This is Brazil by the Numbers, a weekly digest of the most interesting figures tucked inside the latest news about Brazil. Random numbers that help explain what is going on in Brazil. This week: indigenous “guardians” are dying in their fight to protect the Amazon, Brazil set to have record grain harvest, the economy starts to pick up and the results from XP Inc’s “IPO of the decade.”
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On December 7, indigenous leaders Raimundo Guajajara and Firmino Guajajara were assassinated in an ambush when they were leaving the indigenous land of Araribóia, Maranhão state, in the latest episode of bloodshed in the area. Five days later, a third member of the Guajajara tribe was murdered. On December 12, editor Euan Marshall explained the struggles of the so-called “Guardians of the Forest,” who ask for support from Brazilian authorities to prevent poachers and illegal loggers from...
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