Brazil’s Alter do Chao, a sleepy village that blends rainforest and beaches, bet on tourism and scored big.
Over the past four years, Brazilians witnessed the impeachment of one president , the jailing of another and multiple corruption hearings of yet another — all leading to the election of a president who has praised the country’s former military dictatorship and said he would rather have a dead son than a gay son .
Santos brought the Associated Press to a recent development near the so-called Enchanted Forest, where a massive pier now links to an expansive home beside a stream. Land grabbers like this have seized many of the 17 nearby waterways, he said.“The family that lives there never asked permission for any of this. The house, the construction, nothing. Everyone knows,” said Santos, 47. “Now they are putting wooden stakes in the water. Soon there will be a net so no one else can come here.
“Some land grabbers went there because they like the view, others because it is good for agriculture,” he said. “We want to keep it intact because of our history.” João Romano moved here in 2017 from Sao Paulo, Brazil’s biggest metropolis, in search of a slower-paced life. He and his wife watched monkeys swing past their wooden home, and their daughters picked fruit dangling from trees. He became a volunteer firefighter for an environmental group and believed he’d found peace.
But a recording of Santarem Mayor Nelio Aguiar revealed that he told Para state Gov. Helder Barbalho that in fact local police were behind the fire. The federal prosecutors’ office confirmed to the AP that the fire was started in an area where a major land grabber had previously operated. Silas da Silva Soares was sentenced to six years and 10 months in prison in 2018 for seizing land in protected areas, but remains at large.
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