Brazil Backs Down on Amazon Rivers After Indigenous Revolt

2026-02-25 - 12:13

Key Points — Brazil revoked Decree 12,600 on Monday, scrapping plans to include the Tapajós, Madeira and Tocantins rivers in the national privatization program after Indigenous groups occupied a Cargill port for 33 days — The government framed the reversal as democratic listening; critics on the right called it capitulation to pressure that rewards vandalism