The new information referred to in the statement is a legal procedure opened by the Prosecutor’s Office to determine whether irregularities were committed in the prior authorizations granted by Minister Ribeiro and, therefore, could have caused environmental damage in the region.
Meanwhile, the Prosecutor’s Office maintained that these measures had the objective of preparing one of the proposals widely defended by the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, such as the extraction of minerals in the country’s indigenous regions.
Ribeiro, a general in the Brazilian Army reserve, is one of the main advisers to President Bolsonaro in his capacity as executive secretary of the Defense Council, the presidential consultative body on sovereignty and defense matters.
These authorizations were planned for the analysis of large areas in the northwest of the state of Amazonas, bordering Colombia and Venezuela and that the GSI itself has recognized in this statement that they could be on the limits of these indigenous lands, one of the largest protected areas and with greater biotic conservation.
However, since he was appointed minister of the GSI in January 2019 with the arrival of Bolsonaro, Riberio authorized more than eighty extraction projects that in some cases have benefited companies seized by the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama ), detailed the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper.
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