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Brazilian Agribusiness Boom's Dark Side: Violence and Plunder in the Amazon PDF Print E-mail
2008 - October 2008
Written by Isabella Kenfield   
Thursday, 16 October 2008 03:40

Brazilian Indians from Raposa Serra do Sol As Brazil's economy booms from rising agricultural commodity prices worldwide, conflicts over land in the Amazon - where the agricultural frontier is rapidly expandfing - are also on the rise. At times, the region appears to be ungovernable for the administration of President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva and the governing Workers' Party (PT), which face strong pressure to yield to the interests of regional, national and international agribusiness. 

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written by João da Silva, October 16, 2008
In August, the Associated Press reported that during a meeting at the Military Club of Rio de Janeiro, General Augusto Heleno Pereira, who commands the Amazon region for the Brazilian Army, attacked the federal government's indigenous policy as "lamentable" and "chaotic",


This part is true.

and even suggested that if were ordered to do so, the army would refuse to remove the rice farmers from Raposa Serra do Sol.


Not true.Gen.Pereira did not say this in that seminar at the Military club.Either AP or Ms.Isabella Kenfeld or
both
added a little bit of spice to his statement to make the article more sensational.

Though the authoress of this article lives in Curitiba, I don't think that she reads Brazilian newspapers in Portuguese.Instead she uses AP and Al Jazeera as info sources to write her article!

A Correction
written by João da Silva, October 16, 2008
Not true.Gen.Pereira did not say this in that seminar at the Military club.Either AP or Ms.Isabella Kenfeld or

both

added a little bit of spice to his statement to make the article more sensational.


Should read:

Not true.Gen.Pereira did not say this in that seminar at the Military club.Either AP or Ms.Isabella Kenfeld or both added a little bit of spice to his statement to make the article more sensational.

Joao !
written by ch.c., October 17, 2008
How do you know these "details"

Were you there...at the seminar...in the Military club ?

smilies/wink.gif smilies/cheesy.gif smilies/shocked.gif
Ch.C
written by João da Silva, October 17, 2008
How do you know these "details"

Were you there...at the seminar...in the Military club ?


These days, one doesn't have to be physically present there to know the "details"! smilies/cheesy.gif

This article is full of factual errors which I am not going to point out, because it is a waste of time. An "investigative" reporter is supposed to check back his/her sources of information which the authoress has not done. As you may recall, some months ago I had posted a video clip of the interview that Gen.Pereira gave to a national TV network. The interview was late in the night and probably the writer was not awake or had not yet arrived in Brazil ! But..But.., she could have easily accessed the video clip to hear what exactly the General was trying to say.

Anyway, hopefully she got paid by CENSA to write this article. smilies/wink.gif

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