Criminal groups bring corruption, drug-trafficking and murder, which the authorities often fail to stop
had a bad reputation in the region because he did a lot of reporting against gold miners,” said Brazil’s president,, on June 15th. Hours later police announced that they had found human remains likely to be those of Dom Phillips, a British journalist who was working on a book called “How to Save the Amazon”, and Bruno Pereira, an expert on indigenous peoples. A fisherman has confessed to the crime, and his brother has also been detained, but authorities expect further arrests.
Violence is nothing new for the region. In the 1970s Brazil’s military regime built highways and hydroelectric dams on indigenous lands, and killed thousands of indigenous people in the process. The government’s motto at that time was “to occupy not to surrender”, and some migrants invited by the government to transform forest into pasture took this to heart. Environmentalists such as Chico Mendes and Dorothy Stang were murdered, in 1988 and 2005, respectively, after confronting farmers.
In recent years authorities have done little to reduce the lawlessness of the Amazon. Since Mr Bolsonaro took office in 2019, he has attempted to decriminalise mining on indigenous lands and promised not to set aside “even one more centimetre for indigenous [people]”. His attempts to rip up environmental legislation have been stalled by Congress and the Supreme Court. But his rhetoric has encouraged criminals to act more freely.
When federal authorities try to intervene, their agents face death threats, as Mr Pereira reported last April. He lost his job at Funai, the government agency responsible for looking after indigenous lands, shortly after taking part in an operation that destroyed 60 illegal mining rafts, boats used to search for gold.
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