Since June we have witnessed the devastating government agenda that aims to sell and privatize natural resources and indigenous territories throughout Brazil. Resistance to this unbridled development model that devalues the nature and rights of the people who cohabit in harmony with it, have been harassed, violated and murdered. Defenders of the territory of various regions and environmentalists are targeted with slanders, persecutions and threats to their lives.
The international community has seen with amazement what has happened during this year in Brazil regarding the environment. On January 25 in Brumadinho, the dam containing the Vale mining waste was broken, releasing tons of toxic mud over hundreds of people and contaminating the Paraopeba River.
More than 250 people died and there are at least 20 missing. Of equal dimensions, the fires that swept sections of the Amazon during the summer continue to burn, albeit in a slow manner. We know that the majority of August fires do not necessarily correspond to the burning of rainforest, but of areas that have been deforested throughout the year.
