内容摘要：Unlike previous populist governments that kept consumer spending high at the cost of a massive budget deficit, Milei dismantled price controls, cut subsidies on energy

Unlike previous populist governments that kept consumer spending high at the cost of a massive budget deficit, Milei dismantled price controls, cut subsidies on energy

Alcindo Farias Junior, who works in the production of acai, shows the fruit, reached by the salty waters in the community of Vila de Sao Pedro in the Bailique Archipelago, district of Macapa, state of Amapa, northern Brazil, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)According to geologist Valdenira dos Santos, who has studied the region for over two decades, several things contribute to the damage, including grazing buffalo, hydropower plants nearby, the natural dynamics of the estuary and on top of that, climate change.

“We are in a coastal system, which is influenced by what happens both at sea and on land. It is a system that changes fast on its own. And now human activities are changing that system,” says Santos, a researcher at the Institute for Scientific and Technological Research of Amapa.Raimundo Brazao dos Santos transports acai palm hearts collected for sale in an island in the Bailique Archipelago, district of Macapa, state of Amapa, northern Brazil, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)Raimundo Brazao dos Santos transports acai palm hearts collected for sale in an island in the Bailique Archipelago, district of Macapa, state of Amapa, northern Brazil, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Local residents collect acai palm hearts for sale on an island in the Bailique Archipelago, district of Macapa, state of Amapa, northern Brazil, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)Local residents collect acai palm hearts for sale on an island in the Bailique Archipelago, district of Macapa, state of Amapa, northern Brazil, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Data is limited: There is no monitoring at the mouth of the Amazon River. The closest official monitoring station is in Obidos, about 700 kilometers (430 miles) upstream.

“Brazil does not have the most basic information to face the challenges of climate change in coastal and maritime areas,” said Santos. “We need ongoing monitoring to have a steady flow of information to plan mitigation and adaptation.”“We’re going to be back in this situation of constant turnover,” said Mark Lauritsen, who runs the meatpacking division for the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents thousands of Panhandle workers. “That’s assuming you have labor to replace the labor we’re losing.”

Nearly half of workers in the meatpacking industry are thought to be foreign-born. Immigrants have long found work in slaughterhouses, back to at least the late 1800s when multitudes of Europeans — Lithuanians, Sicilians, Russian Jews and others — filled Chicago’s Packingtown neighborhood.The Panhandle plants were originally dominated by Mexicans and Central Americans. They gave way to waves of people fleeing poverty and violence around the world, from

Nicole, a Haitian immigrant who works for a meat processing plant, looks for wild flowers outside her apartment, April 13, 2025, in Dumas, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)Nicole, a Haitian immigrant who works for a meat processing plant, looks for wild flowers outside her apartment, April 13, 2025, in Dumas, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)