{"id":724,"date":"2017-05-05T00:30:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T00:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=724"},"modified":"2017-05-05T00:30:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T00:30:46","slug":"amazon-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2017\/05\/05\/amazon-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story-body\">\n<div class=\"story-body__inner\">\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Human rights groups in Brazil have called on the government to increase protection for indigenous people after a tribe was attacked.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Gamela tribe suffered gunshot wounds, stabbings and amputations in a land rights dispute in the Amazon state of Maranhao.<\/p>\n<p>Reports say the attackers were farmers and landowners.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a rise in such assaults across Brazil, with the perpetrators rarely caught.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights groups say proposed government cuts in the budgets of environmental enforcement agencies will worsen the situation.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-38969249\">History sheds light on Amazon diversity<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\"><a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-39149334\">Amazon forest &#8216;shaped by ancient tribes&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to reports, the Gamela tribal camp was surrounded by farmers and landowners armed with clubs, guns and knives.<\/p>\n<p>Several tribespeople were shot and stabbed &#8211; and at least two had their hands hacked off with machetes.<\/p>\n<p>The severely wounded victims, who numbered at least a dozen, were taken to hospital in the state capital, Sao Luis.<\/p>\n<p>The impoverished and violent north-eastern state of Maranhao is at the forefront of the fight against illegal deforestation and encroachment on indigenous lands, the BBC&#8217;s Wyre Davies says.<\/p>\n<p>But he adds that the perpetrators of attacks on tribal people are often protected by corrupt politicians and police allied to landowners.<\/p>\n<p>Indigenous leaders who try to take legal action, and their supporters in environmental pressure groups, are often deliberately targeted or even assassinated in a country where rural violence often goes unpunished.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-39784618<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights groups in Brazil have called on the government to increase protection for indigenous people after a tribe was attacked. Members of the Gamela tribe suffered gunshot wounds, stabbings and amputations in a land rights dispute in the Amazon state of Maranhao. Reports say the attackers were farmers and landowners. There has been a rise in such assaults across&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2017\/05\/05\/amazon-attack\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}