At the mouth of the great Amazon, not all visitors were welcome. Indigenous protesters in the Brazilian port city of Belém, which is hosting an annual major U.N. climate summit, forced their way into the premises of the meetings earlier this week, clashing with security personnel. They denounced the predations of vast agribusinesses, oil barons and illegal miners complicit in the deforestation of their Amazonian homelands. After some scuffles and agita, they eventually left.
