BRASILIA (Reuters) – The murders of indigenist Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips were solved because of the strength of organized crime in the Amazon and only had repercussions because they involved a foreigner, Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said on Wednesday. emphasizing that drug trafficking, drugs, weapons, deforestation are a business present in the region.
In an event held by the manager Tag Investimentos, Guedes also defended that Brazil make a security agreement in the region with the United States and suggested that the new president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, would have links with drug trafficking groups.
Guedes contextualized a conversation with a member of the French government in the past about protecting the Amazon when he said that Brazil needed help to take care of the area. Then he started talking about the murder that took place in June.
“Back in the Amazon, the case of Bruno and Dom, in one week everything was resolved. What is it? It’s the business, there’s a business there, drug trafficking, drugs, weapons, illegal deforestation, there’s a business there. If I had killed just one Brazilian, no one would say anything and pretend they didn’t see it”, he said, highlighting the international repercussion of Dom being British.
“Then everyone started looking. When he looked, naturally the drug gang called and said ‘introduce yourself now’… ‘but it wasn’t me’… ‘it’s going to be you, even if it wasn’t, you go, if you accuse yourself, you and your brother, if you present it, take the corpse’… ‘we hid it, we don’t know where to find it anymore, it’s very hidden’… ‘go there, find everything’. In a week it was all clear,” he added.
The minister stated that Brazil should do as Colombia did and close a security agreement with the US government.
“When Colombia made this agreement, the drug traffickers all came to Brazil. Now the president of Colombia is a guy more connected to this group, he has already said that he is going to give amnesty for that, so the group will go back there because we are going to make an agreement with the Americans now to clean the bush”, he said.
(By Bernardo Caram)
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