Jair Bolsonaro accuses Indian reserves: "There is a lot of land for few natives"

The President of Brazil,
Jair Bolsonaro, he said today in the middle of the
fires in the Amazon, that there will be more
indigenous reserves during his tenure because there is "a lot of land and few natives", as part of his progress towards enabling the nature and environmental reserves of
economic exploitation such as mining and agribusiness.

Bolsonaro bets on a help in the next hours of his colleague from the United States,
Donald Trumpand resume the dialogue with the German Chancellor,
Angela Merkel, having said that he would only speak with the President of France,
Emmanuel Macronwhen this is rectified on the concept of international sovereignty of the Amazon.

In the area of ​​firefighting, police have arrested in recent months a farmer accused of deforesting about 5,500 hectares in an environmental reserve of the Amazon state of Pará, using youth gangs to threaten the prosecutors of the bodies in charge. from the environment.

With a clutter of official information on the fight against fire, the most graphic data on the fire of the month of August in the Brazilian Amazon, with fires intentionally caused by landowners against forests, were provided by the National Institute of Space Research (INPE).

On the 28th day of August, INPE images identified 28,104 sources of burning, including 23% in conservation units and 4% in Aboriginal lands. During the same period in 2018, the number of burned land was 7,974.

Encouraged by the fact that the economy did not go into recession and grew 0.4% in the second quarter against a drop of 0.1% in the first quarter, Bolsonaro spoke with reporters today. and has ratified its confrontation with Macron while maintaining its historical line against the reserves. indigenous

He also said that embbadies are required to reproduce the official version: "Some have not yet my portrait, we see that some still believe in" Lula Libre "," he said. said by paraphrasing the opposition campaign to demand the release of the former prisoner corruption president and whose release can be dealt with quickly by the court.

But for the third consecutive day, Bolsonaro was charged against the policy of the indigenous reserves, which represent 14% of the national territory and are envisaged in the Constitution.

"My decision is not to delineate (provide) more land for indigenous people, those that have been illegally delineated will be re-examined and indigenous peoples want to be part of society," he said.

"It's a lot of land for a small native (with nearly a million in Brazil) and no lobby.What is the interest behind that?" Said Bolsonaro, again insisting on presumed environmental entities that use Aboriginal lands beyond their interests. Brazilian

On the other hand, while investigations into incendiary attacks on natural reserves were progressing, it was learned that Pará police had arrested the businessman from Fazenda Ouro Verde José Brasil. of Oliveira in the city of Goiania.

"He is accused of deforesting the equivalent of 6,000 stadiums in Maracaná in the environmental protection zone of Sao Felix do Xingú, south of the state of Pará, where According to the prosecutor's office, on August 10, landowners celebrated the "Fire Day", burning fields and forests against fines from environmental agencies.

Oliveira is accused of having recruited youth gangs against agents of environmental agencies of IBAMA and CMBIO, whose operational capacity has been reduced this year as a result of the economic adjustment undertaken by the Government on 1 January.

Bolsonaro, however, announced that he would wait in the coming hours for the "news" of Trump, which today received Brazilian Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo and MP Eduardo Bolsonaro on the agenda. , son of the president.

Telam Agency