That woman holding up the machete is Tuira Kayapó. She’s a respected leader who has been fighting to protect the amazon in Brazil for decades from western multinational companies.in 1989 She walked up to the President of Light holding Company Petrobras and running the blade of her machete three times over his cheeks, proclaimed his act on her people and on the entire Amazon as an act of war and told him, in her native tongue: “You are a liar.
We do not need electricity. Electricity is not going to give us our food. We need our rivers to flow freely: our future depends on it. We need our jungles for hunting and gathering. We do not need your dam.”
(Collected from Kribsoo Diallo’s facebook page)