The life of Chico Mendes

Chico Mendes life began just as a rubber taper as a virtual slave bound to the bounding master. Chico Mendes started work at only nine years old. Chico Mendes knew how to rubber tap before he

New the ABC. When Chico Mendes was only a little boy an middle aged man taught him to read and write an In return he taught the man how to rubber tap.

When he grow up there was a big rebellion in brazil between Chico Mendes and his followers and the people who wanted to cut down the trees. But Chico did not want him to do the because he needed the trees and the land for his job to go on for him and his children.