August 5, 2019, Strategic Culture Foundation (Russia)
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/08/05/how-bolsonaro-maintaining-brazils-exploitation-local-international-levels/
Despite pleas for protection against miners invading their territory,
the indigenous tribes are unlikely to find recourse from the authorities.
Bolsonaro has stated his decision to open natural reserves for exploitation as
the reason behind what he terms “approximation with the United States.”
The constant declarations by
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to open the Amazon for natural resources
exploitation is putting both land and indigenous communities in peril. On
Saturday, the Waiãpi indigenous reserve was invaded by a group of heavily armed miners.
Earlier in the week, indigenous leader Emyra Waiãpi was stabbed to death. The
indigenous tribes are pointing towards Bolsonaro as the instigator and enabler
of violence targeting their people.
Despite pleas for protection against
miners invading their territory, the indigenous tribes are unlikely to find
recourse from the authorities. Bolsonaro has stated his decision to open
natural reserves for exploitation as the reason behind what he terms “approximation with the United
States.”
A recent study has attributed the destruction of
Brazil’s environmental policy to Bolsonaro and the political power of the
ruralists – an influential agribusiness association in Brazil which favours the
dispossession of indigenous people from their land. Under Bolsonaro, ruralists
and former generals
