Chico Mendes Biography: The Man Who Used Literacy to Save the Amazon
The Chico Mendes Biography: The Man Who Used Literacy to Save the Amazon. Chico Mendes began tapping rubber at nine years old and could not read until a communist exile hiding in the rainforest taught him at seventeen. He used that literacy to read newspapers, understand injustice, organise workers, invent a new form of conservation, … Read more