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                        href="https://substack.com/@eoinhiggins" 
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      style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px">Ana 
      Laide Soares Barbosa’s Movimento Xingu Vivo Para Sempre is part of the 
      Volta Grande do Xingu Alliance, a coalition aimed at protecting the Amazon 
      region from development (Ekō is also a member).</P>
      <P 
      style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px">We 
      wanted to hear from Ana about the work she did in 2025, and where the 
      alliance is headed this year. </P>
      <P 
      style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px"><B>Can 
      you tell us about your work in 2025?</B></P>
      <P 
      style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px">Our 
      work was carried out on two fronts, namely:</P>
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        <P 
        style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 4px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px"><SPAN>Legal 
        and political advocacy and defense. Working with bodies such as the 
        State and Federal Public Defender’s Offices, the Federal Court of 
        Accounts (TCU) and the State and Federal Public Prosecutor’s Offices, as 
        well as special UN and IACHR spaces and reports, in cases that seek to 
        defend the territory of traditional and Indigenous communities not 
        living in villages threatened by the Belo Sun mining company, and also 
        in cases of criminalization and threats to human rights defenders. 
        </SPAN><BR><SPAN>We also work on political advocacy with government 
        structures such as Incra, Ibama, Funai, the Ministry of Human Rights and 
        others.</SPAN></P>
        <LI style="MARGIN: 8px 0px 0px 32px">
        <P 
        style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 4px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px"><SPAN>Fieldwork 
        carried out with communities and leaders in Volta Grande do Xingu 
        affected and/or threatened by large projects in the region, working on 
        training to confront threats, rights violations, criminalization and 
        conflicts, on the one hand, and on building a life project that includes 
        the management of their territories in an environmentally, culturally, 
        politically and economically sustainable manner, on the other. 
        </SPAN><BR><SPAN>Since 2023, this process has included working with 
        landless campers who are facing the transfer of areas of an agrarian 
        reform settlement to the mining company Belo Sun; and, since 2025, 
        direct work with Juruna, Kayapó, Akroá Gamella and Xipaya indigenous 
        families seeking recognition of their territories, which have been 
        usurped by megaprojects in Volta Grande do Xingu.</SPAN></P></LI></OL>
      <P 
      style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px"><B>What 
      is the status of the Belo Sun project? Are you working to block 
it?</B></P>
      <P 
      style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px">⁠The 
      Belo Sun project’s license has currently been shelved by the Pará State 
      Environment Secretariat. The agreement between the Belo Sun company and 
      the Institute of Agrarian Reform (INCRA), which ceded approximately 2,400 
      hectares of the PA Ressaca settlement, was annulled by the federal judge 
      of the Altamira-PA court and ratified by the judge who took over the case 
      when it was contested by the mining company. </P>
      <P 
      style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px">This 
      case is awaiting an appeal decision. In the second week of December, Belo 
      Sun was the target of a protest by Indigenous women from the Middle Xingu. 
      This demonstration resulted in the submission of guidelines questioning 
      the studies and consultations carried out with the communities surrounding 
      the project.</P>
      <P 
      style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px">The 
      results of the political and legal incidents were supported by the 
      groundwork and research carried out through my work in the field, as well 
      as the occupation of the agrarian reform plots granted by INCRA to Belo 
      Sun.</P>
      <P 
      style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px"><B>How 
      can Ekō’s audience help?</B></P>
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        <P 
        style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 4px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px">Effective 
        security for the approximately 200 families we work with in the Volta 
        Grande do Xingu, the 50 families occupying the land that Belo Sun stole 
        from the Agrarian Reform</P>
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        <P 
        style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 4px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px">Contributions 
        to expand other groups to influence the autonomy of the territories of 
        the Volta Grande do Xingu</P>
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        style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 4px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px">Financial 
        contributions through campaigns for the work that the Xingu Vivo 
        Movement develops in defense of traditional communities and the 
        environment</P></LI></UL>
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      other news</B></H3>
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      style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px"><I><B>Eye 
      on the next prize</B></I></P>
      <P 
      style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px">US 
      President Donald Trump’s threats after the kidnapping of Venezuelan 
      President Nicolas Maduro are escalating. </P>
      <P 
      style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px">Invading 
      Greenland, long a target of Trump’s, appears to be an option on the table 
      for the White House. That’s led longstanding allies in Europe to make 
      contingency plans and to brace themselves for the end of NATO. </P>
      <P 
      style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px">“We 
      would like to add some nuance to the conversation,. The shouting match 
      must be replaced by a more sensible dialogue. Now.”—Danish Foreign 
      Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen</P>
      <P 
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      rel="" target=_blank>the New York Times</A><SPAN>) (</SPAN><A 
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      href="https://substack.com/redirect/28414801-2395-4901-befe-d53c4cf7b14f?j=eyJ1IjoiNmt4bXlxIn0.udC0DBtJXyZNpMwShZCd-uAoWkguQPOShGIcBFETULg" 
      rel="" target=_blank>the Guardian</A><SPAN>)</SPAN></P>
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      style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px"><I><B>Resurgence 
      of danger</B></I></P>
      <P 
      style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px">Fighting 
      in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is raising fears that violence 
      in the region could escalate. </P>
      <P 
      style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px">Congolese 
      authorities blamed Rwandan militants for the attacks near the city of 
      Uvira, claiming the groups are responsible for at least 1,500 civilian 
      deaths since the beginning of December.</P>
      <P 
      style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px">Locals 
      just want an end to the violence, they told Al Jazeera last month. </P>
      <P 
      style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px">“We 
      don’t know anything about the political process they are talking about. 
      The only thing we need is peace. Anyone able to provide us with peace is 
      welcome here. For the rest, we as citizens, we don’t care about it.”—Uvira 
      resident Feza Mariam</P>
      <P 
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      rel="" target=_blank>Africa News</A><SPAN>) (</SPAN><A 
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      href="https://substack.com/redirect/c7ee4ce6-aeae-4d1a-8286-d403ba79f85b?j=eyJ1IjoiNmt4bXlxIn0.udC0DBtJXyZNpMwShZCd-uAoWkguQPOShGIcBFETULg" 
      rel="" target=_blank>DW</A><SPAN>) (</SPAN><A 
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      your campaign of the day</B></H3>
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      style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px">Trump 
      has invaded Venezuela, abducted its sitting president, and announced that 
      it intends to take over its oil operations.</P>
      <P 
      style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px">But 
      despite Trump’s claims that American fossil fuel giants will “fix” 
      Venezuela’s oil infrastructure, none of the companies have spoken out in 
      favour of Trump’s plan yet. That includes Chevron, the only US oil company 
      currently operating in Venezuela. </P>
      <P 
      style="LINE-HEIGHT: 26px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px; COLOR: rgb(54,55,55); FONT-SIZE: 16px">How 
      Chevron responds could either spell the end of Venezuelan sovereignty, or 
      stop Trump’s disastrous plan in its tracks. We can still end this invasion 
      before it escalates further, but only if there’s overwhelming pressure on 
      Chevron to reject the plan. </P>
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      Venezuela!</SPAN></A></P>
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