Por Daniel Camargos |
13/07/21
O painel na parede do plenário da Câmara Municipal de Itaituba, no Pará, tem o desenho de um indígena ao lado de um garimpeiro e de toras de madeira. Boto, tartaruga e onça compõem a imagem. A pintura passa a impressão de uma possível harmonia entre a floresta e o...
By Kátia Brasil, from Amazônia Real |
07/07/21
Aviator and miner José Altino Machado, now 79 years old, was known in the country as the person responsible for the three largest invasions by miners in the regions of Xitei and Surucucu at the Yanomami Indigenous Land in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, in Roraima. With...
By Eduardo Nunomura*, from Amazônia Real |
07/07/21
Romero Jucá (MDB) has been keeping a low profile. He still lives in Brasilia but has been leading a discreet life since he was not re-elected to the Senate in 2018. Since then, he has rarely responded to the press. Staying out of the spotlight is understandable. In...
By Clara Britto*, from Amazônia Real |
07/07/21
In 2021, the spiral of violence that marks illegal mining activities in the Yanomami Indigenous Land (TIY) reached new highs. On May 10, the Palimiu village, on the banks of the Uraricoera River, was attacked by gunfire. The next day, six federal police officers...
By Guilherme Henrique and Ana Magalhães*, from Repórter Brasil |
07/07/21
As he boarded a commercial bus in Boa Vista, Roraima, heading for Manaus, Amazonas, Raimundo had no idea that he was being awaited by Federal Police agents at the bus station. When he reached his destination, he was surprised by the police, who had been investigating...
By Maria Fernanda Ribeiro and Clara Britto, from Amazônia Real |
07/07/21
In the capital city of Roraima, Boa Vista, part of the gold illegally extracted from TI Yanomami circulates freely among dozens of jewelry stores. Rua do Ouro is a traditional center for these small businesses, where many miners go to sell the gold they have...
By Piero Locatelli and Guilherme Henrique, from Repórter Brasil |
07/07/21
It is not just the sale of gold illegally mined from the Yanomami Indigenous Territory that fills the pockets of those associated to gold mines. Pilots and aircraft owners working in the area have also been getting richer, some earning as much as R$ 200,000 a week,...
By Maria Fernanda Ribeiro, from Amazônia Real |
07/07/21
The scene does not buzz with activity like the human ant-farms that were the hallmark of mining at Serra Pelada, in Pará. At the Yanomami Indigenous Land in Roraima, illegal mining destroys the Amazon forest in a more scattered, but no less vicious manner. Gold mining...
