Amazon Rain Forest

In general, this social structure reflects as well the social structure in Latin America in general. However, what makes the situation in Brazil even more tragic and disastrous is that the greed and inhumanity of the few wealthy landowners is destroying not only the lives of the many poor but the life of the rain forest itself as well.

The fact that the man about whom the book was written was murdered and his killers remain free is an added sign of the dark reality faced today by Brazil, the rain forest, the poor and exploited workers for which Mendes fought, and the whole world whose ecology is tied to the rain forest. The book is not a hopeful work, but one which is meant to throw rage and fear into the heart of the reader. It is true that Mendes' efforts on behalf of the workers resulted in the government's setting aside of 61,000 acres as an "extractive reserve" safe from the ravages if the exploiters of the rain forest, but that is only a pittance com

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s an important figure not only because he was working for the rights and livelihood of the poor workers in the region, but also because he was fighting to save the forest, or at least as much as he could through such innovative approaches as the "extractive reserves." The rubber tappers are a notch above other poor workers in the social structure of the region who struggle independently to merely survive. There is a history and tradition to the tappers and their part in that social structure: . . . Latex . . . lured the grandfather of Mendes and tens of thousands of other men . . . in two waves over the past hundred and twenty years. . . . These men settled in the forests . . . and worked in solitude, fighting to make a life from the living forest--and fighting to free themselves from bosses who saw to it that they remained enslaved by their debts (Revkin 8). When the tappers' homes, work, lives and the forest were threatened by the new ranchers and speculators, on top of the old and larger landowners, the tappers organized and fought back, making even more clear the divisions in the social structure, and how that structure was almost entirely dependent on the rain forest and its resources. The speculators, ranchers and big
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