Spy Bishops in Brazil | The synod on the Am …

The government of Brazilian President, the far-right Jair Bolsonaro, fears that his policy against the demarcation of indigenous lands and NGOs fighting climate change will be blamed during the Synod on the Amazon, which will be held at the Vatican in October.

General Augusto Heleno, head of the Institutional Security Cabinet (GSI), told the Brazilian newspaper Estado de San Pablo that the alert to the government came from reports of the Brazilian intelligence agency reporting recent meetings of Brazilian cardinals with Pope Francis. at the Vatican to discuss the realization of the Synod. According to this information, the GSI military baderts that Church sectors allied with social movements and left-wing parties in Brazil intend to take advantage of the bishops' meeting to criticize the Bolsonaro government and obtain an impact. international. "We believe that it is an interference in an internal case in Brazil," said the official.

According to the right-wing team, the Brazilian Catholic Church is a traditional ally of the Workers Party (PT). They believe, according to Heleno, to affirm in the Paulista morning, that in the face of the withdrawal of the left parties, the church articulates now to influence the debates carried out previously by PT to the interior of the country.

Gilberto Carvalho, one of the PT leaders and former government minister of Dilma Rousseff, said yesterday that the government's decision to spy on bishops exposed Brazil to international ridicule. "As a Brazilian, I feel embarrbaded," he said.

Bolsonaro, during one of his first steps as president, transferred the demarcation of Indigenous lands and the Forest Monitoring Service to the Ministry of Agriculture's National Indian Foundation. The president, who also encouraged the control of NGOs, also supports the development of agribusiness on indigenous lands – restricted by law – and refuses to allocate more territories to these communities.