Life Of Chico Mendes Research Paper
The life of Chico Mendes.
Born: December 15, 1944 Xapuri, Brazil
Died: December 22, 1988 (aged 44) Xapuri, Brazil
"At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realise I am fighting for humanity."
Chico was many things, he was a steward to this earth, a unionist,an enviromental activist , a father, a husband and the list carrys on. This story starts with Chico being a rubber tapper. Following his father, he was "a seringueiro", a rubber tapper. He farmed a small clearing, but relied on the sale of rubber from several hundred native rubber trees in the rain forest itself to provide income for him and his family. Chico inherited …show more content…
At that day and age, the rubber tappers were conned out of their money by the people who bought the rubber. Becaue of the little education they all recieved, they couldn't do basic things, like reading or writing. The man that bought the rubber would lie about how much rubber he was given and the price the rubber was worth. This was changed when Chico met a man called Wilson, Wilson came to the rainforest because he was told you could get rich from rubber tapping and told Chico that if he taught him how to tap rubber than in return, Wilson would educate Chico about things like, reading, writing and …show more content…
This made the class laugh.
In many of the protest Chico told the memebers of the union to sit down and not fight back, because if they fought back, their enemies would say it was "self defence" when they harmed the inoccent union memebers.The man that was buying the forest for ranches, ambushed the union and shot a boy dead, putting 9 bullets in his body.
Chico later ran for governour, his wife did not approve and she begged Chico not to draw attention to himself. Chico didn't get enough votes to become govenour and his opponent was giving away free chainsaws which made Chico lose some votes from his once loyal friends.
When Chico was already a father to one child, his daughter. His wife once again became pregnant to two boys, sadly only one of his sons survived, the other passed away.
When Chico went to Miami, he become more well known, which showed people about how the companies wanted to exploit the rainforest. Because Chico was becoming a threat to the companies plans, people came to negotiate what was going to happen,"For a negotiation, there needs to be a give, and a take." Explained one of the men. "Fine, give us back or land, and take away the chainsaws." Replied Chico as he laughed at his own
Born: December 15, 1944 Xapuri, Brazil
Died: December 22, 1988 (aged 44) Xapuri, Brazil
"At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realise I am fighting for humanity."
Chico was many things, he was a steward to this earth, a unionist,an enviromental activist , a father, a husband and the list carrys on. This story starts with Chico being a rubber tapper. Following his father, he was "a seringueiro", a rubber tapper. He farmed a small clearing, but relied on the sale of rubber from several hundred native rubber trees in the rain forest itself to provide income for him and his family. Chico inherited …show more content…
At that day and age, the rubber tappers were conned out of their money by the people who bought the rubber. Becaue of the little education they all recieved, they couldn't do basic things, like reading or writing. The man that bought the rubber would lie about how much rubber he was given and the price the rubber was worth. This was changed when Chico met a man called Wilson, Wilson came to the rainforest because he was told you could get rich from rubber tapping and told Chico that if he taught him how to tap rubber than in return, Wilson would educate Chico about things like, reading, writing and …show more content…
This made the class laugh.
In many of the protest Chico told the memebers of the union to sit down and not fight back, because if they fought back, their enemies would say it was "self defence" when they harmed the inoccent union memebers.The man that was buying the forest for ranches, ambushed the union and shot a boy dead, putting 9 bullets in his body.
Chico later ran for governour, his wife did not approve and she begged Chico not to draw attention to himself. Chico didn't get enough votes to become govenour and his opponent was giving away free chainsaws which made Chico lose some votes from his once loyal friends.
When Chico was already a father to one child, his daughter. His wife once again became pregnant to two boys, sadly only one of his sons survived, the other passed away.
When Chico went to Miami, he become more well known, which showed people about how the companies wanted to exploit the rainforest. Because Chico was becoming a threat to the companies plans, people came to negotiate what was going to happen,"For a negotiation, there needs to be a give, and a take." Explained one of the men. "Fine, give us back or land, and take away the chainsaws." Replied Chico as he laughed at his own