AT SIX-THIRTY ON A THURSDAY EVENING in the Amazon town of Xapuri, the bell in the spire of the yellow stucco church on the town square began to ring.
An edition of The Burning Season
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The burning season
the murder of Chico Mendes and the fight for the Amazon rain forest
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"A well-written and sympathetic biography of the late Chico Mendes, leader of the Acre rubber tappers who was assassinated in Dec. 1988. Uses biographical format successfully to probe the wider economic, social, and political questions of Amazonian development. Excellent for classroom use"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
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