War In The Amazon

I REMEMBER GOING TO VISIT AN ABAN- doned Kayap6 village site near Conceiqgo do Ara- guaia, in July of last

IN FEBRUARY, WHEN THE KAYAPO INDI- ans of ParAi state hosted a meeting of native people and environmentalists from around

IN THE AMAZON, WHEN TREES FALL PEO- ple die. Sometimes they die because their livelihood is destroyed. Other times because

James Baker as Marlboro Man Washington Post Sunday Magazine January 29, 1989 Double Standard Headlines after five Central Ameri- can

THE CONQUEST OF THE AMERICAS IS NEAR- ing completion. The final large redoubt of uncon- quered territory, the Amazon, is

These placid creatures which used to require so little food have now apparently developed a raging appetite and turned into

When Brazil's Left-labor Workers Party (PT) swept 35 mayoralties in November, Sao Paulo-South Amer- ica's largest city--came to be gov-

When riots broke out in Venezuela on February 27, the government of- fered explanations that were as numer- ous as

BUSINESS AS USUAL T HE ESSENCE OF OBJECTIVE JOURNALISM is its supposed impartiality. Though experienced journalists are well aware that

Frontier Expansion in Amazonia edited by Marianne Schmink and Charles H. Wood. University of Flor- ida Press, 1984, 502 pp.,