Paid in Blood

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In the jungles of the Brazilian Amazon, groups of farmers and their families get by on what they can grow with the land beneath their feet. They're known in Brazil as "landless workers," a social movement with the goal of increasing land access and ownership for the country's rural poor. These landless workers -- sometimes called land guardians or protectors -- are a symbol for the power imbalances that have destroyed the Amazon. Atmos Climate Editor Yessenia Funes brings us a story about one landless worker named Fernando dos Santos Araújo. In 2017, Fernando witnessed the massacre of his fellow landless workers on a small farm in Pará, Brazil. His story illustrates the violent tactics that…