But laborers hacked paths with machetes, and, eventually, Texaco paved roads and built an airport.
The striking miners carried traditional panga machetes and gathered Thursday around a small hill.
He said police were pursuing the raiders, who used firearms, spears, machetes and arrows.
Another popular beverage is coconut water, sucked from straws poking out of coconuts, tops hacked off expertly with machetes when ordered.
But when poachers carrying rifles or machetes traipse by a detector, it will send a radio signal to a treetop antenna.
Guides lead trekkers up precipitous verges and across rivers, and rusty machetes are used to hack paths through the thick, thorny rainforest.
And he said that the Penan would use blockades, blow-pipes and machetes to defend their culture, adding "we believe we can win".
During Mr. Fox's administration, for instance, a handful of protesters with machetes successfully derailed the government's biggest public works project, a new Mexico City airport.
Some carried machetes, others clubs and still others, bows and arrows.
Supporters of Kibaki, a member of the Kikuyu tribe, battled with machetes on the streets with supporters of Odinga, a member of the Luo tribe.
"There's some stuff that was very hairy and hard to get through, and machetes were helpful, " Reisinger said Monday after returning home to Asheville, North Carolina.
He said the police brought in barbed wire to fence in the miners, who were believed to be armed with guns, machetes and sticks, CNN affiliate E-TV reported.
The first time I realized automakers like to make parts out of unconventional materials, I was down in Brazil watching low-tech workers with machetes hack up coconut shells.
Roaming gangs armed with machetes and other homemade weapons burned shops and broke into the homes of their political opponents Saturday in Kibera, the largest slum in Kenya's capital.
In this high-tech environment, it is easy to forget that the early part of the ethanol production line consists of labourers spending long days swinging machetes in hot fields of charred cane.
South Africa's police are under scrutiny for other cases of violence, such as the Aug. 16 shooting into a crowd of mine protesters armed mostly with machetes and sticks, which left 34 people dead.
In Nairobi's slums, which are often divided along tribal lines, rival groups have been fighting each other with machetes and sticks as police use tear gas and bullets to keep them from pouring into the city center.
The next section is a hall of torches from every modern Olympic Games since 1936 -- a range of designs that include some that look like broom sticks (Atlanta, 1996), machetes (Sydney, 2000) and lightsabers (Tokyo, 1964).
Imagine barreling through the Amazonian rainforest with machetes flailing from the windows of your off-road rig, and just as you're about to kick the vehicle into low gear, you pause to consider the impact of your vehicle's exhaust (among other things) on the delicate ecosystem around.
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However, so long as a minority of Nigerians are willing to reach for their machetes and clubs to settle disputes, as they were in Sagamu last week, it looks as if Mr Obasanjo will have to continue to send out presidential delegations to calm enraged communities and comfort weeping families.
Up to 40 million people in the region depend on the rainforest for survival, but Greenpeace found evidence of communities granting logging rights to companies worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for gifts such as bags of salt, machetes, soap, coffee and beer or unfulfilled promises to build hospitals and schools.
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