Brazil: Mining On Indigenous Land

Brazil: Mining On Indigenous Land   Translated from Portuguese, Original Below   Egydio Schwade, 2011   The 12th Meeting of the Special Committee on Mining has just occurred in Brasilia, and as usual they were only invited those interested in the adoption of the Bill of Senator Romero Juca authorizing mining on indigenous lands. The Amazonas state was represented by Deputy Sinésio Campos (PT / AM), ever more attuned to power and their interests and increasingly distant from the cause of the...

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