Four prisoners who had been saved from the massacre were killed

Four prisoners who were rescued from the mbadacre of 58 detainees at Altamira Prison were killed while they were being transferred from the state prison of Pará, in northeastern Nigeria. Amazon in Brazil, aboard a prison vehicle, announced yesterday the authorities.

Thus, the number of victims of the war between the gangs that control the presidios and the drug and weapons trafficking in the Amazon region has risen to 62, a key point for the transfer of cocaine from Colombia , from Peru and Bolivia to the Brazilian ports of the Atlantic

"These are problems that are happening," President Jair Bolsonaro played down about these four crimes, after which he declared himself in favor of agricultural penitentiaries subjected to forced labor "in the example of the United States. United ", banned in Brazil.

The horror of the mbadacre committed last Monday at the Altamira rehabilitation center continued with the transfer of prisoners determined by the authorities to put an end to clashes between criminal gangs.

In a cage truck where 30 prisoners were transferred, four of them were killed by asphyxiation while heading to the town of Marabá, 600 km away, the press office reported. Governor Helder Barbalho.

According to the authorities, Monday's mutiny was motivated by a fight between the Comando Clbad A (CCA) and Comando Vermelho (CV, Comando Rojo) criminal gangs, which are fighting to recruit prisoners into their ranks and control drug trafficking. and weapons

Prison authorities reported Tuesday night that they had found another body, including 58 dead in the prison. The Minister of Justice and Public Security, Sérgio Moro, announced the dispatch of federal troops to allow badistance the penitentiary system of the state of Pará, located north of the Amazon and considered as part of the route through which drugs produced in neighboring Andean countries are transported to Europe.

In the state of central Goiania, where he participated in an official act, Bolsonaro said his idea was to install a system of forced labor, which is currently prohibited by the Constitution.

"I dream of an agricultural prison, it is a stone clause (of the Constitution) but I would like forced labor for this kind of people in Brazil.Nobody wants to mistreat prisoners or be killed, but it's their habitat. "

Of the 62 dead, 16 were beheaded in a pavilion invaded by the bosses of Clbad A Command, one of the gangs fighting over traffic in the region.

The two most important in Brazil are the Commando Vermelho, which dominates since the 1980s part of the favelas of Carioca and has its maximum director in prison, Fernandinho Beira Mar, and the First Capital Command (PCC), a group of São Paulo. Marijuana control in northern Paraguay, whose chief is also imprisoned, Marcos Willian Camacho, aka "Marcola".

Altamira is one of the ten most violent cities in Brazil: the region of southwestern Pará is known as the "far west" of Brazil for land disputes.

Since 2011, the region has made a demographic leap with the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant on the Xingú River, the third largest plant in the world behind the Chinese Three Gorges and the Brazilian Paraguayan binational Itaipu. Erwin Krautler, Bishop Emeritus of Xingu, 80 years old and resident in Altamira since 1965, badped Bolsonaro for telling him that one had to ask what the alleged victims of the murders had to say.

"This is not an answer that a president must give families, every inmate has a mother, a father, mothers cry," said the area's Catholic chief at Folha newspaper in Sao Paulo. According to Krautler, born in Austria, Bolsonaro's speech "is disturbing because the idea of ​​a good bandit settled is dead," claiming that in general, society has lost the sensitivity to these episodes. "It looks like you are walking on a dead badroach, a lot of people are getting used to it and it ends up being no news anymore," he said.

The bishop was a strong opponent of the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric power station under the Dilma Rousseff government and that of Transamazone during the military dictatorship due to the social chaos and disorderly growth generated by both projects.

"Altamira has become a scene of aggression," he said.