Meanwhile, down on the Xingu. (development in Brazil) (Beat the Devil) (column)

The Nation | November 7, 1988| | Copyright

The Chinantecs are not the only ones on the receiving end of such "developmental" madness. The same disordered system of priorities is being exercised-though still at a preliminary stage-on a far grander scale farther south, in Brazil, a country which has been the object of much stately congratulation in the U.S. press for its progress toward democracy, as signaled by a new Constitution.

In mid-October in Belem, soggy gateway to the Amazon, more than fifty-four groups, including persons of science, the Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores) and voodoo priests, ...

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