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Although Bolsonaro’s government tries to blame the impoverished strata of society for the devastation of biodiversity in Amazon and throughout Brazil – saying that small farmers and communities are responsible for setting land on fire and losing control of it – an interesting report by The Intercept Brasil showed that, behind the burning forests and deforestation are powerful figures: \u201cPublic data from Ibama, the federal government agency responsible for preserving the environment, compiled and analyzed by De Olho nos Ruralistas<\/a>, show that the 25 largest deforesters in the country’s recent history are large companies, foreigners, politicians, a company linked to a banker, frequenters of social columns in the Southeast region and three slave labor exploiters\u201d.<\/p>\n This is part 4 of the introduction to the story \u201cWhat really happens in the Amazon Forest\u201d. Browse content:<\/strong><\/p>\n Part 1 (central page): What really happens in the Amazon Forest<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span> And also see: The siege explained on a map<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n It is in the midst of all this – land grabbing, fires, soy and its pesticides, megaprojects that destroy ways of life – that communities resist, even though they are under extreme pressure and life threats. These Communities and Peoples are also transformed into abstract entities, yet there are simple people, of common habits, taste for football, family lunch, bathing in the river, resting in a hammock. Small farmers, fishermen, extractives from legal reserves, quilombola communities and indigenous peoples who wanted, if they could chose, to just continue their lives in the place to which they belong and to maintain the forest with which they live and on which they depend standing.<\/p>\n Another world is not possible, there is only this one. Therefore the struggle Against all of that, the struggle is most needed: daily, an ant work, little by little – as difficult and brutal as it is necessary and rewarding. This is what the stories we heard on the recent visit to the Tapaj\u00f3s region in Par\u00e1 show. They show the siege of capital in the Amazon, with land grabbing, the advance of megaprojects over entire communities, the attack on the forest and rivers and the threats to those who oppose it, standing up in defense of traditional ways of life and the rights of peoples. It is not for nothing that these people are called Guardians of the Forest: we would not have thought of a fairer name.<\/p>\n Return to the central page \u201cWhat really happens in the Amazon Forest<\/a><\/span>\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Also read parts 2 and 3 of the introduction:<\/strong>
Part 2: Who is favored by Bolsonaro’s responses to the fires?<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span>
Part 3: The \u201cwin-win\u201d of companies with the financialization of nature<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span>
Part 4: [you are here] But after all, who is behind these crimes?<\/strong><\/p>\n
<\/b>There is no possible coexistence with the infinite destructive desire of capitalist expansion: its poison runs through the surroundings, the lakes get polluted and dry up, the land is contaminated, people are expelled from their territories, attacked, cowardly murdered. Bolsonaro’s hate speech and the environmental and agrarian dismantling policies, in defense of the interests of agribusiness and foreign extractive industries, materialize in violence. For example: the murders of indigenous people grew 22.7% in 2018.<\/p>\n
– Who is favored by Bolsonaro’s responses to fires?<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span>
– The “win-win” of companies with the financialization of nature<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n