New Left Review I/173, January-February 1989

Susanna Hecht

Trees, Cows and Cocaine: An Interview with Susanna Hecht

O forest! They cut out your verdant heart.
The grasses, the Brazil nut trees,
the wild beasts already scent the
smell of prison. This we say:
People yearn to be free, so
Who will then be the masters of our
history?

Samba do Quinze

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1. Alexander Cockburn: Introduction to Hecht Interview
2. Chico Mendes: Chronicle of a Death Foretold

By the same author:

• On the Wild Coast Susanna Hecht on Peter Redfield, Space in the Tropics: from Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana. Defoe, Kafka and Verne unpacked from an anthropologist’s tool chest to frame new visions of France’s outpost in South America.
• Love and Death in Brazil
• Chico Mendes: Chronicle of a Death Foretold