When “Green Justice” Means Bulldozing Poor Farmers

The Amazon’s Forgotten People: When“Environmental Justice” Means Bulldozing Poor Farmers By Hotspotnews While the world prepares for yet another lavish COP30 climate summit in Brazil, federal agents are quietly carrying out one of the cruelest operations in recent memory deep in the Amazon rainforest. Hundreds of small farming families—many of them descendants of rubber tappers […]

Brazil’s Soy Moratorium: A Flawed Green Scheme Facing Scrutiny

  Brazil’s Soy Moratorium: A Flawed Green Scheme Facing Just Scrutiny By Hotspotnews The Amazon Soy Moratorium, a 2006 pact among soy traders to shun soybeans from deforested Amazon land, is crumbling under the weight of its own contradictions—and it’s about time. This voluntary agreement, pushed by environmental NGOs and foreign buyers, has been sold […]

Brazil’s “Devastation Bill”: A Shameful Green Light for Criminals

Brazil’s “Devastation Bill”: A Shameful Green Light for Criminals to Ravage the Amazon By Hotspotorlando News Brazil has just plunged a dagger into the heart of its own natural treasure, the Amazon rainforest, with the so-called “devastation bill” – a grotesque piece of legislation that might as well be a love letter to organized crime. […]