Talk:Alcântara Space Center

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Why no coverage of controversy over land use and population displacement
Ran into this in a respected secondary source for space news today, while sourcing another spaceflight-related statement in another article. Ars Technica (link) reported this on 9 April 2021:

Brazilian launch site stirs controversy. The Brazilian government is committed to further developing the Alcântara Launch Center on the country's north Atlantic coast, near the equator. However, the region is also home to Afro-Brazilian residents of settlements first established by escaped slaves. These settlements are known as Quilombola communities. The Washington Post recently did a deep dive into the controversy, examining how eviction of these communities would affect local residents. The newspaper found that the spaceport expansion could displace nearly 2,100 people from Quilombola communities.

Brazil's polarizing dilemma ... Marcos Pontes, head of the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, said there are no plans to relocate families "right now." And if the time comes to remove people, he predicted, they will go willingly. "They are going to see development coming in, real development," he said. "All of the resistance, that is going to be gradually disappearing." This seems unlikely. The clash is the distillation of one of Brazil's most urgent and polarizing dramas, the publication says. What is more important: developing a vast country with unrealized potential and a lagging economy? Or protecting some of its most vulnerable communities?

Seems that the story of obtaining the land for the launch site, and how it was obtained, is worthy of coverage in the article. Cheers. N2e (talk) 11:06, 28 May 2021 (UTC)