{"id":8841,"date":"2019-08-28T17:42:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T17:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lavozlit.com\/?p=8841"},"modified":"2019-08-28T17:42:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T17:42:15","slug":"amazonia-is-burning-people-take-the-streets-against-bolsonaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/2019\/08\/28\/amazonia-is-burning-people-take-the-streets-against-bolsonaro\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazonia is Burning: People, Take the Streets Against Bolsonaro!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Amazon rain forest is burning. 25,934 fires have been registered from January until August, 2019.\u00a0Half of them in Amazonia.\u00a0Those are the largest figures since 2010.<\/em><br \/>\nBy CSP-Conlutas Media Workgroup<br \/>\nThose fires have nothing to do with draughts.<br \/>\nThey are primarily human made according to Ane Alencar, an expert who has been studying fires in Amazonia for 25 years.<br \/>\nLandowners and Real Estate profiteers are behind the fires.<br \/>\nAne Alencar explained that first they cut the trees, leave them to dry for 1 or 2 months and then put them on fire.<br \/>\n<strong>Plots To Burn The Rainforest<\/strong><br \/>\nGlobo rural, a mainstream news website, denounced that a group of 70 landowners and Real Estate profiteers pushed for a \u201cDay of Fires\u201d on August 10-11 through a whatsapp group.<br \/>\nThat day alone 400 fires \u201cemerged\u201d along the road BR-163 in the city of Altamira, Para State, in Amazonia.<br \/>\nBrazilian journalist Alvaro Pereira Junior confirmed the criminal action on the spot.<br \/>\nFurthermore, he noticed that the Brazilian Agency in charge of rainforest preservation has only 3 employees in Altamira, a city which has the second largest rural area in the world and one of the most devastated areas in Amazonia.<br \/>\n<strong>Fires Devastate Environment, Land, Forest and People<\/strong><br \/>\nThese fires alone are responsible for 50% of all greenhouse gas emissions from Brazil.<br \/>\nAlong with soil and forest devastation, these fires jeopardize 10% of all world biodiversity.<br \/>\nHuman health is also affected. The fire gases strike both human lungs and heart.<br \/>\nSao Paulo, the largest city in the Americas, was covered by polluted clouds on August 19, which turned the afternoon into evening.<br \/>\n<strong>Bolsonaro Guilty<\/strong><br \/>\nBrazilian president Jair Bolsonaro worked to cover-up the criminal destruction of the rain forest.<br \/>\nSince in office, president Bolsonaro has stood openly in favor of capitalist \u201cdevelopment\u201d at the expense of both ecology and the peoples of the forest (Native Brazilians, rubber tappers and riverside dwellers).<br \/>\nAll Federal agencies in charge of fighting back deforestation and for Native Brazilians rights are under attack.<br \/>\nOn top of that, Bolsonaro asked Israeli help what means that he does not intent to really stop the fires.<br \/>\nIsraeli help for Brumadinho landslide after a dam collapse resulted into complete failure.<br \/>\nPresident Bolsonaro wants to revive the politics of the Military Dictatorship towards Amazonia.<br \/>\nFor the dictatorship, Amazonia was an empty space void of people.<br \/>\nIn 1966, the dictatorship launched the Amazonia Operation, explains Par\u00e1 Federal University professor Gilberto de Souza Marques.<br \/>\nThey wanted to bring international capitals in order to colonize the area at the expense of both the rainforest and locals.<br \/>\nThey sponsored major capitalist corporations to take over the lands.<br \/>\nThese corporations worked with loggers to carry out both mining and agrobusiness projects.<br \/>\nPoverty and devastation were the results.<br \/>\n<strong>People\u2019s Demonstrations Fight Back<\/strong><br \/>\nBolsonaro stand was exposed by the media and opposed by the working people in streets.<br \/>\nPeople\u2019s demonstrations were carried out in and outside Brazil on August 23-25, 2019.<br \/>\nEven French president Macron, backed by French landowners, tried to take advantage of the people\u2019s outrage putting pressure on Bolsonaro administration.<br \/>\nThe fact is, however, that neither Macron nor any capitalist governments or corporations can be trusted in this struggle to defend the Amazon rainforest.<br \/>\nThe Peoples of the Forest \u2013 indigenous peoples, rubber tappers and riverside dwellers \u2013 are the ones who have been living in harmony with the rainforest for 10 thousand years.<br \/>\nTheir struggle in defense of the rainforest is in the interest of the international working class.<br \/>\nCSP-Conlutas calls the working class and the youth internationally to stand in solidarity with the People\u2019s of the Forest for the preservation of the Amazon rainforest and against Bolsonaro administration and capitalist corporations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amazon rain forest is burning. 25,934 fires have been registered from January until August, 2019.\u00a0Half of them in Amazonia.\u00a0Those are the largest figures since 2010. 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