A close associate of Chico Mendes, Gomercindo Rodrigues witnessed
the struggle between Brazil's rubber tappers and local ranchers--a
struggle that led to the murder of Mendes. Rodrigues's memoir of
his years with Mendes has never before been translated into English
from the Portuguese. Now, Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes
makes this important work available to new audiences, capturing the
events and trends that shaped the lives of both men and the fragile
system of public security and justice within which they lived and
worked.
In a rare primary account of the celebrated labor organizer,
Rodrigues chronicles Mendes's innovative proposals as the Amazon
faced wholesale deforestation. As a labor unionist and an
environmentalist, Mendes believed that rain forests could be
preserved without ruining the lives of workers, and that destroying
forests to make way for cattle pastures threatened humanity in the
long run. Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes also brings to light
the unexplained and uninvestigated events surrounding Mendes's
murder.
Although many historians have written about the plantation
systems of nineteenth-century Brazil, few eyewitnesses have
captured the rich rural history of the twentieth century with such
an intricate knowledge of history and folklore as Rodrigues.
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