jungle. Everything we need for our survival is in the rainforest. That's why we are defending it with our lives. The struggle will continue until the laws are gone. We'll shut down oil extraction, and stop cooperating. What happens next is up to the government"