Get our news on your inbox! Suscribe x MercoPress, en Español Montevideo, May 5th 2025 - 13:13 UTC A gang of some 50 armed individuals attacked on Sunday night two banks burning vehicles and causing a shooting that left three suspects dead “There was an attack by an interstate gang against Banco do Brasil Some were detained and three attackers died,” Maranhao state governor Flavio Dino tweeted on Monday I can just see you rifling through people's bedrooms looking for perfume.. The Politicians do exactly the SAME and still get elected!! Commenting for this story is now closed.If you have a Facebook account, become a fan and comment on our Facebook Page Nossos serviços estão apresentando instabilidade no momento Algumas informações podem não estar disponíveis this state is responsible for 93% of the almonds of babacu coconut extracted in Brazil Huge stacks of this product can be seen in front of their houses expecting to be cracked and have the almonds extracted and traded is a coconut cracker since five years of age Even far from the activities due to health problems but sometimes I still crack two or three kilos" grandsons and great-grandsons with these earnings The expertise is passed from generation to generation and the issue of gender is key "The activity is exerted almost exclusively by women The girls learn early how to deal with the coconuts by following their mothers when they take them home to crack and extract the almond" The coconut crackers are one of the 15 Brazilian ethnic identities recognized as traditional communities and should have their way of life protected by the State their major conquests mainly came from the Interstate Movement of Babacu Coconut Crackers - MIQCB Their major achievement was the creation of a state law and spread along several other municipalities The Free Babacu acts entitled the women rights on the coconut trees regardless of the land where they were found the women alleged that the right to life came before the right to a private property they surrounded the coconut trees with their children around They said that each coconut tree felled was a mother who dropped together" In the municipalities with the Free Babacu Act the farmers allow the entrance of the women in their farms without any negotiation and they are not allowed to chop down the trees and use agrotoxins Antunes explains that the legislation assures that the farmers maintain a minimum distance among the coconut trees and keep adult and young trees together Burning whole coconuts was not allowed anymore as well as chopping the coconut tree and coconut bunches increasing the availability of the coconuts and decreasing the distance covered by the women "All this organization increased the price of the almonds" the Free Babacu Act did not arrive in Bacabal and handling babacu coconuts is decreasingly worthwhile That region bets in the Standing Babacu Forest Project aiming at organizing the babacu crackers to know and fight for their rights including the implementation of the Free Babacu Act The project also envisages the creation of the Babacu Fund with financial resources to improve the life conditions of the agro-extractive families See the full story in the Retratos Magazine no. 15 © 2018 IBGE - Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística Nós utilizamos cookies para melhorar sua experiência de navegação no portal. Para saber mais sobre como tratamos os dados pessoais, consulte nossa Política de Privacidade. Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Sunday flew over 53 cities declared under emergency due to rains The head of state also called for the speedy approval of popular housing plans to assist the victims Joining Lula were Ministers Flávio Dino (Justice) and Paulo Pimenta (Secom) Lula focused on the northeastern State of Maranhão where he visited a shelter in the municipality of Bacabal He recalled that when he was 19 years old he spent several nights in such camps due to the flooding of his house in São Paulo ”I already lived in neighborhoods where the water rose up to a meter and a half and you woke up with cockroaches That's why I know what this town goes through (...) And there is no time to take out the furniture ”I am going to be seven or eight days outside (Brazil) and I could not travel to another country without visiting the Brazilian states that are having problems due to the floods And Maranhão is the state with the most difficult situation right now,“ said Lula who is to depart on a trip to China and the United Arab Emirates this week On Easter Day and on the eve of his first 100 days in office for the third time Lula asked for the ”union“ of governors and society to carry out his popular housing solutions and avoid more disasters due to the rains which have intensified since March and have so far left six dead and almost 36,000 families affected of which 7,500 had to leave their homes due to flooding and landslides ”The Minister of Cities [Jader Filho] is here listening to me In the construction projects of new houses we need to convince people that it is not possible to build a house in a place that we know will flood,“ Lula was quoted as saying by Agencia Brasil during a press conference with Maranhão Governor Carlos Brandão ”In 2009 I came here in Bacabal in a flood Roseana [Sarney] was governor and I was here in the same river It is a demonstration that when you live near the river there is no way you will suffer flooding when the rain is too much”