“Without our land,' said Marcos Prado, whose house was the second to be demolished, “we become folklore.'
Karina Ferro Otsuka and her relatives had pleaded with the park rangers to spare their homes. But the men said they were simply following orders.
After it was over, the family gathered scraps of plywood from the rubble and placed them as rain shields for the piles of neatly folded clothes, steel pots and pans and everything else they had managed to save.She and her husband, Edmilson de Lima Prado, were expecting their first child in December and planning on a home birth. Now that seemed unlikely — at least not in this home.
The couples say that the land has been in their family for eight generations and that state law — as well as constitutional protections for traditional coastal communities known asBut the government says the plots they chose sit too far inside the Jureia-Itatins Ecological Station, an environmentally sensitive area three hours south of Sao Paulo, that was established in 1986 and is protected by international treaty as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
The government suggested that Ferro and her family would be allowed to build about six miles away in a development that the government set aside forBut the family said that moving to the development would doom its ability to live as subsistence farmers and fishermen. Still, they were surprised when the demolition crew showed up on July 4 and police blocked off the roads leading to the new homes.Ferro’s husband, Prado, and his cousin Marcos Prado had left early that morning to go fishing and wound up spending the day in police detention.
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