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Brazil opens vast Amazon reserve to mining
Topic Started: Aug 24 2017, 02:25 AM (113 Views)
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-41033228
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Brazil's government has abolished a vast national reserve in the Amazon to open up the area to mining.

The area, covering 46,000 sq km (17,800 sq miles), straddles the northern states of Amapa and Para, and is thought to be rich in gold, and other minerals.

The government said nine conservation and indigenous land areas within it would continue to be legally protected.

But activists have voiced concern that these areas could be badly compromised.

A decree from President Michel Temer abolished a protected area known as the National Reserve of Copper and Associates (Renca).

Its size is larger than Denmark and about 30% of it will be open to mining.

The mining and energy ministry says protected forest areas and indigenous reserves will not be affected.
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^^^This is how Neoliberalism looks like in Latin America.

Besides:

Fire Sale: Brazil's Temer Government To Privatize 57 Firms
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"When they have nothing to sell, they are going to sell their souls to the devil," former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said.
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Brazil's President Michel Temer and Brazil's Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles launch the new program of the Brazilian state development lender BNDES at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, August 23, 2017. | Photo: Reuters
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Of course, there is Resistance:

Brazil's pension overhaul on back burner, says government whip
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Lawmakers will not take up President Michel Temer’s bill to reform Brazil’s costly social security system until the second half of September at the earliest, the government’s chief whip in Congress said on Monday.

“We haven’t lost sight of it but it is not on the immediate agenda,” congressman André Moura told Reuters in an interview.


Brazil court blocks Amazon mining decree
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A Brazilian court has suspended a government decree that would open up a vast natural reserve in the Amazon to commercial mining.
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The reserve was created in 1984 by the then-military government

In the meantime, a "spectre" is haunting the Brazilian oligarchy... :cool:
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We Have Been Fighting for 500 Years: Indigenous Brazilians Resist Mass Land Expulsion
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The removal of the 720 strong community would displace the people from a territory of 523 hectares, to one of just 1.7 hectares.
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Inhabitants of the Indigenous reserves in the vicinity of Sao Paulo say they are prepared to resist the eviction. | Photo: EFE
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