A group of miners met at dawn on Wednesday, 16, in Itaituba, Pará, to protest against environmental inspections and blocked access to the Chico Mendes Institute (ICMBio) headquarters in the municipality.
In audios that circulate in Whatsapp groups, the miners ask businessmen and other miners to meet in front of the ICMBio and IBAMA base, to protest against the actions to repress crime. Agents of the National Public Security Force present were called. In the municipality, there were records of wooden bridges that were burned.
Itaituba is located on the banks of the Tapajós River. The region is historically known as one of the largest centers of illegal mining in Brazil, both through the use of mining rafts, which suck the riverbed in search of ore, and through the felling of ravines, to wash the land.
The report questioned ICMBio about the local situation. There was no position until the publication of this article.
Last week, the region was the target of an action by the Federal Police. On Wednesday, the 9th, the PF carried out Operation Alerta Amazônia 2, which targeted the illegal deforestation that dominates the Altamira National Forest, in the municipality of Itaituba, in Pará.
The operation involved the execution of three search and seizure warrants, one in São José do Rio Preto (SP), one in Itaituba and another in Santarém, Pará. 30.062 million, considering the estimated costs for repairing environmental damage, in addition to the reimbursement of the economic benefit obtained from the crimes.
Garimpeiro uprisings intensified under Jair Bolsonaro, with several invasions of IBAMA and ICMBio units in the last three years. The president, who came to say that he was an enemy of environmental inspectors, has already stated that “it is not fair, today, to want to criminalize the prospector in Brazil”.
This week, in a direct action to support garimpeiros, President Jair Bolsonaro published a decree that creates the Program to Support the Development of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining, “Pró-Mape”. In practice, it is an action to support gold mining, especially in the Amazon region, a practice that is mostly marked by the illegal extraction of gold and precious stones.
The decree signed by Bolsonaro aims to “propose public policies and encourage the development of artisanal and small-scale mining”, to stimulate “regional and national sustainable development”.
A day later, the decree was questioned in the National Congress. Through a draft legislative decree filed this Tuesday, 15, deputy Reginaldo Lopes (PT-MG), accompanied by all other party members, asked for the suspension of Bolsonaro’s act.
According to Lopes, who is the leader of the PT party, the presidential decree institutes a series of measures that, in practice, “may represent an increase in potentially harmful mining activities in the region” of the Amazon, with incentives for predatory mining and invasion of protected areas.
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