Chico Mendes, Brazilian trade union leader and activist (born 1944)

Chico Mendes

Brazilian trade union leader and environmentalist (1944–1988)

Francisco Alves Mendes Filho, better known as Chico Mendes, was a Brazilian rubber tapper, trade union leader, and environmentalist. He fought to preserve the Amazon rainforest, and advocated for the human rights of Brazilian peasants and Indigenous people. He was assassinated…