Not only have land grabbers , illegal loggers and big ranchers been given immunity ‘on the nod’ and urged to attack and murder locals and indigenous and burn the forest.. but also, in this case, the police and army are acting illegally on behalf of the local corrupt oligarchy.. Bolsonaro should be tried for crimes against humanity and the planet.
(edited translation) Last week, the National Army, and the Military Police Tactical Force evicted 400 families from the Boa Esperança Camp in Porto Velho, Rondônia.
The residents report that the military acted violently and set fire to the area, arresting Delson Pinto de Souza, a farmer who has been harassed and persecuted for years and has legal ownership of the Boi D’Água area where the Boa Esperança camp is located.
The families were not squatters, De Souza allowed the homeless to build the camp on his land but says that land grabbers in the region have persecuted him as a result. In the past, agents of the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio, administrative arm of the Ministry of Environment) have threatened the camp in attempts to force the people off their land.The lawyer representing the displaced families, Ermogenes de Souza, has also been accused of being a mastermind in the land occupation simply for providing legal guidance. According to him, the displaced people were taken to a school in Rio Pardo after being evicted, displaced from their only means of subsistence and not knowing how they will eat.
A neighbor exposed the state’s priorities perfectly in an audio clip sent to the newspaper A Nova Democracia: “I am concerned about these things because we need so much , and what we hear is the whining that you have no money. And suddenly, for these things [eviction] you have plenty of money. For repression you have money. But there is no money for education, no money for meals, no money to help in [small] agriculture, no money for land regularization, but for repression there is money. I do not understand this!”
insert: Two more local leaders of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) died after being shot in the Dom José Maria Pires camp, where they lived 
with 450 families in the state of Paraíba (northeast Brazil), the collective said Sunday. and the Office of the Prosecutor
“The victims are Rodrigo Celestino and José Bernardo da Silva (known as Orlando), both coordinators of the camp, which shows the character of a crime to intimidate the struggle for land,” the MST said in a statement.
Just two days later the Attorney General of the Republic, Raquel Dodge, requested that investigations of deaths and torture in the state of Rondônia, resulting from the severe agrarian conflict in the region, be turned over to the federal government. The state of Rondônia is second only to Pará in the number of killings related to land disputes.
Dodge mentions that the state government of Rondônia has not carried out sufficient investigations of murders and has allowed the violence against local people to continue with impunity. She also highlights the role that criminal organizations have in the violence, acting on behalf of stronger groups to maintain control over land.
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The statement from Dodge is revealing in that the federal government is openly admitting the state’s inadequate response to torture and murder of poor people, suggesting a certain level of collusion with the latifundio and the paramilitary gangs that serve them. However, her words mean ñittle due to President Jair Bolsonaro’s open support for violence against poor landless people.
In April he announced a bill that would exempt landowners from punishment when they shoot occupying homeless people and treat the struggle for land as terrorist activity.
The anti-people violence in the Brazilian countryside has killed and displaced a great many poor farmers and caused untold suffering, however it has also steeled the homeless in the struggle for land. The poor and landless hunger for an end to the old semi-feudal order of exploitation and dispossession and are taking up the fight for revolution to meet these ends.
Brasil: Ejercito y Policía Militar Desalojan a los Campesinos en Porto Velho
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Por Alejandro Peña La semana pasada, el ejército reaccionario, la Fuerza Nacional y la Fuerza Táctica y la Policía Militar desalojaron a 400 familias campesinas del campamento de Boa Esperança en Porto Velho, Rondônia. Los residentes informan que los militares actuaron violentamente e incendiaron el área, arrestando a Delson Pinto de Souza, un campesino que había sido hostigado y perseguido durante años y tiene la propiedad legal del área de Boi D’Água donde se encuentra el campamento de Boa Esperança.
De Souza permitió a los campesinos construir el campamento en su tierra, pero dice que los acaparadores de tierras en la región lo han perseguido como resultado. En el pasado, agentes del Instituto Chico Mendes para la Conservación de la Biodiversidad (ICMBio, brazo administrativo del Ministerio del Medio Ambiente) han amenazado el campamento en un intento de obligar a los campesinos a abandonar sus tierras.
Brazil: There is war in Amazonas. When Notre Dame burned, the world’s media reported on every moment and many billionaires rushed to rebuild it, even foreign governments offered their financial aid. At the moment, the Amazon, the lung of our planet, is burning. It’s been burning for 5 weeks and the world is watching and silent, and …/continues
El abogado que representa a las familias desplazadas, Ermógenes de Souza, también ha sido acusado de ser un autor intelectual en la ocupación de la tierra simplemente por brindar orientación legal. Según él, los campesinos desplazados fueron llevados a una escuela en Río Pardo después de ser desalojados, desplazados de su único medio de subsistencia y sin saber cómo comerán.
Un campesino vecino expuso perfectamente las prioridades reaccionarias del viejo estado en un clip de audio enviado al periódico revolucionario A Nova Democracia: “Estoy preocupado por estas cosas porque necesitamos mucho, y lo que escuchamos es el quejido de que no tienes dinero. Y de repente, para estas cosas [desalojo] tienes mucho dinero. Para la represión tienes dinero. Pero no hay dinero para la educación, no hay dinero para las comidas, no hay dinero para ayudar en la agricultura [pequeña], no hay dinero para la regularización de la tierra, pero para la represión hay dinero. ¡No entiendo esto!”
Solo dos días después, la Fiscal General de la República, Raquel Dodge, solicitó que las investigaciones de muertes y torturas en el estado de Rondônia, resultantes del conflicto agrario en la región, fueran entregadas al gobierno federal. El estado de Rondônia es el segundo después de Pará en el número de asesinatos en campos agrícolas relacionados con disputas de tierras.
Dodge menciona que el gobierno estatal de Rondônia no ha llevado a cabo suficientes investigaciones de asesinatos y ha permitido que la violencia contra los campesinos continúe impunemente. También destaca el papel que las organizaciones criminales tienen en la violencia, actuando en nombre de grupos más fuertes para mantener el control sobre la tierra.
La declaración de Dodge es reveladora en el sentido de que el gobierno federal admite abiertamente la respuesta inadecuada del estado a la tortura y el asesinato de campesinos pobres, lo que sugiere un cierto nivel de colusión con el latifundio y las pandillas paramilitares que los atienden. Sin embargo, sus palabras suenan huecas frente al apoyo abierto del presidente Jair Bolsonaro a la violencia contra los campesinos pobres sin tierra. En abril anunció un proyecto de ley que eximiría a los terratenientes del castigo cuando disparan contra campesinos ocupantes y tratan la lucha por la tierra como una actividad terrorista.
La violencia contra las personas en el campo brasileño ha matado y desplazado a muchos granjeros pobres y ha causado un sufrimiento incalculable, sin embargo, también ha ayudado a los campesinos a luchar por la tierra. Los campesinos pobres y sin tierra anhelan el fin del antiguo orden semifeudal de explotación y despojo y están luchando por la Nueva Revolución Democrática para alcanzar estos fines.
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