Visit is part of push by Lula’s government to beat back illegal miners, loggers and poachers who wrought environmental havoc
The visit is part of a high-profile push by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s
Last week special forces operatives from the environmental protection agency Ibama and federal policewhat is expected to be a months-long operation to drive tens of thousands of illegal miners from the Yanomami indigenous territory after claims its 28,000 inhabitants had faced “genocide” under Bolsonaro.
The ministers would also be taken to the spot where Phillips, a British journalist who reported for the Guardian, and Pereira, a Brazilian Indigenous expert, were shot dead on 5 June last year as they traveled by boat down the Itaquaí river.As the activists spoke, the Brazilian newspaper O Globothat the defense ministry planned to launch a “mega-operation” in the Javari valley on the same day as the ministerial visit.
“The threats continued [after Phillips and Pereira were murdered]. The invasions continue. We are constantly being threatened … No one is safe in our region – be they Indigenous people or those we call ‘the whites’,” said Paulo Marubo, Univaja’s president.as well as environmental crime
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