TOXIC: Amazon - Part 2
On May 24, 2011—the same day Brazil's Parliament voted to decrease logging restrictions in the country's Forest Code—married environmental activists Zé Cláudio Riveiro and Maria do Espirtu Santo were shot to death outside their house in the Amazonian state of Para. A month later we traveled to Zé Cláudio's hometown of Marabá, which was once in the middle of the rainforest and is now surrounded by miles and miles of clearcut cattle land. As the investigation into Zé and Maria's murders went nowhere, we drove into the forest to the site of the killings, followed the heavily armed men of Brazil's environmental protection agency as they busted up illegal timber mills, visited the militant squatters of Brazil's Landless Movement, met modern day slaves, and marveled at the lawless, violent atmosphere that permeates the town locals call Marabála (that means Mara-bullets).
More From Toxic
-
Toxic: America's Water Crisis
Every time it rains in New York City, billions of gallons of raw sewage are piped directly into the Hudson River. Superstorms like Hurricane Sandy only magnify the issue by flooding New York's waterways with even more human feces. It's a direct effect of the way New York City's w…
-
Toxic: TOXIC: Gulf
As the rest of the world busts a gasket over dying pelicans, we sent Baby Balls down to Louisian-aye-ay to hang out with some humans whose lives just got smothered in oil.
-
Toxic: TOXIC: Imperial Valley
In the burning fields of Southern California’s Imperial Valley, the honey bee population is dying, and so are millions of fish in the Salton Sea. Meanwhile, the squatters of Slab City try to live off the grid and hold on to what’s left of the American Wild West.
-
Toxic: TOXIC: Napoli
In the city of Naples and the surrounding countryside of Campania, Italy, the Mafia has controlled the waste-management industry for decades.
-
Toxic: TOXIC: Garbage Island
VBS sets sail for the North Pacific Gyre, the collecting point for an entire ocean’s worth of trash and possibly the single most polluted place in the history of time.
-
Toxic: TOXIC: Alberta
Once pristine wilderness, Alberta is now a world of poisoned water, polluted air, and rare cancer. VBS travels to the oil sands of Canada to investigate the impact of digging for this previously unobtainable oil.
More News
-
VICE News: Triple Hate - Part 1
'Triple Hate' is a four-part documentary about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Memphis City Council, the Klan, the Crips, Ulysses S. Grant, racism, and the specter of history. It will be running all of this week, only on VICE.com.
-
VICE News: White Student Union - Trailer
We recently went to Towson University to speak with Matthew Heimbach, the founder of a group that advocates for “persons of European heritage." We also met the students who want him off campus... or at least muzzled. 'White Student Union' is a documentary about race, class, and s…
-
VICE News: Sisa: Cocaine of the Poor
A new drug called sisa is tearing its way through Athens' poor.
-
VICE News: Triple Hate - Trailer
'Triple Hate' is a documentary about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Memphis City Council, the Klan, the Crips, Ulysses S. Grant, racism, and the specter of history. Part one premieres Monday, May 20, on VICE.com.
-
VICE News: This Is What Winning Looks Like
Filmmaker and author Ben Anderson went to Afghanistan in 2007 and stayed for six years. 'This Is What Winning Looks Like' is his disturbing documentary about the ineptitude, drug abuse, sexual misconduct, and corruption of the Afghan security forces and the role of US Marines dur…
-
VICE on HBO Outt... Egypt on the Brink - Women Under Assault
VICE co-founder Suroosh Alvi meets with some local activists around Tahrir Square to learn about the horrible conditions female protesters have been put in while their country has been turned upside down.
-
VICE on HBO Outtakes: Kalpana Saroj, India's Dalit Queen
VICE co-founder Shane Smith meets real-life slum dog millionaire Kalpana Saroj, who was once at the very bottom of the Indian caste system, making pennies a day in a sweatshop. She eventually became a talented tailor and miraculously rose the ranks to become the CEO of a multi-mi…
-
VICE News: This Is What Winning Looks Like - Trailer
Filmmaker and author Ben Anderson went to Afghanistan in 2007. He didn't plan on staying for six years, but we're glad he did, because now we have 'This Is What Winning Looks Like,' his disturbing new documentary about the ineptitude, drug abuse, sexual misconduct, and corruption…
-
VICE on HBO Outtakes: The Fat Farms of Mauritania
In Mauritania, a country crippled by food shortages, obesity is viewed as a woman's sign of wealth and prestige. To attain Mauritanian standards of beauty, many women undergo the practice of gavage, or fattening up. While traditionally the practice of fattening includes chugging
-
VICE on HBO Outt... Chinese Cockblock: The Sex Doll Factory
With 50 million more men than women, the sex industry in China is growing rapidly. For epsidoe five of 'VICE' on HBO, we went to a sex doll factory in the city of Dalian to see the effects of the uneven dating landscape.
More From This Show
-
TOXIC: Garbage Island
VBS sets sail for the North Pacific Gyre, the collecting point for an entire ocean’s worth of trash and possibly the single most polluted place in the history of ti
-
America's Water Crisis
Every time it rains in New York City, billions of gallons of raw sewage are piped directly into the Hudson River. Superstorms like Hurricane Sandy only magnify the issue by flooding New York's waterwa…
-
TOXIC: Amazon
We went to investigate an environmental activist's murder in Marabé, Brazil, the front lines of the fight to preserve or plow under the Amazon Rainforest, and a town so lawless and violent the locals…
-
TOXIC: Gulf
As the rest of the world busts a gasket over dying pelicans, we sent Baby Balls down to Louisian-aye-ay to hang out with some humans whose lives just got smothered in oil.
-
TOXIC: West Virginia
VBS investigates mountain-top removal in Appalachia – and shows us what the end of the world looks like.
Comments