I would be interested in learning the reasoning behind the closure of 60% of the monitoring stations in that one area of indigenous activity.
Well, here is your answer: "President Temer, who is deeply unpopular, has sought support from powerful agricultural, ranching and
mining lobbies to push economic changes through Congress and shelter him from a corruption investigation."
Temer is the third corrupt president in a row. Typical Brazil, corruption that involves buying people off or just killing them if they get in the way. It starts at the top and trickles down the society. A 'toxic' side affect of the democracy that started in 1985. I'm sure some mining company is behind this scandal. It could be domestic or international. Who really cares about a bunch of Indians? Their reasoning goes. We here in the U.S. certainly didn't on our Westward movement during the 1800s. The U.S. Army Cavalry slaughtered thousands of North American Indians in the process (men, women, and children).
Not just gold, but diamonds and other precious stones which the Amazon is full of.
“If the investigation confirms the reports, it will be yet another genocidal massacre resulting directly from the Brazilian government’s failure to protect isolated tribes — something that is guaranteed in the Constitution.”
How is Brazil going to do that on an area half the size of Alaska? Triple canopy jungle, and the Indians are like a needle in a haystack. Those Indians should be relocated to a reservation for their own protection. Believe me, this issue is not even a 'blip' on the radar of problems that the country is currently facing. Sad but true...
Bring the military back into power and watch the corruption disappear. Not to mention the Indians and the Amazon would be better protected and monitored. Democracy does not work in Brazil or Argentina for that matter. Brazil was a better/safer country from 1964 to 1985.